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Game designers need to test their ideas quickly and efficiently before committing significant resources. This course teaches you how to use simple prototyping tools to develop game concepts without coding or artistic assets, enabling rapid iteration and feedback. Students will explore a game design framework covering goals, opposition, decisions, rules, and interaction patterns while learning to create compelling one-page design documents to communicate their vision to production, marketing, and engineering teams. Practical exercises will focus on prototyping a fictional game concept, emphasizing emotional engagement and core gameplay mechanics. Throughout the course, you will consider real-world constraints like audience needs, platform limitations, and budget challenges. You will leave the course able to validate game ideas efficiently and align teams through practical prototyping techniques, giving you the skills to reduce risk in game development. This course is ideal for aspiring designers or professionals seeking to enhance their pre-production abilities.