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World Design for Video Games

Game Design: Art and Concepts,

Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it. In this course, we will explore game worlds in existing games and study the art and influences that inform their themes and styles. We will also investigate key components of environment and level design as well as strategies designers use to define gameplay or advance it. We’ll also look at navigation and the elements that make your world as real (or unreal) as you want it to be. A weekly challenge will prompt you to explore styles and inspirations for possible game worlds, and you’ll learn effective ways to communicate your ideas from concepts to presentation-worthy proofs of concept.
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Rating 4.0 based on 137 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (42 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Théotime Vaillant
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Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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hard to understand

Very bad lectures: very hard to understand the lecturer (very bad english), no material/knowledge shared only a lot of unanswered hypothetical questions brought up.

Without the subtitles, some parts are very hard to understand.

Substitles are bad, it's hard to understand most of the times what is being said.

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for video games

It has ended but I have the feeling I still have no good idea about what is world design for video games... few specifics and examples Very nice course ^^ Short, simplistic.

Hence you get few pointers on how to design game wold for video games and really case studies in my opinion... A full review of one or two games would have been a great addition.

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really enjoyed

: 3 Really enjoyed it Great course with good material.

Really enjoyed this class.

I really enjoyed the assignments which encouraged me to actually try out the concepts, without getting too hung up on it being perfect.

I really enjoyed the course.Opened my eyes for many things that I didn't gave much though while design my games.

great and informative course :) really enjoyed it It's often not clear the point the professor of this course is trying to make.

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so much

Thank you so much for your willingness to do this MOOC.

Great experience thank you so much!

Love it so much.

I'm not a effective learner so I can't get much from it, but I certainly learn some rules for building world, I would review these contents some days, thank you so much for your teaching!

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video game world

I liked it mostly because of how it explains the ways one can create the video game world we desire and what must be taken into account.

I already had prior knowledge on how to create a video game world that was consistent, but this reinforced what I already knew and took it a bit further.

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it helped

It helped me to established the abilities to create a game-world.

It helped me so much with my own project :D This is an excellent way to learn the steps of approaching BG design.

It helped me understand my worlds better.

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other courses

Unlike the other courses in the specialization, the speaker in this one is not a native English speaker and he mispronounces words a lot.

I think the other courses had a much better framework to understand the topic.

Thanks to this course, with a little help from the other courses in the specialization, I pushed myself to flesh out a lot of the narrative and design components of my game.

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little bit

I was a little bit dissapointed with this course because, in my opinion, it is not structured well, it is just an amount of questions we need to think about.

i really like the material, i feel that i learning the basic of video game development I am all for short videos but here it is a little bit too short... Tehchnically there is about 1h of videos for the 4 weeks of this course and no real documentations to review.

not always

I get that English isn't his first language and that is fine - but the content sometimes feels quite scattered - it is not always clear where one idea finishes and the next one starts, often making it difficult to comprehend what he is trying to say.

It's a bit hard to follow up, since sometimes the examples are not what is asked for in the homework and there's nothing to compare your work to, so the student as well as the grading peers are not always sure what is important in the assignment.

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level design

Sorry for the low review :{ .. i just expected a more organised step by step level design rich content.. i think the instructor clearly has much to give, but the course content isn't organised enough, the speech in the videos is just talking around, some things are repeated again in different parts in a way that causes confusion i think .. i hope this is a helpful review :S and thanks for the course The course teaches everything regarding game design I like this course and thank Théotime for it.

I have eventually got understanding what is the level design and found out root requirements about the location design.

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know what

I still don't know what are the key elements of a game world or how to judge if one world is good or bad or why it is good or bad.

One can't produce anything without know what he would make.

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Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Game Advisor 2 $46k

World Language Teacher 6 $53k

Game Management $59k

World Language Teacher 1 2 $59k

World Languages Coordinator $60k

World Languages Coach $61k

Game Coordinator $61k

Chairperson, World Languages $74k

World Designer $90k

Game Developer 1 $92k

World Languages Teacher 2 $92k

Game Engineer 2 $97k

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Rating 4.0 based on 137 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (42 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Théotime Vaillant
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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