Lecture 3: Where Do Game Ideas Come From?

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MIT CMS.608 Game Design, Fall 2010 Instructors: Philip B. Tan, Jason Begy View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-608-game-design-fall-2010/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61_JVg12Ukxft03EJ7xxdbR The assigned readings introduced two frameworks for designing games: formal abstract design and MDA (Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics). Students play a primitive board game and apply these analytic tools, then modify the rules and repeat the exercise. Related Resources: This section contains documents that are inaccessible to screen reader software. A "#" symbol is used to denote such documents. [CGD] Chapter 2 [CGD] = Brathwaite, Brenda, and Ian Schreiber. Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designers. Boston, MA: Charles River Media/Course Technology, 2009. ISBN: 9781584505808. Hunicke, Robin, Marc LeBlanc, and Robert Zubek. "MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research." In Proceedings of the Challenges in Game AI Workshop at the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. San Jose, CA: AAAI Press, 2004. (PDF)# Church, Doug. "Formal Abstract Design Tools." Gamasutra, July 16 1999. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, a

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