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Level Up! the Book of Great Video Game Design Than I Learned in Working for 25 Years in the Video Game Industry! a Very Famous Game Designer1 flast.indd xxii 5/12/2010 5:10:06 PM ffirs01.indd i 5/12/2010 5:09:59 PM Copyright Information Please note that the following characters are copyrighted to the following corporations: Tennis for Two—This work is in the public domain in Ico © 2001 Sony Computer Entertainment the United States because it is a work of the United Doom © 1993 id software States Federal Government under the terms of Title Darksiders © 2010 THQ 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Syndicate © 1993 Electronic Arts Space Invaders © 1978 Taito Corporation Supreme Commander © 2007 THQ Galaxian © 1979 Namco Warriors © 1979 Vectorbeam Star Wars Arcade © 1983 Atari Inc. Castle Wolfenstein © 1981 Muse Software PAC-MANTM & © 1980 NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. 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The Guide to Great Video Game Design Scott Rogers A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication ffirs01.indd iii 5/12/2010 5:10:02 PM This edition first published 2010 © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Registered office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com. The right of the author to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. 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Set in 10 on 12pt Swiss721BT-Light by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited Printed in the US by RR Donnelley ffirs01.indd iv 5/12/2010 5:10:02 PM To Brenda Lee who always thought this would make a great book. I love you. ffirs02.indd v 5/12/2010 5:10:04 PM Publisher’s Acknowledgments Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Editorial and Production VP Consumer and Technology Publishing Director: Michelle Leete Associate Director—Book Content Management: Martin Tribe Associate Publisher: Chris Webb Assistant Editor: Colleen Goldring Publishing Assistant: Ellie Scott Project Editor: Juliet Booker Content Editor: Céline Durand-Watts Development/Copy Editor: Gareth Haman Technical Editor: Noah Stein Marketing Senior Marketing Manager: Louise Breinholt Marketing Executive: Kate Batchelor Composition Services Compositor: Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited (HK) Proof Readers: Sarah Lewis and Gill Whitley Indexer: Robert Swanson ffirs02.indd vi 5/12/2010 5:10:04 PM Contents Foreword by Danny Bilson xiii About the Author xiv Press Start! xv Acknowledgments: Everything I Learned about Writing a Book xxi Level 1 Welcome, N00bs! 1 A Brief History of Video Games 4 Game Genres 9 Who Makes this Stuff? 12 Programmer 12 Artist 13 Designer 14 Producer 15 Tester 16 Composer 17 Sound Designer 18 Writer 19 Have You Thought about Publishing? 19 Product Manager 20 Creative Manager 20 Art Director 21 Technical Director 21 And the Rest . 21 Level 1’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 22 ftoc.indd vii 5/12/2010 5:10:16 PM viii Contents Level 2 Ideas 23 Ideas: Where to Get Them and Where to Stick Them 24 What do Gamers Want? 28 Why I Hate “Fun” 30 Brainstorming 31 Breaking Writer’s Block 34 Level 2’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 36 Level 3 Writing the Story 37 The Triangle of Weirdness 44 Time to Wrap It Up 48 Creating Characters 50 A Few Pointers on Writing for Kids of All Ages 54 Writing for Licenses 54 Level 3’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 56 Level 4 You Can Design a Game, But Can You Do the Paperwork? 57 Writing the GDD, Step 1: The One-Sheet 60 ESRB Ratings 60 Writing the GDD, Step 2: The Ten-Pager 62 The Rule of Threes 63 Ten-Pager Outline 64 The Game Design Document (and the Awful Truth about Writing Them) 72 Gameplay Progression 76 The Beat Chart 77 Above All, Don’t Be a Schmuck 79 Level 4’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 81 Level 5 The Three Cs, Part 1—Character 83 Personality: Do We Really Need Another Badass? 85 Let’s Get Personal 88 Finally, We Talk about Gameplay 92 Why Walk When You Can Run? 95 The Art of Doing Nothing 99 Might as Well Jump 100 Hoists and Teeters 104 What Goes Up, Must Fall Down 105 Me and My Shadow 106 ftoc.indd viii 5/12/2010 5:10:16 PM Contents ix The Water’s Fine… or Is It? 108 Be Kind to Our Four-Legged Friends 109 Using All of the Parts 110 We Are Not Alone 111 Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? 116 Level 5’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 118 Level 6 The Three Cs, Part 2—Camera 121 Get It Right: Camera Views 121 First Person Camera 127 Third Person Camera 130 Giving Up Control 133 So You’ve Decided to Let the Player Control the Camera 133 So You’ve Decided to Not Let the Player Have Control Over the Camera 135 So You’ve Decided to Let the Player Sometimes Have Control Over the Camera 137 Two and a Half D 137 Isometric Camera 138 Top-Down Camera 139 Special Case Cameras 140 Tunnel Vision 141 Camera Shot Guide 141 Camera Angle Guide 145 Camera Movement Guide 146 Other Camera Notes 148 Always Point the Camera to the Objective 149 Never Let the Character Get Out of the Camera’s Sight 150 Multiple Player Cameras 151 Level 6’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 153 Level 7 The Three Cs, Part 3—Controls 155 Dance, Monkey, Dance 159 Character or Camera Relative? 164 Shake, Rattle and Roll 166 Level 7’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 168 ftoc.indd ix 5/12/2010 5:10:16 PM x Contents Level 8 Sign Language—HUD and Icon Design 171 Health Bar 172 Targeting 173 Ammo Gauge 174 Inventory 174 Score 175 Radar/Map 176 Context-Sensitive Prompt 177 The Clean Screen 178 Icon Has Cheezburger? 179 Don’t Get QTE 183 HUDs, and Where to Stick ‘Em 185 There Are Other Screens Than the HUD 187 The Pause that Refreshes 189 A Final Word on Fonts 195 Level 8’s Universal Truths and Clever Ideas 196 Level 9
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