August Meetup: Visualizing Your Game Design

When: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

Where: Lexington Central Library: 140 East Main Street, Lexington, Conference Room A (lower level) Details

What Time: 7:00pm

How Much: FREE

Parking: Free validated parking in library garage

Join us to hear from Chris Bruser talk about game design. Chris Bruser is an indie game designer currently living in Washington, DC. He has been developing video games for Nintendo handheld platforms for THQ Inc, the Microsoft Xbox360 for Seven45 Studios, and the Nintendo Wii for DoubleTap Games. Currently, he is developing an independent game project using the Unity game engine. http://buoyc1.blogspot.com

Visualizing Your Game Design – Presented by Chris Bruser

Having spent 11 years in the game industry as a game designer, I’ve worked on many different games under many different circumstances. A common thread through all of them was the challenge of having both internal and external team members invested in the ideas being discussed or currently in development. Especially when a project was in its infancy and a playable proof-of-concept doesn’t exist yet; or when budgets and time constraints hinder the ability to develop an informative prototype.

Written game designs have traditionally been incorporated to fill this gap, but in my experience, they didn’t always (1) enable the team to ask the right questions (2) see the glaring flaws in their design until it was too late. In my talk, I’ll highlight some of the approaches I’ve taken, as a game designer, to address these problems and make better games in the process.