Ultimate Game Design : Building game worlds

Building Game Worlds
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Early Game Setup Screen
Figure E-2 is an example of a game management screen that allows players to join or
create a game and to chat with other players in the game lobby while waiting for a
game to begin. Ideally, you don’t want to embed physical screen window sizes or backgrounds
into the screen graphics. If you do, they become more difficult to change.
Instead, as best you can, you will want to allow these sizes to be tuned for optimum
balance on the screen. As you might imagine, there are often one or two screen
categories that simply require more display room by their very definition.
Game Details
The example shown in Figure E-3 demonstrates an early version of a game-detailing
screen. Once a player has created a game, many game settings, like a player’s choice
of home stadium, game length, and/or several game conditions, can be adjusted
FIGURE E-2
Clubhouse/game setup