How to Become a Better Game Developer (MDA Framework)| Game Dev Theory #1

Become a better game developer in 30 minutes! This video will teach you one of the most important aspects of game development: how to design for player experience.

00:50 The MDA Framework 02:40 What Makes a Game Fun? 06:10 The Nine Different Reasons to Play 17:22 How Much Fun Should Your Game Have? 21:09 How to Use the MDA Framework Yourself 24:33 An Example How MDA Can Steer Game Design

Game developers can get stuck or sidetracked in their quest for delivering the next amazing game title. Often we, as game developers, focus on the mechanics and systems of our games. That makes sense as we code lines and draw details. The players, however, don't consume our game through the lines of code. The players consume the game from the player-experience, the fun, the emotions. Become a better game developer by crafting and designing that player-experience you want to deliver.

MDA framework used as a guide for game genres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepAJ-rqJKA Link to the entire MDA Paper: https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf

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