How to make a game?
First, we need to understand what the game engine and mechanics are. Let’s focus on the engine first. Let’s create a game composed of three elements. This will be our engine on which we will base the entire game. Let it be a simple game.
– Number 1
– Number 2
– Number 3
Let’s play a game with balls and a bag. All the balls are thrown into the bag. The participants of the game draw one ball at a time. Without showing anyone, they check what they have drawn.
– The person who drew number 1 tells the other participants that she is the one who gets the worst task in the game. However, he has a chance to defend himself from this if he guesses who among the participants drew number 2.
– The person who drew number 3 maintains a neutral attitude. None of the tasks that were drawn are applicable to the person who drew number 3.
Remember that this game can be made from literally anything. You can try it yourself. You can use cards, cups. Literally everything. We ended up with this:
(A) Equal Chances
Now that we have a game engine composed of three elements, let’s play with the game mechanics. Let’s expand our game with a story. Let’s make two games on the same engine. We will only change the scenarios:
(B) Detectives
(C) Galactic Olympics
Now let’s add one element to the game engine. Now our game engine consists of four elements.
– Let’s make a card game. Let’s place one element from our game engine on each corner of the playing card.
– Let’s add random elements to our game mechanics.
– Let’s add a story to the game
– Let’s make some graphics
– Let’s create a game and enjoy our work.
(D) Heroes of Commonwealth
(E) Brunanburh