page_title: Game design
hierarchical_section_title: Game design
caption_attribution_description: English: Diamond Trust of London paper prototype. Released in 2012, the game was developed by Jason Rohrer, with music by Tom Bailey. The game and its supporting assets have been released into the public domain and is hosted on SourceForge at http://hcsoftware.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/hcsoftware/DiamondTrust/summary Rohrer prototyped the game on paper before committing to code. A zoomed out photograph of the same scene is available at File:Diamond Trust of London - Paper Prototype.jpg.
context_page_description: Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification.
  Game design creates goals, rules and challenges to define a board game, card game, dice game, casino game, role-playing game, sport, video game, war game or simulation that produces desirable interactions among its participants and, possibly, spectators.
  Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making. Games have historically inspired seminal research in the fields of probability, artificial intelligence, economics, and optimization theory. Applying game design to itself is a current research topic in metadesign.
context_section_description: Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification.
  Game design creates goals, rules and challenges to define a board game, card game, dice game, casino game, role-playing game, sport, video game, war game or simulation that produces desirable interactions among its participants and, possibly, spectators.
  Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired seminal research in the fields of probability, artificial intelligence, economics, and optimization theory. Applying game design to itself is a current research topic in metadesign.
caption: A paper prototype made as part of the design process of the video game Diamond Trust of London
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