Description My favorite game is the game of designing games. You’re unlikely to ever make much, let alone a living, from game design, but there’s a lot to enjoy. This class discusses that side of design as a briefer companion…
Description This is an in-depth treatment of what’s important, and how to effectively conduct and benefit from, game playtesting. Translating the 6.5 hours of videos to words, it’s the size of a small novel (more than 50,000 words). To my…
Description (Note: This course will never be deeply discounted: it is not part of Udemy’s « kamikaze marketing. » If it were, I’d have priced it three or even four times higher.) This is a class about how to design episodes for…
Description[Note: This course exists because my original course « Learning Game Design: as a job or a hobby » more than doubled in size over time, becoming much too large for Udemy’s new structure. That massive course is no longer available, instead…
DescriptionThis brief (4.5 hour) course introduces you to RPG design. (No course of this length can pretend to be comprehensive, of course.) The goal is for you to understand the fundamentals of RPG design (which is a subset of game…
Description This is a brief introduction to game design by Dr. Lewis Pulsipher (see Wikipedia), designer of several published games (e.g. Britannia), retired teacher (computer networking, later game design and game production), and author of the 2012 book « Game Design:…
Description If you’re doing it right, one of the hardest parts of game design is writing clear rules. If you mess it up, your game will be a dud, no matter how good the actual game is – because it…
Description[Note: This course exists because my original course « Learning Game Design: as a job or a hobby » more than doubled in size over time, becoming much too large for Udemy’s new structure. That massive course is no longer available, instead…
