Section Introduction: Art and Design

• These sections will cover the design of games.
• How to make highly optimised assets.
• Art choices that affect game mood.
• Video game genres and their distinctions.
• Identifying different video game mechanics.

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Game Art Principles » Non-Player Characters 1/2

• Importing Unity Packages.
• Using a Third Party Prefab.
• Meshes, Vertices, Triangles and Polygons.
• Rigging, Skeletons and Bones.
• Applying Materials to Meshes.

Game Art Principles » Non-Player Characters 2/2

• Understanding performance bottlenecks.
• CPU vs GPU bound games.
• Describe methods to optimize model assets.
• Rules of thumb for optimizing characters.

Game Art Principles » Concept & Environment Design

• Summarize how art choices affect mood.
• Explain the purpose of concept art.
• Explain the concept of “unifying colour”.
• Why colour palettes matter.
• Complementary and analogue colours.