Introduction to (Tabletop) Role-playing Game Design

MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | 52 kbps | 48 KHz | Duration: 5 Hours | 1.60 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

A brief (4 hour) course to introduce you to RPG design. A section of "need to knows" about game design is included.

This brief (4 hour) course introduces you to RPG design. (No course of this length can pretend to be comprehensive, of course.) The goal is for you to understand the fundamentals of RPG design (which is a subset of game design). For example, what are you really doing when you "design an RPG?" There are at least three parts to that.

The three main sections are an introduction to game design (mainly "Need to Knows"), an introduction to RPG design, and a discussion of the business of RPG design. The primary purpose of the last is to help you understand why RPG design, especially tabletop, is very unlikely to earn you a living

Some of the videos in this course have been released on YouTube, hence the price is lower than would otherwise be the case.

What are the requirements?

Some familiarity with game design is useful, though the course provides a summary

What am I going to get from this course?

Over 33 lectures and 4.5 hours of content!

Understand the fundamentals of RPG design (which is a subset of game design)

Recognize that RPG design, especially tabletop, is very unlikely to earn you a living

What is the target audience?

This course is for inexperienced designers, taking you through "game design" quickly to RPG design and the business of RPG design