Introduction to Video Game Design

Overview

“In this lesson you will see the most important genres that exist in the industry. Knowing and analyzing them correctly is important when creating video games.”

In this video lesson Arturo Monedero Alvaro addresses the topic: Genders, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Game Design. Learn how to create a game design document, the first step to making your video game ideas come true.

Partial transcription of the video

“GENDERS In this lesson we talk about the genres in the video game industry. Yes it's true that in the past in the first games those mechanics were much more defined and it was much easier to differentiate what type each one was. Today that border is very diffuse, many games mix genres and we can see action games with puzzle parts, of car racing simulation, it is more complicated to corner them in a specific gender. It is good for us to learn those genres separately so that when we feel comfortable we can intermingle them. When we want to tell a story, we can be clear that we want a mechanic...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Game Design

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 21 lessons (2h 37m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation, Web & App Design

• Areas

  Game Design, Video Games