Examination

Level Design and Cinematic

Game Production: Game Production Cycle (Pre-production, Production, Testing, Post-production), Roles in game production (Production roles, Art roles, Engineering roles, Design Roles, Audio Roles, Quality Assurance Roles, Team Organisation, Corporate), Project Management Methods, Managing Talents, Issues and Challenges.

Level Design: Elements of Level Design, Game-spaces, Architectural Spatial Arrangements, Historic Game-space Structures (Labyrinth, Maze and Rhizome), Size of Spatial Space, Sandbox Game-spaces, Visual communications in Level Design, Purpose-driven level design techniques (Events-draw-in spaces, Memorable spaces, Survival spaces, Opportunity spaces, Reward spaces and systems, Game spaces in storytelling), Pacing events and rewards, Experiential Choices, Social Interactions, Immersion and engagement in level design, Goals and Challenges.

Digital Storytelling: Principles of Storytelling (Model for Entertainment, Flow of Story, Structures for Story Delivery), Storytelling Frameworks (The Hero’s Journey, The Heroine’s Journey, Pixar Pitch, Characters and Archetypes) and Techniques for manipulating emotions for entertainment experiences, Methods for documenting story.

Cinematography: Types of Shots, Visual Language, Lens Language, Visual Storytelling, Cinematic Continuity, Lighting, Colour and Camera Movement.

Machinima and In-game cinematics: Machinima, Techniques for Machinimas (AI, Puppeteering, Recamming and Scripting), Application of Machinima techniques for in-game cinematics, Game Technologies enabling Machinima, Visual Effects for Games (Particle Systems, Organics and Foliage, Decals).

Game Production - 6108COMP

Game Production

Critically analyse concepts and techniques for designing game-spaces, storytelling and cinematography.

Apply appropriate storytelling principles and cinematography techniques for digital game production.

Design and critically evaluate the playability, usability and theme of a game level.

Evaluate game production cycles, the team structure and approaches to managing a game project.