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The Case For Game Design Patterns Outlook Patterns
are a formal means of documentation, and such means open the door to software
tools for maintaining and editing game design documents. Take screenplays:
word processors can be configured to handle the canonical format for scriptwriting,
and some applications have been designed specifically to support that
movie industry format. Many game companies and game designers have devised
their own internal standards for game design documents. But defining a
standard format for game design documents is of limited use unless there
are editing and search facilities that support and enforce the format. Consequently, game developers have to make a sustained, conscious effort to define and describe the recurring elements of their daily work - whether as patterns, rules or some other method -- so we can begin to create software tools made or adapted specifically for game design purposes. The case for Alexandrian game design patterns [22,29] seems strong: they have proven themselves in other and diverse professions; they are intuitive, well documented, and a familiar concept to software engineers, yet are flexible enough to permit anecdotak or informal descriptions of artistic choices. Bibliography [1] Christopher Alexander. Notes on the Synthesis of Form. (Harvard University Press 1964, 1966, 1979.) ISBN 0-674-62750-4 (cloth) ISBN 0-674-62751-2 (paper) [2] Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, and Denny Abrams. The Oregon Experiment. (Oxford University Press, 1975.) ISBN 0-19-501824-9 [3] Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. (Oxford University Press, 1977.) ISBN 0-19-501919-9 [4] Christopher Alexander. The Timeless Way of Building. (Oxford University Press, 1979.) ISBN 0-19-502402-8 [5] Brad Appleton. Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology. Last update: Feb. 2000. [6] Hal Barwood. "Four of the Four Hundred 2001". (GDC lecture, 2001.) [7] Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein. "More of the 400: Discovering Design Rules 2002" (GDC 2002 lecture) [8] Cliff Bleszinski. "The Art and Science of Level Design." (GDC 2000, pp. 107--118.) [9] Jon Blossom and Collette Michaud. "Postmortem: LucasLearning's Star Wars DroidWorks" (Gamasutra 1999.) Originally Game Developer magazine, Vol 3, Issue 28, pp. 52-58, July 1999. [10] Steven Chen and Duncan Brown. "The Architecture of Level Design." (GDC 2001 Proceedings, pp. 167--175.) [11] Doug Church. "Formal Abstract Design Tools." (Gamasutra, 1999. Originally Game Developer magazine, Vol 3, Issue 28, July 1999.) [12] Doug Church. "Abdicating Authorship: Goals and Process of Interactive Design." (GDC 2000, San Jose, Lecture 5403 (not in proceedings).) [13] Stephen Clarke-Willson. "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments" (Digital Illusion, ACM Press, Vol. 2, Issue 1, January 1, 1998.) [14] (N/A). [15] Chris Crawford. The Art of Computer Game Design, Chapter 6: "Design Techniques and Ideals." 1984. [16] Troy Dunniway. "Using the Hero's Journey in Games." Gamasutra, 1999. [17] Troy Dunniway. Professional Game Design. (New Riders. To be published June 2002. ISBN 0-7357-1184-4. ) [18] Noah Falstein. "Better By Design: The 400 Project". (Game Developer magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 3, March 2002, p. 26.) [19] Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. (Addison Wesley Longman, 1994.) ISBN 0-201-63361-2. [20] Chris Hecker and Zachary Booth Simpson "Game Programming Patterns & Idioms." Game Developer magazine, Sep. 2000. [21] John Hopson "Behavioral Game Design." Gamasutra, April 2001. [22] Bernd Kreimeier. Game Design Patterns. Wordware Publishing, Inc. To be published March 2003.) ISBN 1-55622-967-4 [23] Brenda Laurel. Computers as Theatre. (Addison Wesley Longmasn, Inc. 1991, 1993 ISBN 0-201-55060-1.) [24] Marc LeBlanc. "Formal Design Tools: Emergent Complexity, Emergent Narrative." GDC 2000, San Jose, Lecture 5304 (not in proceedings). [25] Gerard Meszaros and Jim Doble "A Pattern Language for Pattern Writing" [26] Pierre-Alain Mueller. Instant UML. (Wrox Press, Ltd., 1997) ISBN 1-861000-87-1. [27] Karen Pryor. Don't Shoot The Dog! (Bantam Doubleday, 1999) ISBN: 0-55338-039-7 (revised paperback edition) [28] Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris. Game Architecture and Design. (The Coriolis Group, 2000.) ISBN 1-57610-425-7 [29] Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams. Patterns in Game Design. (The Coriolis Group, to be published May 2002.) ISBN 1-57610-873-2 [30] Richard Rouse. Game Design: Theory & Practice. (Wordware, Inc., 2000) ISBN 1-55622-735-3 [31] Aamod Sane "The Elements of Pattern Style." December, 1995. [32] Viktor Shklosvsky. Theory of Prose Dalkey. (Archive Press 1990, 1991.) ISBN 0-916583-54-6 (cloth) ISBN 0-916583-54-6 (paper). [33] Zachary Booth Simpson "Design Patterns for Computer Games." 1998 CGDC Austin, TX, November 1998, also San Jose, CA, May 1999. [34] John Vlissides. "Pattern Hatching - Seven Habits of Successful Pattern Writers." C++ Report. Nov/Dec 1996, and Pattern Hatching: Design Patterns Applied (Addison Wesley, 1998). [35] Christopher Vogler. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. (Michael Wiese Productions, 1998.) ISBN 0-941188-70-1
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