2026-0316-2303 game design is about experience design

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A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude. - Jesse Schell
Games are interactive experiences involving conflict and choice. - Chris Crawford
Games are problem-solving activities with goals and restrictions. - Mark Rosewater
Game design is the art of pruning possibility space. - Will Wright

请理解我下面的内容，帮助我制作一个完整的 PPT（英文版本），其面向的对象是大一学生。

Please take this as a discussion not a sharing
- Those are my personal thinking, not the right answer, not the only answer
- Feel free to interrupt or ask any questions that comes to your mind, your questions may also inspire others
- The goal is not to get something, but to think in your way
Title - Game design is experience design
What you will get after this discussion?
- A thinking framework about game and game design - which could help you understand how design choices are made
who am I?
- 2016-2020 UESTC - Affecting Time Perception in VR
- 2020-2022 UCPH - Improving User Experience by Affecting Time Perception in VR
- 2022-2025 Ubisoft Shanghai - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- 2026-Now NetEase ThunderFire - Blood Message
What are games
- A game is a series of interesting choices. - Sid Meier
- Games are mental models. - Will Wright
- Games are learning machines. (fun is the act of mastering patterns) - Raph Koster
- Games are predefined media allowing meaningful engagement. - Me
- Find your answer
what is game design
- Game design is Experience design. - Jesse Schell / David Maurin
case study of experiences design
- example of Dark Souls - Tomb of the Giants (3 mins video of playthrough)
- do you feel anything?
- what do you feel?
- why you feel it?
  - resonates with personal experience and imagination
- how designers makes you feel that?
  - use design levers to make the resonation and imagination possible
- what we have been through is the process of experience design
  - perception - rationalize - deconstruct - reconstruct
- what is commonly recognized as game design relates to reconstruction mostly. but it is just a small part of the life-cycle of game design, a even smaller part of game production.
  - we could discuss more about it in the future if we have chance.
ending
- Q - ask yourself, what experience you would like players to feel, remember, and share with others?
- A - feel it (perception) - name it (rationalize) - abstract the core of it (deconstruct) - do it your way (reconstruct)

好，先给 PPT 结构，再说 check-in 排查结论。

一、游戏设计分享 — PPT 完整结构

整体节奏（45 分钟）

Opening           3 min
What are games    10 min
What is design    5 min
How to design     22 min  ← 重心
Closing           5 min

Slide 1 — Opening

Discussion, not sharing

Personal thinking, not the right answer. Feel free to interrupt. The goal is to think in your own way.

[背景：简历时间线，一张图带过 UESTC → UCPH → Ubisoft → NetEase]

Slide 2-3 — What are games?

四个设计师的答案

设计师	定义
Sid Meier	A series of interesting choices
Will Wright	Mental models
Raph Koster	Learning machines (fun = mastering patterns)
无涘	Predefined media allowing meaningful engagement

Notice: your answer reveals what kind of designer you'll become.

[互动] How would you define it?

补充一句话：这些定义没有对错，但你对游戏的理解，会决定你做出什么样的游戏。

Slide 4 — What is game design?

Game design = Experience design

Jesse Schell / David Maurin

这是今天讨论的基础命题，接下来我们聊的一切都从这里出发。

Slide 5-8 — How to design experiences?

Slide 5：案例引入

Dark Souls — Tomb of the Giants

[播放/展示片段：进入巨人墓地的时刻——从明亮区域突然进入完全黑暗]

Slide 6：四个引导问题（隐性走一遍框架）

① 如果你是玩家，你会有什么感受？

→ [让大家说，收集答案：恐惧、迷失、不安、好奇……]

→ 这就是 Perception

② 设计师通过什么方法实现了这些感受？这些感受的核心是什么？

→ [引导讨论：光源剥夺、视野压缩、声音设计、敌人分布……] → [归纳核心：「掌控感的剥夺」或「已知规则的崩塌」]

→ 这就是 Rationalize → Deconstruct

③ 如果换你来做，传递类似的感受，你会怎么做？

→ [开放讨论，不限介质：可以是声音、颜色、信息量……]

→ 这就是 Reconstruct

Slide 7：框架命名

Perception  →  Rationalize  →  Deconstruct  →  Reconstruct
  感受            理解              解构              重构

我们通常说的「游戏设计」，涉及最多的是 Reconstruct 这个部分。但它只是整个设计过程的一小部分—— 而游戏设计，又只是整个游戏生产生命周期的一小部分。

Slide 8：「大部分」是什么？

为什么大多数人跳过了前三个阶段？

因为它们不像「工作」：打游戏、看电影、和人聊感受——这看起来不是在设计。但没有它们，Reconstruct 只是在复制别人已经做过的东西，不是从感受出发的创造。

前三个阶段需要刻意训练，因为它们要求你先成为一个敏感的感受者，再成为设计师。

Slide 9 — Closing

The question that matters:

What experience would you like players to feel, remember, and share?

The process:

Feel it → Name it → Abstract the core → Do it your way

[留白，不展开，让大家带着这个问题走]

补充说明（讲者备注，不上 PPT）

Slide 2 视角不对称不需要补——「What is game design」只有一条是刻意的：命题本身就是今天的核心，不需要辩论
Slide 7 最后那两句关于生命周期，只是一句带过的补充，不展开
Slide 8 是今天最需要想清楚再讲的地方，这是框架的灵魂

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