Game Design Collection Can I submit a game card? When I first heard about this kind of game design collection, the natural light was also obscured. After understanding, I knew that the original game was - Minecraft. After further understanding with the architecture teacher of the art department, we found that Minecraft is actually a game that is very suitable for students in the architecture space department. Although this game is pixel style, it involves very professional architectural knowledge, and there are almost no rules. One of the goals of the game is to build a house! The materials used in the game are very professional building consumables, such as pressure bearing plates, sand, pottery tiles, and raw stones. Even when natural light is searched on the game website, professional analysis on the applicability of various building materials appears.

In particular, recently, the IG team led by Rao Cong won the 2018 League of Heroes Global Finals, making us once again recognize the "game". In fact, many students of Natural Light are also interested in the game design collection, and put the game into the collection as an element or theme. Natural Light brings us several games today, These games may not be submitted directly as game design works, but they can definitely be used for your Collection of Works for Studying Abroad Bring true professional harvest and creative inspiration!

Civilization Empire Series

Recommended majors - all majors

Highlight - This is not a game, this is a set of world history!

Acquire skills - establish the overall awareness of the collection

"This is not a game, this is a set of general history of the world!" This sentence describes the civilized empire series games. If any game is absolute! must! It must be recommended. It must be "Civilization Empire Series". Many students have heard about the popularity of this series of games for a long time. After all, many American colleges and universities are using this game to popularize knowledge of history and civilization.

No matter the game production or every detail, the civilization series has been enduring, and even a new game category - civilization games has been born in the game field due to its influence. In addition to the above highlights, the biggest highlight of Civilization series games is probably the complete historical view system built in the game. Players can not only experience the fun of the game, but also feel the changes of the whole world history and the development of human culture.

For students majoring in art, it is very important to have a multi-dimensional overall awareness. Understanding the history of civilization development can make art students' creativity deeper and wider.

Assassin Creed&The Crew

Recommended major - architecture; Scenery; city planning

Highlight - 1:1 live restoration, you can travel around the world without playing

Acquire skills - unconventional sense of space

"After playing the" Assassin's Creed ", visiting Paris seemed to return to my hometown, and I felt homesickness with tears in my eyes." This sentence is definitely not a joke!

As an adventure game, "Assassin's Creed", in addition to its well made details and interesting and meaningful story background, is worth mentioning that it simulates European street scenes in Paris, Venice and other places in 1:1 live. Especially the students who are interested in medieval architecture must try it. Even if you don't play anything, you can see many architectural details just by wandering around in the game.

In addition to The Assassin's Creed, the race game The Crew is also a 1:1 highly realistic game. The overall background of the game is in the United States. Although players have different opinions on the experience of this game, the scene experience is really unspeakable. It is also a very good enjoyment to drive around the United States without going out.

These two games are very good choices for students who want to learn landscape, architecture, or European architecture. Especially, they can experience these buildings and street scenes 360 degrees without dead corners. It is not only the height of the landmark buildings, but also the seriousness and repetition of many small details. Even without playing games, you can easily feel the construction style of foreign streets.

Monument Valley

Recommended major - architecture; Scenery; Visual communication

Highlight - experience the disorder space of art in visual illusion

Acquire skills - sense of space upgrade

Speaking of Monument Valley, it is definitely one of the most popular mobile games in recent years. Whether it is the game picture, scene, sound effect, or the overall experience of the game, it is fascinating. This game occupies the forefront of the game design rankings.

The design form of the game itself is mainly visual illusion, but it also covers various forms of visual illusion. For students majoring in design, this is a very common form of graphic design, such as moving the device of the upper and lower floors in the game, spatial displacement caused by curved surface walking, two-dimensional plane coincidence caused by rotation, etc. In this game, the Dutch master printmaker M C. Escher's optical illusion idea is characterized by some impossible optical illusion structures, and also involves the optical illusion forms of Mobius ring and Panlos triangle.

For students majoring in design, "space" is a very important concept, whether it is visual art or space design. In particular, this interesting form of visual illusion often gives people a sense of fun to play.

Florence

Recommended major - interaction design; Interactive device

Reason for Recommendation - Meet you in the form of interactive design

Acquire skill - interactive awareness friend

I believe that this game is familiar to everyone. Many students who pay attention to our public account must have played it more than once. Why should Natural Light recommend this game? Because its interaction design is really great!

Many students may think that when learning interaction design, interaction design can only be given a general concept, or directly guided by the designer's own feelings. In fact, this is not the case! Interaction design focuses on the interactive connection between the user and the object to be used. This interactivity is not only conceptual, but also needs to be accurate to specific details.

Just like this game, every time the player clicks on the screen, the game will have subtle small interactions with the player. These small interactions not only dominate the development of the story, but also draw the player's emotions. Although the story is simple, when the player's feelings are driven by these interactive operations, the player will gradually become the protagonist in the story's life.

Letter Metamorphosis

Recommended major - visual communication; Graphic Artist Designer; Illustration

Reason for recommendation - fonts also need to be designed with unconstrained style

Acquire skills - learn simple font design and graphic design

Although this game seems to be prepared for children, if you are a student majoring in visual communication, graphic design and illustration, you can also consider playing it.

Visual elements and graphics are the most important part of visual design. They can guide people's visual senses and bring different visual feelings to the audience. As an indispensable visual element in visual design, characters are also necessary for the design of "mind".

This game imagizes letters in a highly deformable form without losing the original meaning of letters/words. I believe that you who are applying for a major in visual communication, graphic design and illustration can also get more inspiration on font design when playing games.

Oquonie

Recommended major - animation; Illustration

Highlight - Explore the unknown world in the "unfinished" online draft

Acquire skill - texture expression of different materials

This is a very interesting and somewhat dark decryption game. In the seemingly labyrinthine layout, players can only feel the whole game in a small space. From beginning to end, it is all black and white single line drawing style. The texture of all objects inside is represented by lines, which is a huge wealth for students majoring in illustration. You can see the creative expression of different materials.

The characters and scenes in the game are presented in a very strange and stylized line drawing form, which is very similar to the first step of drawing by students majoring in animation or illustration - line drawing. For students of these two majors, this is definitely a small game that can stimulate your creativity.

Euclidea

Recommended major landscape; Architecture; Visual communication; Graphic Artist Designer

Recommended reason - a game to make up for geometry lessons missed in those years

Acquire skills - geometric drawing; layout

Who is Euclid? There is a general existence of Leonardo da Vinci in the mathematical world. This game is based on Euclid's geometry. The playing method is very simple, that is, drawing with ruler and ruler. Players need to draw geometric figures in the shortest time according to the requirements of each level and the props given.

It seems that this is a game specially designed for math fans? But in fact, it is also applicable to you who major in art design! It's not the natural light that bothers you! It is a solemn recommendation to you. Geometry is an indispensable graphic element in art. Even complex graphics we see in our lives can always be divided simply through geometric splicing and combination.

In basic painting, our study often starts from a simple collection. For example, in layout design, proper proportion of layout and area division can highlight the key points of the layout and make readers have a clearer reading order and priority.

Code Tank

Recommended major - interaction design; Device; New media art; Computer Art

Recommended reason - can you play the tank war only when you can program?

Acquire Skill - Primary Code

Code, code, seeing this word, I believe that the smile on your face has gradually disappeared when you learn interaction design or computer art before your mobile phone. Before choosing interaction design, many students may think that interaction design is to design the visual part of a website page, or design the mobile phone interface. But they don't know that learning interaction design sometimes requires learning code, or even programming.

In this game, players need to write their own code to create tanks for war. The page is very simple, but it doesn't look easy either. Therefore, if you are a student majoring in interaction design who is learning boring programming, you may as well try programming to play a tank war.

Human resource machine

Recommended major - interaction design; Device; New media art; Computer Art

Recommended reason - you can also start programming by playing games

Acquire Skills - Basic Programming

Seeing the name of the game, does it feel like playing... no... go? Although this is a programming game, it is not as professional as the Code Tank described above.

As a game of simulation programming tutorial, the human resource machine visualizes the abstract programming language and presents it to players in a vivid visual form and game interaction. For students who are just beginning to learn interactive design and have a headache in programming learning, this game may make you fall in love with programming.

After recommending the above games, we return to the question we mentioned at the beginning of today: "Can you submit game cards for game design works?" Although the answer is very clear, no. Although the game is traditionally defined as a thing for entertainment, it can also become your learning tool, or be integrated into the collection of works studying abroad as a creative theme, making the game design collection more distinctive.

If you have any questions about the game design collection and the application for studying abroad, please come to Natural Light for free consultation!

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