That Blue Square Thing

This is an archived page. It's probably got quite a lot of old stuff on it and may be quite out of date.

Game Designers Workshop

This is based on the BAFTA Game Designing thing. I'm using some of their resources and hosting them here until I can work my way around this.

The aim is to think about different types of games and get some ideas about terminology associated with them.

1 – Different types of games

What are they?

PDF iconWhat do you play? – intro brainstorm

There's a video on BAFTA's YouTube channelwiki link.

PDF iconVocab questions – from the video

PDF iconA game – BAFTA sheet

PDF iconGlossary

2 – Goals and Genres

Some definitions of terms and thinking about more games.

PDF iconOld Skool game examples

PDF icon3Gs and an E slides

PDF iconSheet to work on

There's a Scratch game that can be explored:

Platformer Game

3 – Random Game Remix

A way of creating a random game design.

PDF iconGame remix slides

PDF iconGenre example slides

PDF iconSheet to work on

Here's the random generator

Game Idea Generator onlinewiki link

4 – Pacmania

Needs a better name.

PDF iconPacman slides