Game Design school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

This class exposes students to the fundamental issues of game design and analysis through readings, writings, group discussions, and critiques of current digital and nondigital games. Students form a vocabulary to discuss and analyze each game’s successes and failures with respect to rules and narratives. Through in-class exercises and outside assignments, students create new rules for existing games as well as develop new designs demonstrating applied principles.

The process of video game design from initial concept and pitch through to completed game design using either traditional or agile development methodologies will be the focus of this course. From the first class, students will develop concepts that will be selected for completion by peer design teams. Teams then work to complete the game design document, concept art and an interactive installation, prototype or Web site highlighting their team’s design.

This course introduces students to game design through analysis, application and discussion of the game space, game mechanics, the game player, and the design decisions that create the game state. Through in-class game play and game design exercises, students will explore the design process through the concepts of player agency and immersion, while structures of goals?both short-term and long-term? force consideration of challenge, conflict and reward. Ultimately, students assess the needs of a ...

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This course enables students to analyze and develop interactive projects with physical input devices. Students develop simple interactive prototypes using switches, sensors and computer vision interfaces. Alongside the practical coursework, students read, analyze and discuss the origins and evolution of interactive art, interaction design and alternative gaming through relevant texts and projects. In the second part of the class, they research appropriate hardware and software solutions and deve...

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This course provides students with an in-depth and hands-on examination and critique of the art of nondigital game design. Students explore contemporary games and game designers to learn design patterns evident in these games as well as the means of exploring a variety of topics through the non-digital medium. Working through a range of design styles from nondigital strategy games to Eurogames games to art games, students become adept artists in the medium culminating in a non-digital prototype ...

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