Game Designer’s viewpoint: Want to be a better developer – play games!
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Communication, systems view, and time management are the most important skills for game developers. To practice communication, one can play MMOs with disliked players. To practice systems view, one should play hardcore, complicated games with long tutorials. To practice time management, one can play sandbox games and try to progress within a set time frame.
![OTHER TOOLS:
Drawing
Frank Ching,
Prof. Emeritus at
the University of Washington
„The active seeing [..] can
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Game Designer’s viewpoint: Want to be a better developer – play games!
- 1. Game Designer's point of view: Want to be a better developer — play! Eugene Shevchenko, GAMELOFT
- 2. Disclaimer All the trademarks mentioned belong to their owners and are used in this presentation only as the educational example
- 3. • 5 years of experience • WAP, Browser, Mobile games About the speaker:
- 4. How long are you in gamedev? • Just going to • Less than 2 years • 2+ years
- 5. Why? Link Link ● Game dev is far away of your dreams of it ● Games can be usefull in learning
- 6. Profit? Game Consumer Game Developer
- 7. Experience takeaway Most important everyday skills: ● Communication ● Systems view ● Time management
- 8. Communication • Wording makes a difference • Context is important • Be constructive! Clipart Senseless and merciless
- 9. COMMUNICATION: Don'ts • Never rage • Listener is not idiot • Bring details only when asked
- 10. COMMUNICATION: What to play? Chinese whispers / Telephone MMORPG raiding
- 11. COMMUNICATION: My experience Guild Wars 2: ● Party dungeons ● One awful player ● But she is a girl, everybody loves ● Challenge: not to butt-hurt
- 12. System view • Complex – is the unity of simple • Any methodology of software development is systematic
- 13. SYSTEM VIEW: Don'ts • Don't overcompicate (KISS) • Don't try to 'fix', when you don't understand
- 14. SYSTEM VIEW: Games Construction set Minecraft
- 15. SYSTEMS VIEW: My experience Dark Souls 2: ● You have to learn under the stress ● You have to remember everything ● More challenge?
- 16. Time management • Skill of completing task due to date • Skill of making precise estimations • Skill of building pipelines with others
- 17. TIME MANAGEMENT: Don'ts • Don't do everything at the last moment • Don't waste time on unimportant (prioritize and optimize) • Don't hesitate to add 'Producers coefficient' to your estimate
- 18. TIME MANAGEMENT: How to evolve?
- 19. TIME MANAGEMENT: Games Planning poker Darkest dungeon
- 20. TIME MANAGEMENT: My experience Albion Online ● You can do everything ● Pick one or level-up for 10 years ● Challenge: stop collecting trash
- 22. OTHER TOOLS: Drawing Frank Ching, Prof. Emeritus at the University of Washington „The active seeing [..] can often lead to better understanding and more vivid visual memories.“
- 23. OTHER TOOLS: Gamer’s diary • Note important / interesting stuff while playing • Develop the rules of noting
- 25. Summary • Communication, Systems view & Time management are the most important skills for a game developer • To practice Communication: play MMO's with the people you don't like • To practice Systems view: play hardcore, complicated games with a 10+h tutorial • To practice Time management: play sandbox games and try to progress inside the time frame