From the course: Game Design Foundations: 1 Ideas, Core Loops, and Goals
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Exercise: The easiest game design exercise in the world
From the course: Game Design Foundations: 1 Ideas, Core Loops, and Goals
Exercise: The easiest game design exercise in the world
- [Instructor] Welcome to the easiest game design exercise in the world. Within the next 10 minutes, you're going to make an entire game from beginning to end. And notice I said a game, not a good game or a bad game, just a game. I've used this exercise with everyone from graduate students to second graders with success. You can't possibly do it wrong. So here's what you're going to need. A sheet a paper, two coins or two similar objects which can represent players. You're going to need a pen and a single die. A digital one is absolutely fine if you want to download an app and if you can't, grab a second sheet of paper, rip it into six pieces, number each, and crumple them up so you can't tell which is which. Today, we're going to create what's known as a race to the end game. So the first step in this is understanding the pattern and that we've all played race to the end games. For board games, think of something like Candyland or The Game of Life. For video games, absolutely any car…
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