Case Study: Redesigning an Existing System — Roadmap Step & Resources
Analyzing and proposing improvements to a system from a shipped game
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Game Design (Systems & Narrative)
Before this step
Mini projects
- Pick a system from an existing game and write a full redesign proposal with rationale
Study resources
- Game Developer (formerly Gamasutra) (Article) — A long-running industry publication covering game design, production and postmortems. Background reading/viewing for: Case Study: Redesigning an Existing System.
- GDC Vault (Video) — Talks from the Game Developers Conference on design careers. Relevant to: Case Study: Redesigning an Existing System.
Part of
- Career and Capstone — section
- Game Design (Systems & Narrative) roadmap — the full learning path