Basics of Game Design

Game Controls

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It is also important for designers to consider how much real es-

tate menus take up on a screen. While a menu system can be sprawl-

ing for games played on high-resolution monitors and televisions,

even oering multiple options per screen to reduce the number of

menus overall, the same approach does not work well for smaller

televisions and monitors or for lower-resolution screens used by

handheld and mobile platforms. For these platforms, the menu sys-

tem should include more layers, with only a few options being of-

fered per menu but with more menu screens for the player to page

through. To port a big computer