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Reading week 3-Game design

 Reading week 3-Game design



What is a game anyway?: Reading this made me see that theres to just calling a "game" a game because theres a lot more stuff going into making a game, at first when I saw the article I didn't want to read it because I thought most of it would just be common sense, but then I read the Critical Vocabulary section which made me laugh because what is said was true when we describe a new game to someone, one of the ways we do it is by describing them from other games like this game is basically a downgraded Grand Theft Auto or this game is a mix of Call of duty and Rainbow six siege, and it's not an accurate answer at all because the game most likely doesn't even play like the games we would describe it's like, it's a pretty vague and not a very detailed answer, but most people that play games for a while would understand it, but then I was thinking of the point of view of someone that doesn't play games and how would they digest this information.Another section that I liked was the Weakness of definition section for example "Role-playing games just like the article says "they have word game right in the title" but aren't considered games because they don't have a final outcome like most games and then I started to think that would't must of these role-playing games be in the same definition as a sandbox type of game like Minecraft because that game doesn't have a final outcome as well.

The organic nature of game ideation: Reading this article has showed me more on how more in depth the ideas of making actually takes, for example in the first part the introduction section I learned that you don't have to be super creative person to be able to make a game, it doesn't matter how creative a person can be there always going to hit a blank wall were they can't think of anything and why it's good to recruit people "outside their comfort zone", and I also forgot about how there are many creative methods you can use like brainstorming I always thought brainstorming was something that kids did in primary school I didn't know a lot of people in the work place would use brainstorming and another method is brain writing.

Four Basic Methods for Generating Ideas: I always thought that there was only one way of making or generating ideas was too just think and hopefully you'll figure it out and boom you have a nice idea in your head I didn't know how many methods of generating ideas for example Scamper you can use Scamper when your working on a certain genre that you may dislike but it works and brings results and a lot of game designers use this method. And you can go more in depth with Scamper using substitute and adapt.Another method I liked while reading this article was the Ramsey method because I do think it's true that if you look at the small amount of information that you have gotten after looking closely and deeply into it you'll eventually find more information or ideas.



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  1. Bernard Mac Donagh17 October 2020 at 11:25

    Hi David
    Liked reading the post, you relay went into detail on what you found in the reading and you thought on it for me all did for mine was do a summary on what was each article. Ill be sure to try this with my next reading for week 5. Its also very organised I now where one article ends and the next begins.

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