Converting Game Design Attributes to Numbers
- Getting a Feel for Your Attributes
- Determining the Granularity for Numbers
- The Tension Trick
- Searching for the Right Numbers
- Further Steps
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
So far in this book, you have created objects and their attributes. You have also created a spreadsheet to organize all your data. The next step in bringing your game ideas to life is to start putting in numbers for all of those attributes.
Getting a Feel for Your Attributes
Before trying to assign numbers to attributes, you should start by getting a feel for what you want to get from those attributes. For example, if you were making a racing game and wanted to create the speeds and acceleration attributes for three different vehicles, you could start with some descriptions of what the speed and acceleration feel should be:
Sports car: Good acceleration and good top speed
Muscle car: Fastest top speed but with less acceleration than a sports car
Motorcycle: Fastest acceleration but lowest top speed
While you have assigned no numbers to these attributes yet, you now have a guide that will help in determining what numbers fit the feel you want.