?· Your presentation should include demo artwork
and a solid gameplay treatment.
?· If you do not secure funding, you can either return
to Step 1 and start over again on a new concept
1.8 Iterative process diagram
A Playcentric Design Process 15
16 Chapter 1: The Role of the Game Designer
The Iterative Design Process
by Eric Zimmerman, Cofounder and CEO, Gamelab
The following is adapted from a longer essay entitled ???Play as Research,??? which appears in the book Design
Research, edited by Brenda Laurel (MIT Press, 2004). It appears here with permission from the author.
Iterative design is a design methodology based on a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and
re?¬? ning a work in progress. In iterative design, interaction with the designed system is the basis of the design
process, informing and evolving a project as successive versions, or iterations, of a design are implemented.
This sidebar outlines the iterative process as it occurred in one game with which Eric was involved??”the online
multiplayer game SiSSYFiGHT 2000.
What is the process of iterative design? Test, analyze, re?¬? ne.
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