Game Design Essentials: Tools, Theories and Techniques

Harness the power of game design, psychology and systems thinking to understand your players and how games work.

Created by: Gabriel Chauri
Game Designer

Created by: Game Design Thinking
Academy

What Will I Learn?

• Learn to design games understanding all their constitutive parts and how they connect with each other
• Learn to play games like a game designer (Analytical play)
• Understand Systems Thinking to understand our world and existing games to transfer those experiences into your own games
• Use the Design Thinking method to improve your design process
• Use psychology to understand your players and create more directed experiences
• Create spreadsheet simulations to balance your games
• Use GDD and pitching to communicate with your team and different stakeholders

Requirements

• Be able to access a text editor, slides presentation and spreadsheets
• Having scrap paper and dices would be nice, since we are going to make some board games!

Target audience

• Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences
• Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience
• People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role