Week 6

Okay here it goes…what is meant by game play? It basically means someone taking control of the game. When a player connects with the game it creates game play! Soon after…player takes full control! Then it depends on, what the player does. In the other hand game play also allows the player to decide on purchasing the game after playing the demo.

So who are the leading lights in game design? Well to start with there are loads!! They basically decide if the game is appropriate by checking the game play, graphics, character design, environments etc basically they check the overall and they also check if it will be successful for the marketing environment. They control everything as they are called the leaders LOL! So they basically lead it to success.

So where does game play take place in the modern developer? Erm…Game design will obviously be created first. They will obviously browse ideas before they actually go in to developing the game. I believe they will brainstorm ideas first then create few sketches or concept art and then decided from there. So designing will be the first before they develop.

Is it a single person’s responsibility? Of course not!! Unless it was specially made for the person as a gift anyways….a game is not a single’s responsibility!! During the time when they create the game they think about every individual person of what they will want in the game play which could be done by questionnaires for example. They then take everyone ideas and then merge it together. So it is definitely not a single person responsibility!!

So does different genre include different principles? Do they? Yes!! Absolutely! First of all there are many genre for a game for example, Fighting, Racing, Adventure, Shooting, Fishing etc. for different genre there are different principles!! Obviously…as they won’t add the same style of game plays in a shooting genre to a fighting genre!! In a shooting game I could imagine them focusing on the guns, environment and first person view as all shooting games have first person view!! As a fighting game they will be focusing on the character design and movement of the character etc. so different principles will be focused in different genres.

So what’s important for me during game play? Well first of all the graphics has to be good as I love games that look realistic!! If it doesn’t!! I tend to loose interest as it keeps showing its doll and fake!!!! I know its crazy but it’s me!! However if the graphics is bad but the game play is fun and interesting then it will be fine. So it really depends on the graphics, game play and story line. I love games that involve storyline…