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Game System Dynamics

October 1, 2014 by Lennart Nacke

Welcome to the fourth week of class in the course: Basic Introduction to Game Design. Thanks for coming over from GameCareerGuide if you read my guest post there. Make sure to read the syllabus and course information before you continue. Today, we are going to discuss system dynamics in games. This text follows closely from our …

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Dramatic Elements of Games and Narrative Design

September 19, 2014 by Lennart Nacke

In week 3 of the introduction to game design course, we discuss narrative design, elements of a story and dramatic elements of games in general.

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The formal systems of games and game design atoms

September 12, 2014 by Lennart Nacke

In the second week of my Basic Introduction to Game Design, we talk about games as systems, their formal structure and the elements that make games games.

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What’s the role of game designers?

September 6, 2014 by Lennart Nacke

Today, we are going to discuss the role of a game designer when completing a game and find out a little more about what game design actually is. Game designers craft the core mechanics of a game. This means that they are responsible for deciding how games work.

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Introduction and Course Syllabus

September 4, 2014 by Lennart Nacke

Welcome to the class: Basic Introduction to Game Design. My name is Dr. Lennart Nacke. I help people understand how to design and evaluate games. I am teaching this class in the Fall 2014 at UOIT (INFR 1330). Today, I am going to show you how this course works and how you are going to benefit from the …

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Lean, scientific, effective presentations

October 2, 2006 by Lennart Nacke

In the sixties, Marshall McLuhan already said that “the medium through which information is transmitted strongly influences how the information will be received by its audience.”. Even today some people have not understood that the “medium is the message”. This shockingly came to my mind, when I saw some oral student presentations last week at …

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