The famous website Gamasutra has just published one of our article about the potential use of Game Design tools to help designers and programmers communicate within a game development studio. You can read it online:
Keywords : game design tools, industry
This article presents a selection of "formal game design tools" that may be able to bring game design and software engineering closer. Nowadays, game designers can rely on a set of theoretical tools to create video games. These tools are first intended to facilitate the design phase. However, some of them have a strong potential to communicate designers' ideas to the rest of the team, especially to developers. We will study four examples of such tools, before discussing how they
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Keywords : game design tools, communication, industry
Craftyy is a tool designed to ease the creation of videogames without requiring any kind of technical skills. Paired with an online sharing platform, it's designed to foster collaborative game design. Any game created with it is place under a Creative Commons licence (BY-NC). Hence, anyone can pick any of the game hosted on the platform, and easily create its own "remix", then share it again to the plaform. Still under construction, Craftyy needs you to continue. If you are
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Keywords : game design, gaming 2.0
A quick presentation of theoretical tools that can be used to design entertainment games and Serious Games.
Keywords : serious games, game design, tools
This presentation compares several easy to use tools suited to create videogames. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)
Keywords : game design, tools, creation, easy
A small selection of tools suited for game design and realisation, splitted in two categories : 2D and 3D. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)
Keywords : tools