1. Anatomy of a Game CTIN 463 John Hight john_hight@playstation.sony.com 310-404-9880

2. What’s on tonight? Concept, continued Game Design Guest Speaker

3. Genres

4. Shooters single character wielding various projectile weapons and firing at enemies first-person shooters (FPS) third person shooters

5. Fighting two combatants striking each other with fists, kicks, and handheld weapons combinations of button presses activate special moves

6. Role-Playing Games (RPG) customize characters by selecting race, class, and skills adventuring and killing monsters to gain loot and experience points

7. Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) thousands of simultaneous players in the same game world subscription fee, player vs. player (PVP)

8. Survival-Horror adventure and survival

9. Sports reproduce the rules and look of popular sports

10. Racing / Driving driving a vehicle on a track or through city streets

11. Vehicle Combat driving and shooting at each other

12. Real-time Strategy (RTS) command an army base building resource gathering

13. Action- Adventure exploration and problem-solving linear story

14. Platformer character leaps from one platform to another fight enemies and collect power-ups

15. Flight Sims

16. Life Simulations control aspects of the non-player characters’ environments build a civilization or maintain a healthy balance

17. Retro-arcade mimic the style and pacing of coin-op video arcade games from the 1980s

18. Party Games Multiple players mini-games

19. Puzzle / Maze

20. Open World / Sandbox freedom to travel throughout the world missions or quests

21. Concept Primary / ApproverSecondary / Contributor High concept, premise, game description, USPs Design DirectorDesigners, Writers, Producer Edit/format proposal, estimated budget and schedule ProducerAssociate Producers Concept art, storyboard(s), presentation (Powerpoint slides, reference video and images) Art DirectorArtists Review of concept, interactive mockup Technical DirectorProgrammers Pitch to publisher/managementDesign Director, Producer Art Director, Technical Director

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