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Creativity in game design

Creativity in Game Design

20 Apr, 16 Games,

Power of Creativity in Game Design

What do you see in a game when you start playing it? Is it not the visual part of a game that attracts you first and intrigues you in order to continue playing? Visuals and background images pull us. There has to be a first impression in order to continue with a game. Creativity forms a large part (most essential part) of a game. Designers, creative artists and illustrators work hard to create accurate visual representations. Turning a concept into a final gaming project depends a lot on designers than on developers. A lot of detailing, production phases, options, stage wise artworks build the base of a game. Developers take forward the details and bring a game alive based on all the scratches, drafts, cancelled designs, concept arts and design guides provided by the designers and game artists.

Designing Games to Portray Creativity

Game design is essential. A product needs to have a good design to become successful. Gamers look for interactive, entertaining and power-packed games. To achieve all these feats it requires creative artistry of a designer to visualize and design the implementation procedures. Development for high-end games requires talent but a talented designer will not leave a game’s probable success solely on chance.

 Creativity in game design

Advantages of Game Design

Game designing requires dedicated professionals. Without a design chief it would become difficult to bring out a viable product. Surprise elements built inside a game are handiwork’s of an innate designer or a creative artist. Features and coherent processes of a game belong to the territories of a game designer.

In order to bring together a conclusive game, to follow the game’s activities, maintain a viable UI, UX, keep an entertaining an interactive production requires vigorous game design. Design is the basis of a production. Profitability and market viability of a game depends on the design focus.

Game is a commercial production which requires technical know how for what you need to do and how will you do it. A carefully designed game includes entertainment elements in it. If you do not have a game designer you will fail to have a good perspective for your game.

Urge Users to Come Back and Play

Popular games insist on building strong ties with the audience. Games that are social in nature earn maximum benefits by channelizing users to return for game play. If creativity is high in a game, users will find a reason to share it with friends and acquaintances. Designers are the brains behind setting these unique advantages for a game.

With increasing number of returning users, games can find a potential way of churning revenues. For startups this means huge platform. Urging users to come back and play will put up the net worth of a brand (or a company that is just starting out in the market).

Game Design is the Key Component of Game Development

Game development does not happen by fluke. A commercially viable mobile game meets success when focus, graphics and entertaining experience meet quality coding. Popular and high end games such as Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, Starcraft, Goldeneye 007 and Resident Evil became popular neither because they were just graphically enticing nor because of their fantastic codes. These games were developed and conceptualized to bring in supreme entertainment for players. Creative pursuit included prolonged careful thought and high level of focus which came from the design departments.

In conclusion it can be added that a game being a commercial production, requires careful design plan. Hows, Whos and Whats remain included in production design. It is by all means beneficial to pursue vigorous design and creative preparations to attain success and brand value.

  • For many kids this is their first brush with systems thinking as expressed in a method of design. For many it is also the first time they recognize their creative potential. Together, these two experiences can produce a tremendous appetite for learning as kids seek to better understand the world we share in order to build better, more engaging games. Or as one parent, Wendy Woon, said about her son, “I’ve never seen him so excited about the possibilities and the process of going back to school!”