Basics of Game Design

Designing Playfields

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takes considerable training for artists to become procient in the 3D

graphics programs used to create the meshes and then apply textures

to them so they don’t tear.

e process for creating 3D games is comparable to lming

movies while creating 2D games is rather like creating cartoons.

However, where actors portray the characters in a movie and move

and act as the script requires them, in games the player controls the

actions of the main character (or racing car or professional athlete

or some other object) while the AI code module controls the ac-

tions of all other beings and objects in the ga ...