Interface Design

Interface design is the layout for your game or simulation. What icons are you going to use for control buttons? How will the user navigate through your game? What angle of vision is the game set in? What kind of characters or objects will make up the game? You need an overall Strategic Plan.

Icons

Using visual cues...

Color Coding
Concepts covered for this course by week.

Icons
Concepts covered for this course by week.

Classic Monopoly tokens
http://www.monopoly.com/default.asp?x=newtoken_current

Online Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
http://www.symbols.com/

Universal Symbols from Dry Cleaning
http://www.eurocleaners.gr/universal_symbols/

Navigation

Navigation and turn-based design vs. real-time design. User interaction via what mechanism?

Camera Eye

Camera perspectives:

First-person
Over the Shoulder (OTS) third-person
Fixed-Camera
Combination of perspectives

Characters

Characters....

Strategic Plan

Forming Strategic Plan...

Archetypes

Game Review

Flash Project

Basic Flash drawing. If you aren't already familiar with the Flash program, there are tutorials in the Help section on Basic Flash mx, Action Scripting, and Components (screen cap shown):

Design Project

Documentation Project

Latin		Greek
A	Absolute, action, " - all	a A	Initial, creation
B	Being, becoming	b B	Biology, life
C		c C
D	Dimensions	d D	Change
E	Evolution, $ - exists, existence	e E
F	Fundamental	f F	Nothing
G	Group	g G	Geology, earth
H	History, horizon	h H
I	Information	i I
J	Journey	j J
K	Knowledge, knowing	k K
L	Life	l L
M	Meaning	m M	Metaphysics
N	Nature, natural	n N
O	Ontology	o O
P	Psyche, process	p P	Physics, physical
Q	Question
R	Relation	r R
S	Society	s S
T	Time	t T
U	Universe, universal, unknown, unconscious	u U
V	Value	v V	Final, destruction
W	World	w W
X	Space, position	x X
Y		y Y	Psyche, psychology
Z	Zoological	z Z