8 Game Design Tips For Beginners

  Melvin       July 23, 2021

Game development is fun and creative but to enjoy the success of your game you need to be aware of certain key factors. This article is focused on those who are new to game design and development. As a game development company in India, we have gathered feedback from both users and developers in our community to make this article of utmost benefit.

So let us see what are those 8 game design tips crucial for game development beginners.

1. Choose Popular Concepts

Not everything works in the gaming industry. Some concepts might sound interesting but end up disastrous after their launch. This leads to the loss of time, money and effort of a whole team. The most effective method to tackle this situation is to choose popular content that has captured the attention of a wide audience. Obviously, the uniqueness might be a little low but as a beginner, you won't be in a good condition to take huge risks. After gaining popularity in the gaming market, you can do a brainstorm and bring new ideas into action.

2. Look for Fun Element

Develop a fun rich game, and that is what makes it work. 90% of gaming enthusiasts look for a fun element in a game. The fun can be in its gameplay, role-playing character or even in background scores. So before you develop the game, understand your game's fun factor. After the successful launch of the game, try to take feedbacks regarding that elements and make sure you bring adequate updates for it.

3. Keep Users in Mind

One thing that fails a developer in making his game successful is not having a clear understanding of the target audience for the game. We have to deliver what its users need and not everything that comes to your mind. Game developers have a more analytical mindset and markets understand the pulse of the players. We conduct regular brainstorming sessions for development and marketing teams to understand and deliver what our users want. Keep looking for inputs from your audience as they can lead you to perfection.

4. Highlight the Uniqueness

Something must be there in your game that keeps it different from your competitor's version. It can be the game art, audio or even the gameplay itself. Research what makes your game unique and try to focus more on bringing updates to that particular feature. 

5. Keep the Controls Simple

The gameplay should be clear and simple and so the game controls. A user retains the game on his device and creates an emotional bonding with the game only if has simple and easy-to-play characteristics. The game must have an easy to learn interface which things much better. Our team invests more time and effort in delivering smooth and easy to play games. 

6. Have a Balancing Gameplay

What if the enemy side is too weak to stand upon your attacks? The game will be too boring. The right level of difficulty to the gameplay is a crucial factor. We install a game, play it and start analysing difficulty progression automatically in our brain. A game designer's true challenge lies in setting up the progression of the game. Ideally, a game starts on easy mode and then slightly increasing its difficulty. The right balance of the game makes it engaging and trending in the market.

7. Get Immersive Game sounds

Do you think game sounds are the least important and can add any kind of free music in the game? It's high to change your mind then. As soon as the programmers start writing codes the sound engineers should start creating appropriate sound effects for the game. Musician Daniel Scarratt has written on the evolution of audio in video games which shows how important it has become in gaming. For beginners it might not be affordable so for now they can depend on free music available on free music sites. Whenever you start growing make sure you have a team of sound engineers working for your game.

8. Importance of Game Marketing

Now you have a game developed and you expect it to be a massive success. But how without right way of marketing. Whether it be a simple HTML5 game or an RPG, you need to do proper marketing to make your target audience aware of your game. Social media can really help you if you become successful in building a good community or followers. You can also participate in discussion forums where you cannot do open marketing but introduce your peers regarding the new game you have launched.  By following some tips to promote your game in the market can earn you good results.

It involves so much dedication and energy to successfully launch a game. We provide advice and guidance to people who are willing to invest in the gaming industry. We have also trained a lot of Unity developers who have become proficient in their game development careers.

Learn it, keep doing it and apply these 8 game design tips to your game.