Gamestar Mechanic

I can design a video game using a cyclical design process.

Question to Ponder: How do you design a good video game? What makes a video game fun?

Here are a few design principles that we will follow:

• • Easy to learn, hard to master

  • Levels increase in difficulty

  • Reward the player

  • Have an interesting story for your game and stick to it.

4: Innovative Designer

Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions.

a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing, theories, creating innovative artifacts, or solving authentic problems.

b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of cyclical design process.

d. Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.