common video game design subdisciplines are world design, level design, system design, content design, and user interface design. Within the video game industry...

Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game. Game design processes apply to board games,...

A game design document (often abbreviated GDD) is a highly descriptive living software design document of the design for a video game. A GDD is created...

Game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects of video games. Video game art design begins in...

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard...

A video game genre is an informal classification of a video game based on how it is played rather than visual or narrative elements. This is independent...

Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as...

A video game producer is the top person in charge of overseeing development of a video game. The earliest documented use of the term producer in games...

arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and released on May 13, 1976. Breakout was released in Japanese arcades by Namco. The game was designed...

Berzerk is a video game designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. The game involves a Humanoid Intruder...

player from all sides. Level design or environment design, is a discipline of game development involving the making of video game levels—locales, stages or...

Video design or projection design is a creative field of stagecraft. It is concerned with the creation and integration of film, motion graphics and live...

A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games which generally includes relevant libraries and support programs...

In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics define how a game works for players. Game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide player...

A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that provides players a great degree of creativity to interact with, usually without any predetermined...

Since the origin of video games in the early 1970s, the video game industry, the players, and surrounding culture have spawned a wide range of technical...

will be required to create the game, split into different roles. People who write video games are part of the design team, during pre-production, and...

Inside is included on multiple lists of the greatest video games of all time as compiled by game journalists. Inside is a puzzle platformer. The player...

history of video games. It has also been used in scholarly research since its release, including for machine learning, video game aesthetics and design, and...

Video game monetization is a type of process that a video game publisher can use to generate revenue from a video game product. The methods of monetization...

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game...

A video game genre is a specific category of games related by similar gameplay characteristics. Video game genres are not usually defined by the setting...

was a sci-fi player-versus-player hero shooter video game played from a first-person perspective. The game featured a variety of human and alien characters...

Sports: Driving) is a 3D racing video game developed by Distinctive Software and published by Broderbund in 1990. The game places emphasis on racing on stunt...

The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford is the first book devoted to the theory of computer and video games. The book attempts to categorize...

"game programmer". A game programmer should not be confused with a game designer, who works on game design. In the early days of video games (from the early...

Façade is a 2005 interactive storytelling video game by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. Conceived by the developers as an "interactive drama", Façade...

Chris Crawford on Game Design (ISBN 0-13-146099-4) is a book about computer and video game design by Chris Crawford. Although initially intended to be...

Narc (stylized as NARC) is a 1988 run and gun arcade video game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics and programmed by George Petro, Todd...

shooter game developed and published by Ghost Story Games. It is Ken Levine's first video game since BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea in 2014. The game is...