The Art of Game Developing

Wharf Street Strategies
The Epiko
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4 min readJun 19, 2019

Gaming has always caught the attention of a significant population, the reason being that games allow one to escape out of the boredom. However, have you ever wondered what all strategies are adopted to design a game? Taking care of the expectations of the mass audience who not only looks for the aesthetic appearance of the game interface but also look for speed, accuracy, and ability to keep the players engaged over the gaming platform.

Today, game designing has become a completely different area of study and research. For instance, the game developers are interested in creating a better interface for the players while the players are interested in finding a way to get out of boredom by diving into a completely different world that appears more realistic than being virtual.

In this article, we will be focusing on the strategies involved in game developing to meet the expectations of the core players.

Character development

Development of Gaming characters

A gaming character is the main “Hero” of the game; thereby, game developers are required to focus over several parameters like the theme of the game and its compatibility with the gaming characters which are designed after understanding the physical, emotional and behavioral characteristics of the game.

Animation of character

Animation of the gaming characters

Following up the development of gaming characters, the next thing that comes into the picture is the animation of the gaming characters. The quality of the animation is an important parameter to create an immersive and exciting gaming environment like vehicles, street roads, buildings, and other structures. Once a game developer gets a better understanding of how the game should look like, then he will be able to assign the required function to every element which is efficiently involved in the gaming.

Perfect coordination of Animation + Gaming characters

Therefore, both these parameters are equally important in creating an immersive and exciting gaming platform. Besides, these two different parameters must be kept under consideration like the designing concept, the tools, and techniques used in character designing, realistic motion, and the color pattern.

Collective efforts of game designer and game programmer

A game comes into the picture after the efforts of both the game designer and the game programmer. While the game designer takes care of the visual aspects of the game, the game programmer is responsible for the framing of design specifications as provided by the game designer.

Thereby, the codes and integrates all these features into a perfectly playable game. Furthermore, a game programmer maps the terrain of the gaming ecosystem and uses artificial intelligence to establish perfect coordination between the core players and the gaming characters.

Designing

Where to learn the art of game designing?

There are a large number of resources available for learning the art of game designing effectively. For example, there are a large number of books available in the market which are good enough in teaching all the aspects associated with game developing, but, this method may not be as effective as the digital books available over the web that can be updated as per the latest trend introduced in the game developing.

Further, there are a large number of video tutorials available over the internet from where one can understand the ideology involved in the game developing. Also, one must be fluent with the game development tools which are the key to game development.

Summary

Hence, for a better game it is required that both the game programmer as well as the game designer work together to give perfect visuals to the game as well as procure ideal coordination between the gaming elements, thereby make games more enjoyable and fun to play.

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Wharf Street Strategies
The Epiko

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