Design
Training & Documents
This is collection of some of the training exercises and design papers I’ve written over the years. Some for fun and others for work.
Section under Construction…
The following is a design training exercise that I created with Miro Online whiteboard. I was important that this exercise work well for a remote team. Miro ended up being a great tool for remote collaboration.
This is a Mission/Content one-sheet template that I created for a Studio design exercise. The goal was to guide designers through a simulated game project, write a mission, and then capture all the important details into a visual flow chart for easy reference and communication with other teams. I worked with the Narrative director to craft the mission writing portions which preceded this step.
This is an example of the filled out template using a sample mission. This sheet has the Mission name, Logline/heartline take from the design brief. A list of all the gameplay verbs that mission explicitly leverages (with click through links to specs & other docs) a Flow chart of the mission. a List of any rewards or saved variables generated from the mission
Picture of the Miro board exercise instructions.
The 4th section that would have taken designers through Greybox/Blockout course.
Designer Mantras
For the exercise I created a simulated project with Vision pillars, and mantras. I borrowed the mantras from Arkane Studios, because I love they way they did it. Easy to explain and use for the purposes. Just good principle for any project. There is no escaping your influences.
3. Mission Prompts
In the follow the section the designers are given the main mission prompt, and randomized complications that needs to be included for each major missions beat. By the end designers should have written skeleton of a mission.
2. Mission Creation - But & Because
Next is the writing section intended to integrate Narrative & design processes and create a shared methodology. I collaborated with the Narrative Director for this section. It was important to me that everyone use to the same terminology.