1st Year Game Design Introduction To Game Interface Design

Games Design Brain Dump ,[object Object]

Who am I? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Game Interface? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],Wikipedia article on Heads Up Display, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display , 2009

data communication and abstraction

[object Object],Salen and Zimmerman, Rules of Play, page 41, SAGE Publications, 2004

[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],For a bonus point: Have you seen this design mistake on campus?

[object Object],...but did anyone learn them?

What is colour for? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Colour in Games ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Semiotics A sign is “something that stands for something to someone in some capacity”

Literacy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Reading & Writing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What does this mean? “ The guard dribbled down court, held up two fingers and passed to the open man.”

Semiotic Domains ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Game Domains ,[object Object],[object Object]

Cultural Semiotics ,[object Object],[object Object]

Game Tells ,[object Object],[object Object]

Sci Fi Corridors ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Association ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

That’s That ,[object Object],[object Object]

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