Arthur Fostier | Games Design & Production

Card Hero - A Guitar Hero IP Tabletop Project Picture on an example of an ongoing session Platform/Genre: Tabletop Players: 4 players only (1 BOSS Member and 3 BAND Members) Can your BAND beat the BOSS of Rock? In this card game, a BOSS plays his master SONG against the brave BAND who dared challenge him. Every NOTE card hit by the BAND improves their overall performance, but the BOSS won’t let the BAND beat his SONG so easily, using every trick he can to stop them! Why create this game? The reason of the game’s creation is apply content learned in Module 1 and 2 of the Games Design & Production course, by producing a non-commercial product that reflects the learning outcomes required in the Module Brief. The artefact should demonstrate the capacity of the author to design a fully playable tabletop game by using specific Process of Design methodologies and Game Design fundamental skills, tied to a fixed deadline and brief. What is unique about this

Prince of Persia main screen  The acclaimed cinematic side platformer features the ancient Persia in a simple but strong plot. The adventure consists in a fast-paced run in the dungeons of Jaffar, the Sultan’s vizier, who imprisoned her daughter in order to claim the realm for himself. To rescue the princess from a terrible doom, the protagonist of the game must escape the underground prison and defeat the malicious wizard, becoming the new Prince of Persia. The wizard Zaffar forces the princess to marry him within one hour or she will die The title was originally published in 1989 by Brøderbund for the Apple II, and was ported to many other platforms after its great success on the market, leading to many sequels and reboots. The unique visual features of its subgenre inspired many other games, such as Another World, Flashback and Tomb Raider. History Prince of Persia’s designer, Jordan Mechner, was inspired by many sources, in particular adventure movies like “Raid

'Lunar Lander' start screen The year of 1979 was full of excitements for the gaming universe, it represented the early stages of the Golden Age of arcades, where titles as Galaxian, Adventure and Alakabeth marked the history of gaming. And it was also in this year that Atari released Lunar Lander, the most known variation of all concepts, dating back to ten years before the Atari game. Lunar Lander is a space flight simulator which features a little spaceship with limited fuel and a 2D lunar landscape. The objective is to make the spaceship land safely on the Moon using a propeller located at its bottom. The game ends when the fuel tank is empty and the spaceship crashes. History ‘Lunar Landing Game’, from 1969  (released months after the Apollo 11 mission) Even if the Atari’s Lunar Lander has an important place in gaming history, it is not the first version of the game. The prime concept was developed by Jim Stores in 1969 on a PDP-8 minicomputer, the s

Bethesda, the publisher of many ‘Triple-A’ titles has released a new videogame in the March of 2017. In association with Dire Wolf Digital they developed an adaptation of a saga considered to be one of the masterpieces of RPG’s. The game is The Elder Scrolls: Legends, a collectable card game sharing the same universe of the Elder Scrolls fantasy series. The game is now available on PC and Mac, as well in the App Store and Google Play for the mobile platforms, making it a very portable game to play at home or in the go… And for free as well! Yes, it is a free-to-play title, and that is something that always scares me when I am about to jump into a new game. More often than I’d like to admit I find myself in a situation where I can’t progress without spending money on micro-transactions or just disappointing myself on a badly produced free game, but fortunately I was not let down on this card game, as it feels very ‘free-to-play’ friendly, offering options for new players such