Video Game DesignBy Cameron

Table of Contents

Video Games In History

How Games Are Made

Famous Designers

Mario

Sonic

Link

Ideas for a Designer’s Idea

Video Games in History1958- The first video game is made on an oscilloscope

by William Higinbotham.

1962- The first interactive computer game is made.

1970-1972- Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney create the first video arcade game and start the Atari company.

1975- People wait in line for hours to get on the waiting list for Pong.

1976-Space Invaders appears at arcades and becomes the first game to display high scores.

Video Games In History

1977- With the Atari 2600, games can now be played on your TV.

1980- Pac-Man is released and becomes one of the most famous games of all time.

1981- Donkey Kong becomes the first platformer game.

1985-Tetris is created by Alex Pajitnov and becomes one of most popular games ever.

Nintendo releases the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)

Video Games In History

1986- Nintendo releases the Game Boy.

1991- Nintendo releases the Super NES.

1995- PlayStation becomes the most

popular game console with 20 million

sold.

1996- Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64.

2000- Sims becomes the most popular computer game.

Sony releases the PS2

Video Games In History

2001- Nintendo releases GameCube.

Microsoft releases Xbox.

2004- Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS.

Sony releases the PSP.

2005- Microsoft releases the Xbox 360.

2006- Nintendo releases the Wii, the first game console to use motion-control.

Sony releases the PS3.

How Video Games Are Made

• The core team works on how the game will look and work.

• An artist sketches the characters, objects, and backgrounds.

• A graphic designer puts what the artist drew on the computer.

• Then the development team makes the characters, and objects work.

• The programmers and engineers make the game able to be played.

• Finally the testers find glitches in the game to be fixed.

Famous Designers

• William Higinbotham- Creator of the first video game, Tennis for Two.

• Nolan Bushnell- Creator of Pong, and founder of Atari.

• Shigeru Miyamoto- Creator of Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and Legend of Zelda. Built Nintendo from a small toy company into one of the major video game companies.

Mario

• First Game- Donkey Kong

• Other Games- Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros Wii

Sonic the Hedgehog

• First Game- Sonic the Hedgehog

• Other Games- Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Link

• First Game- Legend of Zelda• Other Games- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, The

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Ideas for a Designer’s Idea

• Humor

• Crazy Ideas that Branch Out

• Life Experience

• Dreams

• Nature

Haunted Mansion

Haunted Mansion is a game I made. It shows on a video game how one little choice can change the whole thing. Mr. Stroud showed me how to do it, but I came up with the storyline on my own.