List of Game Design Challenges

[Adrir]

The Design Challenge is an exercise in becoming a game developer, asking you to look at games in a new way -- from the perspective of a game creator, producer, marketer, businessperson, and so forth.

Once a week, a design question will be proposed. There will be one week to answer it. The following week, the best answers and the names of those who submitted them will be posted along with some commentary.

Previous Game Design Challenges (2010):

• Time for Change (May 26th)
• Inappropriate Title (May 5th)
• iPad (April 14th)
• Rickroll (March 24th)
• Romance (February 23rd)
• A New Challenge (February 3rd)
• Free to Play (January 13th)

Previous Game Design Challenges (2009):

• More Photographic Interpretations (December 23rd)
• The New Sound (December 3rd)
• Sidekick (Novemeber 12th)
• Photographic Interpretations (October 21st)
• Literary Inspirations (September 30th)
• Be The Hero! (September 2nd)
• The Letter (August 12th)
• Rebooting The Series (July 22nd)
• DS Platforming Innovation (July 1st)
• Creating Fun Communication (June 10th)
• The Crisis of Credit (May 20th)
• Change Mario's Career (April 29th)
• DSiWare (April 8th)
• Fresh Horror (March 18th)
• Architectural Pursuits (February 25th)
• Restaurant Game (February 4th)
• Seuss It (January 28th)
• Why Did Frogger Cross the Road? (January 21st)
• Balance Board (January 14th)
• Gravity Game (January 7th)

Previous Game Design Challenges (2008):

• Dress My Sackboy (December 31st)
• Eco-Racing Wars (December 24th)
• Collector's Edition (December 10th)
• Cut the Cutscene (November 26th)
• Insomnia (November 19th)
• The Time Experiment (November 12th)
• Achievement (November 5th)
• Black History Month (October 29th)
• One More Lemming! (October 22nd)
• Fantasy: Game Development! (October 15th)
• No Jumping! (October 8th)
• Guitar's The Word (September 24th)
• Make Monopoly Fun! (September 17th)
• Marketing Bullets (September 10th)
• Fantasy RPG Quest (September 3rd)
• The Olympics (August 17th)
• Weapon (August 20th)
• Satire (August 13th)
• Hero (August 6th)
• Player Aid (July 23rd)
• iPhone Exclusive (July 16th)
• Spoken Word (July 8th)
• ESP Game (July 2nd)
• The Crate (June 25th)
• Level Design Cues (June 18th)
• One Button (June 11th)
• Rename Katamari Damacy (June 4th)
• Teaching Hamlet (May 29th)
• MMORPG For Kids (May 21st)
• World War II Shooter (May 7th)
• The Gun (April 30th)
• Mini Racing Games (April 23rd)
• Children's PE Game (April 16th)
• Fantasy MMORPG Classes (April 9th)

Disclaimer: Although I am maintaining this list of game design challenges in order to support those members who may be interested, I am in no way connected to or responsible for the Game Design Challenges. I am not a member of GameCareerGuide staff. The content of this post has been adapted from existing features and forum posts.

[jillduffy]

Note: I'll use this message slot to provide updates each week. Adrir can incorporate them as they come.

[Marco Roy]

Deadlines:

Originally Posted by jillduffy

We're all in different time zones and such, so "by June 25" really just means try to get it in before you go to bed on June 25, whatever your time zone may be. The contest judges (me and any additional special guests) will not start judging submissions until the following day.

Occasionally if you send an email to the submission address asking for one or two days extension, you will get it. If you send a submission three or four days later, though, you're SOL.

[bittman]

Originally Posted by jillduffy

Note: I'll use this message slot to provide updates each week. Adrir can incorporate them as they come.

Appears this didn't happen, but I'd truly appreciate if the Moderator's could also provided a link to the results of the challenges beside the challenges in the list above.

Appreciation in advance for anyone who does this.

[Sara jones]

Wow! thanks for sharing all those above links.

[bob]

Hi Mods,

Is there some way the winners of the challenge could be displayed with each one? That's the coolest part.

[Adrir]

Hi bob and bittman,

I originally created this thread from a suggestion by a friend to help people to tackle the challenges they might have missed. As such, posting links to the results wouldn't be much fun!

If you really want to see the results, then I suggest using google with "site:gamecareerguide.com" as a prefix in your search criteria. The relevent articles arn't that hard to find.

[sophia55ggh]

Wow that's cool list.I think the all youngsters who want to go for a game career,they will definitely like to read it.They will know a lot of things.

[Architect]

A great way to do talent scouting :P

[Adrir]

I've cleaned, reformatted and updated the list - so anyone planning on blitzing through some of the previous challenges may do so!

Have fun.