That Blue Square Thing

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