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Unit 1. What is Game Design?

Unit 2. The world of videogames

• Companies and development teams
  • Triple A (AAA)
  • Double A (AA)
  • Indie studios
  • Independent
  • One-person studios
• Job profiles in the videogames industry

Unit 3. What does a Game Designer do?

• What a Game Designer do?
• The Game Designer inside a studio
• How to be a good Game Designer
  • Characteristics of a Game Designer
  • Disciplines that a Game Designer must be familiar with

Unit 4. The history of video games

• Arcade machines
• The emergence of the personal computer (PC)
• Esports: the revolution

Unit 5. Game Design Document (GDD)

• GDD concept
• GDD templates
  • GDD template 1
  • GDD template 2
  • GDD template 3

Unit 1. Game concept

• Rules
• Quick analysis of a game. The three 5’s method
• Game approach
• MDA model

Unit 2. Mechanics

• Mechanics and rules
• Mechanics and systems
• Core mechanics
• Tutoring mechanics
  • Mastering of a mechanic: isolation principle
  • The “ninja” mechanics of games

Unit 3. Dynamics

• Creating games’ dynamics
• Game depth vs. complexity

Unit 4. Aesthetics

• Videogame genres
  • Adventure
  • Action
  • Shooter
  • Puzzle
  • RHYTHM
  • Role Playing Game (RPG)
  • Sports 
  • Strategy
  • Construction and Management
  • Other genres
• The wheel of genres in videogames

Unit 5. Types of players: Bartle’s taxonomy

Unit 6. Game Theory

• What is game theory?
  • Representation structures
• Game type
• Nash equilibrium

Unit 1. History of storytelling

• Literature, cinema and video games
• First storytelling experiences in video games

Unit 2. Key storytelling concepts

• The conflict
• The three-act structure
  • The first act: setup
  • The second act: confrontation
  • The third act: resolution
  • Plot points
  • Tension and pace
  • Three-act outline
• The hreo’s journey: the monomyth
  • Archetypes
  • Structure

Unit 3. Characters

• The hero or the heroine
• The villain or the villainess
• Character arches
• Character sheet

Unit 4. The story and the world

• Exposition
  • Show, don’t tell
  • Categorising information
  • Foreshadowing
• Credibility
  • Consistency
  • Coincidences
  • Surprise
  • Spectacle

Unit 5. Storytelling in video games

• Game history vs. Player history
• Storytelling vs game design
• Description of locations and levels

Unit 6. Temporality and storytelling

• Game time vs story time
• Order
• Pace
• Frequency

Unit 7. Storytelling experiences

• Case study 1: To the moon
• Case study 2: Undertale
• Case study 3: Pony Island

Unit 1: Introduction to Unreal Engine

• Why use Unreal Engine if you are a Game Designer?
• Installing Unreal Engine

Unit 2: First steps with Unreal Engine

• Prototyping
• Static Meshes
• Landscapes

Unit 3: General scripting concepts

• How does the blueprint system work?
• Events
• Variables
• Actors

Unit 4: Introduction to Unity 3D

• Why use Unity 3D if you are a Game Designer?
• Installing Unity 3D

Unit 5: First steps with Unity 3D

• Panels

Unit 6: GameObjects and components

• Primitives
• Components

Unit 7: Unity’s programming language

• Scripts
• Variables
• Arrays
• Functions
• Control structures

Unit 8: Prefabs and scenes

• Prefabs
• Scenes

Unit 1: Systems design

Unit 2: Introduction to level design

Unit 3: Storytelling and level design

• Environmental Storytelling
• Level Design
• World Design
• Recapitulating

Unit 4: Composition

• The close-up
• The element of interest or dominant
• The background
• Good compositions examples

Unit 5: Level’s creation process

• Setting and theme selection
• Taking references
• Sketches and concept art
• Graybox / Blockout / Block mesh
• Beautification / Art Pass / Level’s dress up

Unit 6: Introduction to combat design

Unit 7: Defensive manoeuvres

• Parry
• Animation cancelling
• Controls

Unit 8: Creating enemies: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Cheat without the players noticing

• Telegraph their actions

• Have different personalities (or any)

• Be predictable

• Interact with the game systems

• React to the player’s actions
• Conclusion

Unit 1: Materials and Lighting in Unreal Engine

• Shaders
• Lighting types

Unit 2: Advanced lighting in Unreal Engine 

• Effects and post-processing
• GI model for animations

Unit 3: Communication between actors in Unreal

• Comunicación between actors
  • Using public variables
  • Level blueprint
  • Blueprint interface
  • Actor component
  • Blueprint library

Unit 4: Project modes and cameras in Unity

• Perspective cameras and ortographic cameras

Unit 5: Introduction to lighting

• Lighting techniques
• Light types
• Shadows

Unit 6. Lighting and post-processing with Unity 

Unit 7: Physics and tools in Unity

• Rigidbody
• Colliders
• Tools

Unit 8: Canvas

Unit 9: Sprites 

• Sprite renderer
• Tileset
• Spritesheet
• 2D camera and Cinemachine
• Scene organiation
• 2D level developments without sprites

Unit 10: Grid use 

Unit 11: Geometries