Course description
Introduction to Game Design: Game Systems and Balance
Game designers create the ideas and worlds of games—they design the environment, characters, game mechanics, goals and user experience. Successful game designers do this by applying the fundamentals of game system design and logic.
This course explains what game system design is, how it works, and how it relates to game mechanics, designing rules, and logical thinking and reasoning. Game balance is a crucial component of game design and development, so in this course we will focus on what game balance is and why it is important in terms of its relation to simplicity and complexity, dominant strategies, and skill and chance.
This course also dives into game balancing tools you can use to make your game a success, including risk and reward, physical and mental challenges, gameplay duration, and freedom versus control.
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
Prerequisites
GAD100.2x
Training content
Game system design and logic
- Game system design and game mechanics
- Rules and logic
- Logical thinking and reasoning
Game balance
- The importance of game balance
- Fairness
- Challenge versus success
Game environments
- Simple versus complex
- Dominant strategies
- Skill versus chance
Game balancing tools
- Skills versus chance
- Risk versus reward
- Head versus hands
- Too short versus too long
Course delivery details
This course is offered through LaSalle College, a partner institute of EdX.
4-8 hours per week
Costs
- Verified Track -$139
- Audit Track - Free
Certification / Credits
What you'll learn
- The categories of game mechanics and how to use them
- How to design good rules for your games and how logical thinking relates to game rules
- How to achieve game balance through various tools, including fairness, challenge versus success, simplicity and complexity, dominant strategies, and skill versus chance
- How to use other game balancing tools to affect game design and the user experience
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