How to make a videogame - Part 1: The basics of game design

How do you make a videogame? You prototype it on paper first!
In this video tutorial, Matteo Menapace, game designer and educator, will take you step-by-step (with the aid of some handy forms) through the fundamentals of game design by playing, analysing and mashing up boardgames. Yes, boardgames! It's quicker and easier to turn your ideas into something playable by other humans, when you make with your hands.
Download these handy forms to help you create a videogame: bit.ly/makeavideogameforms
01:27 How to analyse any game by looking at its mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics
05:10 How to effectively hack a game (aka 'the point')
06:03 Play and analyse a game
06:59 Hack the game you played
07:43 Playtest your hack
Apply the new game design skills you’ve learned in Part 1 to create a videogame in Part 2: Making a videogame with PuzzleScript: bit.ly/makeavideogamepart2
This video was produced to accompany the exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, till 24 February 2019
www.vam.ac.uk/videogames

[@Thiadoor99-te2yn]

Thank you ☺ so much for that advice. By the way I wrote my ideas down before I watched this video but thanks 😊 anyway. But before I start designing I’m gonna talk to my friends about it.

[@FatihTurkerFatih]

Very good explanation

[@enterthecatverse7905]

Nice video, very easily understandable!

[@authenticlifestyle-channel708]

Awesome game stuff

[@dlavanya8477]

I also have to be a game designer.
Please you can teach me.

[@robzilla730]

I have an idea. I want to learn...

[@xoduk]

I've lost count of how many times I've "hacked" board games without knowing it lol. Yeah I've made a few board games and stuff but I feel like there's so much more possibility on a computer especially because I lack resources IRL.

[@ishdx9374]

do you make games and teach people how to start with game making?

[@eodezis]

хорошее и доброе лицо у этого Matteo

[@Thiadoor99-te2yn]

My game is gonna be called Ten Nights At Thiadoors the trailer is gonna be on my TH-cam channel soon 🔜

[@mypower1223]

hi? sir i want your help , i wana be game designer , show me how i can be easly