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I wanted to introduce some unconventional design approaching while teaching level design. I have had an idea to do a game with using a surrealist approach. For that I designed a game stub and coded the base functionality on the top of Unity. The student are tasked to do level design using that design, code, created prefabs.
My slides for the course intro (http://www.slideshare.net/lankoski/level-designintro)
(Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/lankoski/game-jampresentation)
There are some extra slides and bullets that I removed to fit the presentation to 20 minutes slot.
The Settlers of Catan simulator code: http://www.mediafire.com/view/bqag3hbz262gpac/catan.py
Williams: “In this post, I’ve collated some of my favourite post mortems, game design documents, and design analyses for mainstream games[…]” http://hub.tutsplus.com/articles/15-analyses-post-mortems-and-game-design-docs–gamedev-11554
Warren Spector, Next-gen storytelling: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/category/437
Sheldon J. Pacotti has created a toolset for teaching game development, especially for “constructing non-linear stories, which in my mind comprise more than talk trees and branching conversations.”
The toolset is build on Byob (which is based on Scratch).
Pacotti explains Game Blocks on video:
Download and tutorials available at: http://www.newlifeinteractive.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=40:cell&Itemid=60&layout=default.
Gamasutra features a skin shader for Unity with the source code: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/39446/InDepth_Skin_Shading_In_Unity3D.php
