Game Design Course 4: still going strong

now we know why modern games are all garbage now at least

Well, the more shit the greater the chanse of a gold nugget

Holla Forums needs to read this slide

Got any good game concepts?

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Metroidvania where you choose between a sword, gun or mixed combat style and adopt perks to compliment your style.
It's a story of two vampires who separated because the MC's love interest hated to be together, but it hurt more to be away. Then they love interest is kidnapped by a mysterious evil scientist, and you must trek through a castle defeating a series of gothic horror themed enemies.

The final boss is your love interest, trying to die by fighting you. You can fight them and kill them to release them from their suffering or you can just dodge their attacks until they give in and resign themselves to living with you. Ideally they have every weapon and/or perk you have.

2D platformer, dodge mechanic, magic power ups/extra weapons like in ol' castlevania.
Some perks; your dodge deals damage when you have the sword out, you deal more damage when you switch weapons, repeated hits on the enemy sends them into a vulnerable state for a few seconds etc.
Enemies include; a knight that you defeat multiple times getting more mechanic or sewed on monster parts from the mad scientist as you fight them.
Male or female character choice, but it literally does nothing but change your model and portraits.

But people should generate content that they themselves enjoy. Like bands that produce the music they like instead of whatever's popular at the moment. If they enjoy their work, it'll show in the final product.

The comment on playtesting is correct, though. I have no idea where playtesters come from, but they have to be some of the most defective fucking people that exist.

The reason why these courses are "free" is because they take your ideas to use for themselves.

Dude, that's the first phase of any brainstorming session. First you cover the wall in shit, then you scrape off the most nasty-smelling patches, condense some of the promising parts, refine them, then you work the ideas into a doable project at last.

i see you've never worked on any project at all ever

Exercise time!
Will post games I get for my group

Here it is!

1. The player struggles with hit detection.
2. No! I must kill the demons!
3. The player struggles with police custody.
4. Kinkyworld.
8. The player struggles to remember that one song.
14. The player leverages "Timing" to safely escort the "Frog" to its pond.
15. People play this?
16. Players curse their neighbors for building on their borders.
18. The player struggles with mediocre acting and writing.
24. The player laments the loss of the fourth RTS iteration.

Kekked heatly

Here is the full list.
Lots of people here didnt even play the games

How are playtesters are defective?

I'm impressed.

Who's the cool one that picked Leisure Suit Larry

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You do not pick the games. We split up in gropus and get a number of games on paper. Full list was put on wall

why has no one mentioned LOSS YET?

people pay for this?
it's just like a workplace mandatory conference, with some industry bureaucracy paid-by-dues guy and his powerpoint presentation he made the night before while drunk. it all reads like a bullshit last minute college assignment.

It is free education here

oh, Finland. "free" as in everyone around you is paying for it. having education stuffed to the doors with people that don't belong there learning junk that doesn't improve them or society has great long term effects, I'm sure.

Why do everyone think it's paid education when it's from fucking Finland?

Kingdom of Loathing did this centuries ago and came to the exact same conclusions.

Club - PvP, what they have labeled as 'killers.'
Diamond - Achievers
Heart - Social/community focused users
Spade - explorers/theorycrafters, because spades are a digging tool

So good job to whoever for being boring, uncreative, and, most of all, unoriginal in their presentation of previously known concepts.

Phases of a game development project.
Anton And Coolpecker devs need this :^)

People's tax dollars go towards this?
That is even worse

It lets you live untill you become a wage slave though

Finally more slides

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zip of all lessons thus far please.

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Check em

Pfft, if you want to be a mediocre developer sure. Or you could take charge and present your ideas and take criticism like a man like every good dev ever

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Final topic for today:
GSME DESIGN DOCUMENTS

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Missed a slide

Wew

I really should read the Doom Bible

Homework is given. Help me make it kekworthy but keep it civil, the teacher is a chill guy

Why do these game design courses have to be so pretentious?

There is nothing pretentious here. Have you been in earlyer threads or actually checked the dropbox materials I provided?

i feel a little sad shitting on you seeing that you're trying to spread the education around.
but with honesty, if you really want to make a game, drop out. nobody I know, closely or distantly, who's done the gamedev college thing has gone on to make their games. the important things they teach can be self taught in a fraction of the time, and almost all of what they teach is educational fluff, padding, and unrealistic nonsense that does you more harm than good.
"those that can't teach" is a truism, do it for yourself or it won't happen.
best of luck!

OP, what school is this?

Doom is simple. That means it has simple guts.