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Part I: Getting Started

✓ Lots of pencils, of various grades

✓ Some paper

✓ Some friends to “play” your paper game

✓ Patience, a good idea, and a sense of humor

After you collect what you need, sit down and think about the flow of your

game. Think about even the most mundane things, such as menus and the

game’s launch. Here’s the paper-prototyping process that you use to design

the game flow, its mechanics, and its look and feel:

1. Think about your game as a series of interconnected boxes of func-

tionality and then draw those boxes and connections.

Start at the highest level you can go and distill the representation to the

basic set of game functions you need to implement.

As shown in Figure 1-3, making decisions about the flow of your game

early is important.

Figure 1-3:

The flow of

the Traffic

screens.

Main Menu

Game Screen Settings

Game Over Paused

High Scores Multiplayer

2. Draw the game board, and then add lines and arrows to show how

objects move onscreen, as shown in Figure 1-4.

The simple act of drawing how game objects move and how they react to

the user helps solidify how you see the game. These movements and reac-

tions are the game mechanics. When designing your game’s mechanics,

consider how to keep the players busy without causing undue frustration.

In general, giving the players the ability to do more means that the game

maintains the player’s interest. This is critical for games because if the

player gets bored at any stage, the Home button is inches away from

her fingers. Your game needs to be fun, intuitive, and exciting from the

moment you launch the application.

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