Lucien Chen: The Thinking Behind Game Design

It has been held for three times: two times for on-site workshops and one time for online workshop.

From the 5 steps of design thinking (empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test) to soft and hard skills, Lucien shared his experiences of designing games and solving problems. His working experience with big international companies are different from working with companies in Taiwan, but it brings new thoughts for the attendees.

◆Speaker: Lucien Chen

Lucien Chen is a Level Designer at Swedish company King and working on the famous mobile game Candy Crush. He has been a Game Designer over 10 years, he worked at EA, Sony PlayStation VR, Storm 8 ... etc, and has worked on a variety of projects on Mobile, Console, VR, and AR. His own game Anamorphosis was nominated at SENSE OF WONDER NIGHT (Tokyo Game Show 2015.) He was also invited to be the speaker at 2020 Game Developers Conference and 2020 Taipei Game Developers Forum.


👉 Medium: https://lucigamedesign543.medium.com
👉 IG:https://www.instagram.com/lucigamedeaign543
👉 FB:https://www.facebook.com/gamedesign543


Interviews:
|GDC Summer 2020(Game Developer Conference)
👉 link
|2020 台北遊戲開發者論壇(TGDF,Taipei Game Developers Forum)
👉 link
|Gamasutra-Anamorphosis:
👉 link
|巴哈姆特報導-Anamorphosis:
👉 link

◆The main subjects Timmo Sung shared in the workshop:

✸ How to design games.
➜ What is game? Why is designing more important than planning? How to be a game designer with soft and hard skills?

✸ Analyzing games
➜ How to design games with design thinking?

✸ The thoughts that makes you moving further.
➜ What kinds of skills won’t be expired? What is the most important thing for designing games?


兩堂實體課、一堂線上課程和影片票課程
感謝 Lucien分享許多遊戲設計的想法與經驗!

Lucien以自身在遊戲界闖蕩的經歷
從美國Play Station到瑞典的King
分享在工作上發生的難題和趣事
以及國外產業工作的經驗。

從遊戲設計的根本開始談起
再帶到設計思維(Design Thinking) 的五個步驟
Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
以及「硬實力 vs 軟實力」這兩種能力
運用這些來分析他在遊戲設計的路上遇過的問題
以及用哪些方法和能力來解決

謝謝來參加的大家,希望大家都有所收穫喔!
也歡迎大家踴躍問問題
Lucien不怕被問倒只怕大家不問!
大家也可以去Lucien的粉絲專頁看看

Luci's Game Design 543


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講師介紹

👩🏻‍🎨 Lucien Chen

土生土長歹丸狼(台灣人),現居瑞典斯德哥爾摩。
現任職於手機遊戲公司King
負責為全球知名手機遊戲 Candy Crush 系列作品擔任資深遊戲與關卡設計師。

從小學畫畫,立志進入遊戲產業
大學就讀全台第一所遊戲開發相關科系。
畢業後前往於美國匹茲堡
於卡內基美濃大學娛樂科技中心研究所
(Carnegie Mellon University - Entertainment Technology Center)
攻讀遊戲設計與開發。

曾任職於美國多家知名遊戲公司
包含Electronic Arts (美商藝電)、SONY PlayStation、Storm8... 等。
旅外10年的遊戲開發經驗
曾參與過各種不同平台的遊戲開發:Console、PC、Moible、VR、AR... 等。

曾以獨立開發作品 Anamorphosis(暫譯: 幻境奇繪)
入圍2015年東京電玩展 SENSE OF WONDER NIGHT 決賽
獲得外國遊戲媒體(Gamasutra、Rock Paper Shotgun...etc)的關注與報導。
於2020年獲邀參加於美國加州遊戲開發者大會(Game Developers Conference)
與台北遊戲開發者論壇(TGDF,Taipei Game Developers Forum)擔任講者。


更多Lucien Chen的資訊:
👉 Medium: https://lucigamedesign543.medium.com
👉 IG:https://www.instagram.com/lucigamedeaign543
👉 FB粉專:https://www.facebook.com/gamedesign543


Lucien Chen相關報導/影片:
|GDC Summer 2020(Game Developer Conference)
👉 頁面連結

|2020 台北遊戲開發者論壇(TGDF,Taipei Game Developers Forum)
👉 影片連結

|Gamasutra報導-Anamorphosis:
👉 頁面連結

|巴哈姆特報導-Anamorphosis:
👉 頁面連結


 
Angie Hu

Angie is a serial entrepreneur, artist agent, consultant, designer, artist, and founder of Hu Creates Limited based in Taipei, Taiwan. She had graduated from Illustration/Entertainment Design major in Art Center College of Design ( Pasadena, Los Angeles). Angie is also a former concept artist and designer in Zynga LA and Disney Consumer Products. With her multi-skills and working experiences in the industry, Angie is also an artist agent to help artists exceeding their potentials. Her company Hu Creates Co., Limited is a licensing agency representing a group of talented artists with viral content.

For personal works, Angie is obsessed with doing cat arts, bright and fun illustrations with childlike and whimsical styles.

👑Angie – 胡安之

Hu Creates Limited 創辦人/概念設計師/插畫家/講師/顧問/策展人/藝術經紀。

畢業於洛杉磯 Art Center College of Design設計藝術中心學院。

曾任迪士尼、社交遊戲大廠Zynga資深概念設計師與UI設計師,

並利用業餘時間承接歐美娛樂圈相關美術與設計案件與經營個人品牌。

2016年回台後成立Hx2 Studio,參與歐美與中國大陸遊戲動畫設計案,與舉辦大型設計藝術相關活動。2019轉型為獨資公司Hu Creates Limited,2020年轉為做圖像代理授權,代理藝術家不二馬大叔、新夭、Jay Rock..等等藝術家作品,協助優質IP推廣海外市場。


https://www.hucreates.com
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