Game Design: Balancing Gameplay
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Four-week CalArts course taught by Fran Krause on designing characters for games, with guest sessions from artists behind Adventure Time, Journey and SpongeBob. Learners practise proportion, mood and silhouette, then refine their own character through peer-reviewed drawing assignments.
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GDC Vault is a comprehensive archive of Game Developers Conference talks, tutorials, and postmortems, featuring video recordings, slides, and notes on game design, mechanics, programming, and production.