{"id":758,"date":"2011-12-19T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matheuspitillo.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2012-10-12T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T05:15:32","slug":"preparing-for-vfs-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matheuspitillo.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/preparing-for-vfs-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for VFS Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hey Folks, how are you? Everything here is terrific and I&#8217;m still in love with Vancouver. I hope this feeling\u00a0lasts\u00a0for a long\u00a0time. Today I&#8217;m here with an informative post that I guess can help some people prepare for classes in VFS. Actually, when you are accepted as a Game Design Student in VFS, they will send you a document saying what exactly you need to do, to be prepare for them. So, I&#8217;m just <em>re-writing<\/em> everything here to help those who haven&#8217;t seen this yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WHAT CAN I DO TO PREPARE FOR CLASSES?<br \/>\n<\/strong>These recommendations vary into books that you need to read, websites that you need to visit often and, of course, \u00a0games that you need to play. &#8211; Yeah! We play games to learn and work also. \ud83d\ude00 &#8211; Ok, so here we go the list of important things bellow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WEBSITES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gamasutra<\/strong> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\">http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com<\/a>) &#8211; Future Game Design students could probably spend endless hours of time reading articles on Gamesutra. This website provides a wide range of game and game development articles by current industry professionals. Gama sutra provides great insight into design ideas, principles, and will give a great understanding of the game development process.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alltop<\/strong> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.gaming.alltop.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaming.alltop.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gaming.alltop.com\/<\/a>) &#8211; Alltop provides a daily overview of the most talked about and exciting game-related news and stories from every major game website available.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Joystiq<\/strong> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/\">http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/<\/a>) &#8211; Joystiq is a daily blast of the most current and significant news from the game industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Focus on current articles. If you feel strongly that you need even more, check out gaming magazines such as Gamepro, Develop, or Game Developer Magazine, which is also available on Gamasutra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;A Theory of Fun&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> by Raph Kosters &#8211; This looks at basic fundamentals of what makes games fun, a key asset to any beginning game designer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman &#8211; This is provided as part of your tuition. It focuses on the principles of play, starting with the original card, dice and paper based gaming systems that create the foundation of any games rule set.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> by Jesse Schell &#8211; Incorporates a well ordered instruction to Game Design, and goes deeper into the notions of Game Design. This book discusses the idea that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality video games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GAME PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beat &#8217;em up and hack and slash<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fighting<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Platform games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">First-person shooter<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Third-person shooter<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Action-adventure<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stealth<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Survival horror<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Text adventure \/ Interactive fiction<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Graphic adventure<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Construction and management simulation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">God games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life simulation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social simulation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Role-playing Games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Massively multiplayer online role-playing<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Real-time strategy<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tower defense<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turn-based strategy<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flight simulation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Racing \/ Driving simulation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Space games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puzzle games<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sports games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And most importantly you should be playing games in all types of genres, not just the ones you prefer. Play everything! Play rentals, internet, Flash, phone games, and board games. Play any game you can get your hands on and play lots of them!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class='et-learn-more clearfix'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='heading-more'>acompanhe esse texto em portugu\u00eas<span class='et_learnmore_arrow'><span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='learn-more-content'><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ea\u00ed galerinha, tudo bem com voc\u00eas? Tudo por aqui est\u00e1 incr\u00edvel e eu ainda continuo apaixonado por Vancouver. Eu espero que esse sentimento dure por muito tempo ainda. Hoje eu estou aqui com um post informativo que eu acredito que possa ajudar algumas pessoas a se preparem para as aulas na VFS. Na verdade, quando voc\u00ea \u00e9 aceito como um estudante de Game Design na VFS, eles te enviam esse documento dizendo o que exatamente voc\u00ea precisa fazer para estar preparado para eles.\u00a0Ent\u00e3o eu estou apenas re-escrevendo tudo aqui para ajudar aqueles que ainda n\u00e3o leram isso.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>O QUE DEVO FAZER PARA ME PREPARAR PARA AS AULAS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong>\nEssas recomenda\u00e7\u00f5es variam entre livros que voc\u00ea precisa ler, websites que voc\u00ea precisa visitar frequentemente e, claro, jogos que voc\u00ea precisa jogar &#8211; Yeah! N\u00f3s jogamos para aprender e trabalhar tamb\u00e9m. \ud83d\ude00 &#8211; Ok, aqui esta a lista de coisas importantes abaixo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WEBSITES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gamasutra<\/strong> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\">http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com<\/a>) &#8211; Futuros estudantes de Game Design provavelmente gastam quantidades infinitas de tempo lendo artigos no Gamasutra. Este site fornece uma ampla gama de artigos de games e desenvolvimento de jogo de profissionais da ind\u00fastria atual. Gama Sutra proporciona grande insight sobre id\u00e9ias de design, princ\u00edpios e, possibilita uma grande compreens\u00e3o sobre o processo de desenvolvimento de jogos.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alltop<\/strong> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.gaming.alltop.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaming.alltop.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gaming.alltop.com\/<\/a>) \u2013 Alltop fornece uma vis\u00e3o di\u00e1ria das mais comentadas e emocionantes not\u00edcias relacionadas a games e hist\u00f3rias de cada site de jogos importantes dispon\u00edveis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joystiq<\/strong> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/\">http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/<\/a>) \u2013 Joystiq \u00e9 uma explos\u00e3o di\u00e1ria das not\u00edcias mais atuais e importantes da ind\u00fastria dos games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concentre-se em artigos atuais. Se voc\u00ea sente que voc\u00ea precisa de mais conte\u00fado, confira revistas de jogos como Gamepro, Develop ou Game Developer Magazine, que tamb\u00e9m est\u00e3o dispon\u00edveis no Gamasutra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LIVROS RECOMENDADOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>\u201cA Theory of Fun\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0de Raph Kosters \u2013\u00a0O livro foca-se nos fundamentos b\u00e1sicos do que faz os jogos serem divertidos, um elemento essencial para qualquer designer de jogos iniciantes.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>\u201cRules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0de Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman \u2013\u00a0Esse livro \u00e9 fornecido pela VFS como parte da sua matr\u00edcula. Centra-se nos princ\u00edpios do jogo, come\u00e7ando pelos famosos jogos de dados, cartas e pap\u00e9is baseados em sistemas de jogos que criam toda a base de qualquer conjunto de regras de jogos.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>\u201cThe Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0de Jesse Schell \u2013\u00a0Incorpora uma instru\u00e7\u00e3o bem ordenada para Game Design, e vai mais fundo nas no\u00e7\u00f5es do mesmo. Este livro discute a id\u00e9ia de que os mesmos princ\u00edpios b\u00e1sicos da psicologia que funcionam para jogos de tabuleiro, jogos de cartas e jogos esportivos tamb\u00e9m s\u00e3o as chaves para fazer jogos de alta qualidade para v\u00eddeo games. Vale lembrar que esse livro existe tamb\u00e9m em sua vers\u00e3o em Portugu\u00eas, a partir da revis\u00e3o t\u00e9cnica de <em>S\u00e9rgio Nesteriuk<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GAME PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beat \u2018em up and hack and slash<\/li>\n<li>Fighting<\/li>\n<li>Platform games<\/li>\n<li>First-person shooter<\/li>\n<li>Third-person shooter<\/li>\n<li>Action-adventure<\/li>\n<li>Stealth<\/li>\n<li>Survival horror<\/li>\n<li>Text adventure \/ Interactive fiction<\/li>\n<li>Graphic adventure<\/li>\n<li>Construction and management simulation<\/li>\n<li>God games<\/li>\n<li>Life simulation<\/li>\n<li>Social simulation<\/li>\n<li>Role-playing Games<\/li>\n<li>Massively multiplayer online role-playing<\/li>\n<li>Real-time strategy<\/li>\n<li>Tower defense<\/li>\n<li>Turn-based strategy<\/li>\n<li>Flight simulation<\/li>\n<li>Racing \/ Driving simulation<\/li>\n<li>Space games<\/li>\n<li>Music games<\/li>\n<li>Party games<\/li>\n<li>Puzzle games<\/li>\n<li>Sports games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">E o mais importante \u00e9 que voc\u00ea deve estar jogando games em todos os seus tipos e g\u00eaneros, n\u00e3o apenas aqueles de sua prefer\u00eancia. Jogue de tudo! Jogue os alugados, os de Internet, Flash, Celular e jogos de tabuleiro. Jogue qualquer jogo que voc\u00ea conseguir ter em suas m\u00e3os e jogue muitos deles!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Folks, how are you? Everything here is terrific and I&#8217;m still in love with Vancouver. I hope this feeling\u00a0lasts\u00a0for a long\u00a0time. Today I&#8217;m here with an informative post that I guess can help some people prepare for classes in VFS. 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