The Beginning of Game Design

What is Game Design?

Game design is a large field, drawing from the fields of computer science/programming, creative writing, and graphic design. Game designers take the creative lead in imagining and bringing to life video game worlds.


The History of Game Design

Game design has come along way as far as, the way games look and the overall feel of games.  Video game design starts with an idea, often a modification on an existing concept.The game idea may fall within one or several genres.Designers often experiment with mixing genres.The game designer usually produces an initial game proposal document containing the concept, gameplay, feature list, setting and story, target audience, requirements and schedule, staff and budget estimates.










Different types of Game Systems/Platforms


There are many different Game systems for games out there.Here are a list of many different gaming systems also known as game platforms that have came out over the years. Game boy pocket, Game boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Game Cube, the many versions of the Xbox ranging from the first one to the new and improved Xbox One, Also the many different forms of the Playstation ranging from the first one to now the Playstation 4.

WordCloud

This Wordle creation consist of the different

types of consoles that have been made throughout the years.

Game Designing

Going In Depth of Game Design

There are a lot of different aspects that go into designing a game, mainly the team of designers. There is the Lead Designer who gives the other designers their jobs and in-visions what the main concept of the game is gonna be, the Game Mechanics which is the systems designer that designed and balances the games rules, also the Level designer, this person is responsible for creating the games environment,levels, and missions. There are seven different groups which contribute to making a game. These are all people in the different groups that are talented at one thing that helps make the game. Everyone can't do everything, thats why they are split up to make things go faster in the creating process for the game.


The Seven Game Designing Groups

1.World design is the creation of a backstory, setting, and theme for the game
2.System design which is the creation of game rules and underlying mathematical patterns
3.Content design the creation of characters, items, puzzles, and missions
4.Game writing this involves writing dialogue, text, and story
5.Level design is the construction of world levels and its features it also creates mini games
6.The User interface designer constructs the user interactions and feedback interface
7.Audio design involves the process of creating or incorporating all of the sounds that are in the game, like sound effects or voice acting.

       








The Amount of Money Game Designers Make

A Video Game Designer can make a salary that is between $40,000 to $60,000 based on tenure level. Video Game Designers will most likely earn an average compensation of $54,400 annually. Video Game Designers obtain the most salary in Washington, where they earn a compensation of approximately $70,360. People in this career can expect the most salary in Management of Companies and Enterprises, where they earn an average salary rate of $69,890.I looked up how much a game designer in North Carolina would get payed and for a game designer it is a lot of money.

Evolution of Technology

This video is about the evolution of technology through the years and whats to come in the future. It displays different forms of technology in this video that game designing is used on. Also It shows how games used to look in the past vs how they look as of today. In this video there is a clip of a new game called Rise of the Tomb Raider coming-out this year and, a screenshot of the new game coming out in 2016 called Uncharted 4, this is showing how games now are starting to look. This is a perfect way of showing how gaming have evolved.