Video Game Design Method for Novice

Abstract

This paper shows how college students without
prior experience in video game design can create an interesting
video game. Video game creation is a task that requires weeks
if not months of dedication and perseverance to complete.
However, with Alice, a group of three sophomore students who
never designed a game can create a full-fledged video game from
given specifications. Alice is 3D graphics interactive animation
software, which is well-tried and proven to be an enjoyable
learning environment. At the start of this project, students are
given guidelines that describe expected outcomes. With minimum
supervision, in three days, a working program that matches the
guidelines is accomplished. In additional two days, students
enhance the quality with better graphics design and music.
With this experience, 3D graphics interactive animation
software, like Alice, is demonstrated to be a useful teaching tool
in education for academic courses of game development and
design. This paper not just discusses how the video game was
created, but also speaks of the difficulties the team overcomes
easily with Alice.