Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems and rules of a game. Games can be created for entertainment, education, exercise...

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

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...

Experience design Fashion design Floral design Game design Graphic design Information architecture Information design Industrial design Instructional design Interaction...

A video game, also known as a computer game or just a game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such...

Illwinter Game Design is the name of a small software company in Sweden composed of Johan Karlsson and Kristoffer Osterman. The company was started in...

tasks of developing a game — programming, graphical design, sound effects, etc. It could take as little as six weeks to develop a game. However, the high...

in-game currency. In video games, loot boxes are commonly associated with gambling. game design The use of design and aesthetics to create a game. game engine...

instruments. From a video game development standpoint, a sandbox game is one that incorporates elements of sandbox design, a range of game systems that encourage...

Nintendo Switch in November 2024. The game received generally positive reviews, with praise for its artistic design, cat gameplay, narrative, original score...

Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific...

grounded in reality or fantastical in design, each with its own set of rules or goals. A computer or video game uses one or more input devices, typically...

Game balance is a branch of game design with the intention of improving gameplay and user experience by balancing difficulty and fairness. Game balance...

roguelike game, which have generally best utilized the early access approach. The roguelike approach also fit well with their past gameplay design goals,...

Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design. New Riders Games. ISBN 978-1-59273-001-8. Adams, Ernest (2013). Fundamentals of Game Design (3rd ed.). San Francisco:...

of Game Design. Prentice Hall. Archived from the original on 2017-12-31. Retrieved 2009-02-11. "The Next Generation 1996 Lexicon A to Z: God game". Next...

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...

card game made by Steve Jackson Games (SJG), inspired by the 1975 book The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. The game has ominous...

or work for a video game publisher to develop a title. Both publisher and developer have considerable input in the game's design and content. However...

Research design refers to the overall strategy utilized to answer research questions. A research design typically outlines the theories and models underlying...

BLACK in 2006 was considered to be a leader in cinematic game design, with strong sound design and destructible environments. In 2007, Portal popularized...

Database design is the organization of data according to a database model. The designer determines what data must be stored and how the data elements interrelate...

and won the award for PC Game of the Year, Best Artistic Design, and Best Use of Sound. GameSpy chose it as the third-best game of the year and gave BioShock...

covering programming, design, audio, production, business and management, and visual arts. Originally called the Computer Game Developers Conference,...

Computer Game Design. Crawford focused on the player's experience and activities required for gameplay. He wrote, "the state of computer game design is changing...

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.: 3  This...

them from action games. In the book Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design, the authors state that: "this [reduced emphasis on combat] doesn't mean...

Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about...

in game design. He is best known for being the original designer of The Sims series, of which Maxis developed the first entry in 2000. The game spawned...