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Why Prototype?

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Summary

Even professional game makers with years of experience can't look at a game idea and say whether it is fun. How do they find out? Prototyping.

Materials

Games_Design_and_Play_-_Macklin_and_Sharp_-_Ch_10.pdf

Language

English

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Azteroids Prototype

This is the prototype form my asteroids clone game. unfortunately, nobody tested it but me. It needs more tuning but basic gameplay is here. assets are a mix of stuff that I've made (Asteroid sprite) and other assets from opengameart.com Code is messy but it gets the job done for now.

UI Explorer Window for Bookshelf

Made the simplest way for the player to explore the content in the bookshelf, Next step its solve how to show the whole book on the screen.

My platform videogame prototype

This is a prototype of a very easy platform game. It is played by pressing just one key. The idea is about making an attractive game with as little code as possible. I have shown it to some people and the testers have found the game interesting.

Sky Plane prot Vadim Nichkov

a prototype for my simple game to control the plane

My Digital Prototype

A screenshot from my very basic digital prototype for my game idea. This prototype helped me make an important decision: when drafting my ideas i didn't thought about adding player combat, but the first prototype I made showed that the idea as it was wasn't too interesting, so I decided to make the game more topdown shooter like.

Temple of the four elements (prototype)

Diagram of connecting elemental crystals to open a portal

Caterpillar 2.0

Core mechanics for my game is a 2D RPG like the classic Mario game.

shooting range prototype

Core mechanics for my game Shoot n Scoot. shooting range prototype with basic movement, jumping, shooting and destroying enemies.