Game Design 2: Lecture 12 - Platform Specific Design
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Game Design 2: Lecture 12 - Platform Specific Design
- 1. 2011 Game Design 2 Lecture 15: Designing for Platforms http://www.comu346.com david.farrell@gcu.ac.uk
- 3. Designing for Platforms • It is not always possible to have exactly the same experience on different platforms. • Even when it is, it is not always a good thing.
- 5. • Deus Ex 2 • one ammo type
- 6. • Modern Warfare 2 • No dedicated servers
- 8. PC to Console • Civilization 4 for PC was re-imagined as Civilization Revolution for Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and later iPhone • Whilst it would probably be POSSIBLE to do a direct port, that would fail to consider the context in which the player is engaged or the best way to utilise that platform.
- 9. iPhone HIG Video • App statement that captures experience • Consider the context that the user is interacting with the device • screen 30 centimetres away? • phone 1 metre away?
- 10. Console Player Context • Shorter Sessions • Further from display • lean forward vs sit back (10 ft interface) • Less fidelity in controls • Vs mouse / keyboard • Less resolution (non hi def TVs)
- 12. Abstracting Systems • Where an interface must be simpler, one option is to redesign an underlying system, either by simplification or abstraction. • Civ 4 has a unit called a worker. The player must build this unit then give that unit order to improve land and build roads. • Civ Rev has no such unit. The player can spend money to build a road instead. • Civ 4 has universal tax - Civ Rev city by city
- 13. Combining Actions • In order to further simplicity, look for opportunities to reduce the number of actions required from the user. • Civ 4 has the ability to build boats and then load those boats with units for exploration • Civ Rev gives the player one ‘free’ unit on every boat built
- 14. Reduce Micromanagement • Micromanaging the details of a civilisation takes a significant amount of time and doesn’t reinforce the streamlined goals of the Civ Rev design. • Firaxis made decisions that allow the player to pay less attention to micromanagement • workers, ‘happiness’, automatic builds
- 15. Less Info on Screen • Providing the interface is intuitive, it may be possible to retain information but reduce the amount of information on screen at any one time (i.e - spread info over multiple screens). • On low resolution devices, a larger percentage of screen is taken up by UI
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- 18. • xbox normal
- 19. Control Schemes • Not having mouse / keyboard on consoles means that it is necessary to use the buttons and joysticks to access menus and other items that would normally be placed at corners of screen.
- 22. Redesign Control Scheme • PC control scheme vs Console vs iphone
- 23. Doom • PC - Mouse and (OR) keyboard • iPhone 3 Modes • id aren’t sure what is best • compromise of flexibility vs convenience
- 27. To Summarise • Abstract Systems and Information • Group similar items • Reduce micromanagement • Understand control schemes • Consider Resolution • Reduce on screen information • Be aware of norms and guidelines documents
- 28. Hands on?
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- Consider the second Deus Ex game.\n\nOne of the first big cross-platform PC games that designed for console first.\n\nNote the radial menu\n
- They made compromises and hurt their PC base - ammo and radial menu\n
- When MW2 came out there was a protest because of the lack of Dedicated servers\n\n\n
- of course on the day of release, we saw how effective the ‘boycott’ was.\n
- So it is important to understand the expectations and norms of a platform in order to create somethign satisfying for that platform.\n
- \nthe key statement from the iPhone video \nyou want to recreate the core experience, not the feature list\n
- Compared to PC - civ would have this profile on console\n\n\n
- 10 ft interface\n\n\n
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- because of the low res, you can’t cram as much in - you have to be clever about how you split info up over screens\n\n
- here is civ 4 - loot at all that data\n\nmight seem cluttered - but it’s perfect for viewing on a pc screen.\n\nlots of easy to read info (once you know how)\n\n
- Civ rev on xbox reduces amount of info shown at once - you use the LT and RT to go between ‘bits’ of info\n
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- another thing you have to consider is the inptu scheme\n\n
- note how each corner has a suite of info accessible through the buttons there\n\n\n
- civ rev uses the corners but instead of showing the ifnor directly, you have to act to access it.\n\n\n
- On the iPhone you don’t have mouseover - so to move a unit, you click and drag...\n\n
- Doom was also redesigned for phones and tablets\n\non PC it uses mouse / keyboard\n\non iPhone they had THREE modes! \n\nbecause non was actually that good\n
- this one has one finger to rotate and move and you tap the shoot button\n\n
- this one has movement and rotation separately - so you can circle strafe - but have to reach for shoot\n\n
- this one like last one but instead of a wheel it worked like a joypad\n\n\n
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