April 7th, 2021

Who am I?

  • 2000: Bilkent, Industrial Eng.
  • 2002: Bilkent, Computer Eng.
  • 2008: Waterloo, Computer Science
  • 2009: Izmir University of Economics
  • 2012: TED University
  • 2014: Hacettepe University
    • Institute of Population Studies
    • Institute of Informatics
      • Computer Graphics
        • Computer Animation and Game Technologies
    • Computer Engineering

What do I work on?

  • Data mining
  • Computational geometry
  • Information visualization
  • Natural Language Processing

What is game prototyping?

A definition

Game prototyping is quickly developing a cheap and rough model for the sake of communicating, testing, and challenging a game idea.

Prototype quickly

Prototype cheap

Prototype rough

Why should we prototype?

Game development is costly

Game development takes a long time

Present the idea

Take feedback

You never know it works, before it does

Risk management

Record ideas

When should we prototype?

Prototype early

Live prototyping

How to prototype?

Types of prototypes

  • Physical
    • Paper prototypes
    • Drawings
  • Digital
    • Software prototypes
    • Audio/Video Prototypes

Paper prototypes

Drawings

Software prototypes

Examples