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Intelligent game design is important to the success of a shipped game. This skill path will help you take your game idea and really flesh out the world and mechanics and then document them in your game design document. Once you have everything documented you will prototype levels and mechanics to make sure you find maximum fun. When this is done you will be ready to plan, document, and deliver your ideas to a team of developers that will bring your vision to life.

What You'll Learn

  • Level Design
  • Design Documentation
  • Building a Game Design Doc
  • Modifying a Game Design Doc
  • Building a Level Design Doc
  • Prototyping and making/documenting decisions based on the prototype results.
  • Finding Fun
  • Unity’s Post Processing Stack
  • Building Modular level sets for quick building
  • Integrating with Systems
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    From Pluralsight
    Hours 18
    Instructors Joshua Kinney, Thomas Winkley, Barret Hudson, MJ Johns, Rich Fiore, Michael Baker, Lisa Walkosz-Migliacio, Lisa Walkosz-Miglacio, Joy Horvath, Beatrix Moersch
    Language English
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    Hours 18
    Instructors Joshua Kinney, Thomas Winkley, Barret Hudson, MJ Johns, Rich Fiore, Michael Baker, Lisa Walkosz-Migliacio, Lisa Walkosz-Miglacio, Joy Horvath, Beatrix Moersch
    Language English
    Subjects n/a n/a n/a

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    Game Advisor 2 $46k

    3D Animation/SFX & Game Design Instructor $53k

    Game Management $59k

    Game Coordinator $61k

    Adventures in Game Design Instructor $66k

    Video Game Design Instructor $66k

    Video Game Design Instructor Lead $68k

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    Independent Game Design $79k

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