Saturday, June 8, 2013

Crafting A Fantastic Space Game

By Yasmine Y. Yost


There are lots of space game design teams that work hard to make intelligent, challenging, and entertaining games for players and gaming fans around the world. The modern video game market is gigantic and encompasses millions of gamers, each of whom prefer a specific type of game in a certain genre. For instance, younger children typically prefer simple games that have a rather straightforward approach to overcoming challenges while adults tend to like more advanced games that require a lot of thinking and strategy. In order to reach their target audience and make their latest games as popular as possible, modern game makers spend a lot of time designing every aspect of their new releases.

A space game design team often starts with a basic gaming genre or concept, such as a shooter game, and then expand this with their own creative ideas in order to break from typical genre norms. One aspect of their job is to develop new plots and stories that will serve as the motivation for the events and characters of the game that they are working on. Getting characters to fall right in the sweet spot that attracts both adult players who like complex characters and stories with the simple yet fun attitude of characters that kids prefer is not easy but can make for an excellent game when achieved.

An especially challenging part of designing a space game is making the setting for the events of the game. Games need to have creative backgrounds that remind players of general science fiction themes without seeming like they are copies of other popular science fiction games or movies; striking this balance and being creative yet familiar is a challenge. The game's images, including backgrounds, enemies, and player characters, must all be prepared as concept art before they can be programmed into the actual game.

Extensive amounts of game testing are done once the final product is just about ready to be shipped to gamers. Many hours are spent doing real game testing in which bugs in the programming are identified and removed in order to make the final product as smooth and fun to play as possible.

Some gamers are not familiar with the tremendous work that goes into making great space game releases. When you come to know all designers do to make your favorite games, you will appreciate them more.




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