Game Design and Development: Video Game Character Design
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How and why do video gamers identify with the characters they control? Find out with this introduction to character design.
Free Online Course with optional Certification.
About this Course
This online course shows you how to approach character design for video games, giving you important insights into how gamers identify with the characters they control and interact with in-game worlds.
The course encompasses studies of anatomy, graphic design, narrative and gameplay, to provide you with a broad knowledge and understanding of the field of video game character design.
By the end, you’ll discover how studying human nature can help you design characters that gamers will recognise and understand.
game design
game development
character design
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- author = {Robin Sloan},
- title = {Game Design and Development: Video Game Character Design},
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goals
game goals
rules
gameplay rules
narrative segmentation
segmentation of gameplay
character customization
Personal skills
Simulation skills (gaming)
Design, preparation, anticipation, collaboration, hypothesis and assembly of simulations
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