About this course: Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it. In this course, we will explore game worlds in existing games and study the art and influences that inform their themes and styles. We will also investigate key components of environment and level design as well as strategies designers use to define gameplay or advance it. We’ll also look at navigation and the elements that make your world as real (or unreal) as you want it to be. A weekly challenge will prompt you to explore styles and inspirations for possible game worlds, and you’ll learn effective ways to communicate your ideas from concepts to presentation-worthy proofs of concept.
Taught by: Théotime Vaillant, Instructor, Experimental Animation
School of Film/Video
| Basic Info | Course 3 of 5 in the Game Design: Art and Concepts Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Reading: About this course
- Video: Properties and Rules
- Video: Story, the vertical spine
- Reading: Causes and Consequences
- Video: Making a game world
- Reading: Considering Game Worlds
- Reading: Example: Week 1 Assignment
- Discussion Prompt: Finding Inspiration
- Video: Aesthetics & Gameplay
- Video: Clockworks
- Video: Questions
- Video: Back to the rulebook
- Video: Make it yours
- Video: Shuffle your ideas
- Reading: Strategies for shuffling your ideas
- Reading: Example: Week 2 Assignment
- Video: Level Design
- Video: Bordering the World
- Reading: The Bigger Picture
- Video: The Garden
- Video: Navigation and Time
- Reading: Two types of navigation
- Reading: Level design in local spaces
- Discussion Prompt: Tools of the Trade
- Video: Moveset
- Video: From point A to point B
- Video: Linear vs. Non-Linear
- Video: The Grey Box
- Reading: Example: Week 3 Assignment
- Video: Anchoring the world down
- Video: An Atmosphere
- Video: Lighting is key
- Reading: In the Shadows
- Video: Colors
- Reading: Color your world
- Video: Final Round
- Reading: Example: Week 4 Assignment
- Reading: Course Credits
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| Earn a shareable Course Certificate | Available |
My personal area of interest in games has always been game design, level design, character design, story writing and world design. When I found this course, I thought it would involve a lot of art work and 3D modelling. I am not so artistic, but when I started to watch videos and complete assignments, it gave me a lot of confidence. It also motivated me to improve my artwork after I completed the course. I learnt three things - 1) first and foremost describe your world in theory with all the intricate details 2) don't create your game world from void, seek inspiration for art from other games or media 3) proceed with the art work and 3D modelling
cool class, I`ve learned some principles to create game world from this class
Having to identify what makes other worlds interesting is really helping me focus on what makes my game interesting. I Really do think this course helped me out a lot as I was struggling to land ideas into a concrete explanation. Thanks a lot for the course.
You could improve it a little more making the videos more dynamic.