Acerca de este curso: Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it. In this course, we will explore game worlds in existing games and study the art and influences that inform their themes and styles. We will also investigate key components of environment and level design as well as strategies designers use to define gameplay or advance it. We’ll also look at navigation and the elements that make your world as real (or unreal) as you want it to be. A weekly challenge will prompt you to explore styles and inspirations for possible game worlds, and you’ll learn effective ways to communicate your ideas from concepts to presentation-worthy proofs of concept.
Creada por: California Institute of the Arts
Enseñado por: Théotime Vaillant, Instructor, Experimental Animation
School of Film/Video
| Información básica | Curso 3 de 5 en Game Design: Art and Concepts Specialization |
| Nivel | Principiante |
| Idioma | English |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
| Calificaciones del usuario |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Introduction to World Design
During this first week, we'll start with a brief overview of game worlds and game design. We’ll also examine environments and larger world-based concepts to see how games incorporate a macro-level view of how they progress. At the end of the week, a short assignment prompts you to examine, analyze and comment on games that marked or interested you in terms of their environment design.
4 videos, 4 lecturas
- Reading: About this course
- Vídeo: Properties and Rules
- Vídeo: Story, the vertical spine
- Reading: Causes and Consequences
- Vídeo: Making a game world
- Reading: Considering Game Worlds
- Reading: Example: Week 1 Assignment
Calificado: What(ever) works
SEMANA 2
Do Your Research
Where do you start when designing a world? Where should you begin to look for sparking that creative impulse? This week we will be exploring ideas and presentation techniques for a game’s environment and world design. I encourage you to draw inspiration from other art practices, artists, video games or even your everyday surroundings. The assignment at the end of the week challenges you to present a proposal for a possible world through concept artwork for peer evaluation.
7 videos, 2 lecturas
- Discussion Prompt: Finding Inspiration
- Vídeo: Aesthetics & Gameplay
- Vídeo: Clockworks
- Vídeo: Questions
- Vídeo: Back to the rulebook
- Vídeo: Make it yours
- Vídeo: Shuffle your ideas
- Reading: Strategies for shuffling your ideas
- Reading: Example: Week 2 Assignment
Calificado: Brave New World
SEMANA 3
The Way You Move
How do you move in a video game world? This week we’ll discuss fundamental components and concepts in world and level design. Naturally, these evolve as the gameplay progresses but there are specific strategies you can use to create the finer details in a game environment. At the end of the week, you are challenged to take the previous week’s visual research exercise and expand upon it, giving it shape and volume.
9 videos, 4 lecturas
- Vídeo: Level Design
- Vídeo: Bordering the World
- Reading: The Bigger Picture
- Vídeo: The Garden
- Vídeo: Navigation and Time
- Reading: Two types of navigation
- Reading: Level design in local spaces
- Discussion Prompt: Tools of the Trade
- Vídeo: Moveset
- Vídeo: From point A to point B
- Vídeo: Linear vs. Non-Linear
- Vídeo: The Grey Box
- Reading: Example: Week 3 Assignment
Calificado: Making Spaces
SEMANA 4
A Whole World
Bring your game world to life. In this final week, we’ll be putting down what will eventually define the look, ambience and atmosphere of your world, learning specifically how to convey a mood for a unique and engaging game environment. Go back to your assignment from Week 2 to pull from your inspirations and models. Build on your volumetric model from Week 3 and add details. Define the light, the color palette and the overall visual context of your game space.
6 videos, 4 lecturas
- Vídeo: Anchoring the world down
- Vídeo: An Atmosphere
- Vídeo: Lighting is key
- Reading: In the Shadows
- Vídeo: Colors
- Reading: Color your world
- Vídeo: Final Round
- Reading: Example: Week 4 Assignment
- Reading: Course Credits
Calificado: Bring Everything Together & Stir It Up
Preguntas Frecuentes
Cómo funciona
Coursework
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Creadores
California Institute of the Arts
CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.
Tarifa
| Comprar curso | |
|---|---|
| Accede a los materiales del curso | Disponible |
| Accede a los materiales con calificación | Disponible |
| Recibe una calificación final | Disponible |
| Obtén un Certificado de curso para compartir | Disponible |
Calificaciones y revisiones
Having to identify what makes other worlds interesting is really helping me focus on what makes my game interesting. I Really do think this course helped me out a lot as I was struggling to land ideas into a concrete explanation. Thanks a lot for the course.
The lessons were pretty well designed and the material was sufficient, but (not meant to be rude) it was a bit distracting when the tutor pronounced and accented the words a bit weirdly. Nevertheless, great course.
loved it, great resource material, and great teacher.
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cool class, I`ve learned some principles to create game world from this class