What is game design?

So, as we have discussed, many types of game exist and therefore design approach. There are different ways that you can design, implement, and create games. Now, let's take a brief look at how games are made and more importantly, what they are made of:

  1. Generating ideas involves thinking about the story that we want to tell, or a trip that we may take the player on. At this stage, we're just getting everything out of our head and onto paper. Everything and anything should be written, the stranger and more abstract the idea, the better. It is important at this stage not to feel trapped by thinking an idea may not be suitable. Often, the first few ideas that we create are the worst, and the great stuff comes from iterating all ...

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