Trust me when I say this is a non technical post.
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Everyone would have played some game or the other in his/her lifetime. And surely, most would have played a lot of board games or games on electronic devices. So one day I wanted to design a game. A game, which you can play again and again, and not a game which has a definite solution to win. So that is what I intend to explain in this post.
How to design a game in 10 minutes
Step 1 Enroll yourself in a course of Basic Graph Theory in the maths dept, especially under the Prof S A Chaudum. It is a lovely course and the professor is really, as we use the word very often in insti, God in it. So complete the course fast and get an S grade( for people from outside insti it is 10 points ) in it. You are done with graph theory and the first step.
At this point you should be asking me a question.
"Would just a basic course in graph theory suffice to design a game or would you also need to take an advance course".
Trust me my friends, you are not planning to write a solution for the game, you just want to design it.
Step 2 Now enroll yourself in the Automata Theory(most correctly Languages, machines and computation ) course by Prof Kamala Krithivasan in CSE dept. Even this is an awesome course and taught very very well too. Successfully complete this course. Any grade is fine as long as you pass here.
At this point I had like to congratulate you. You are half done.
Step 3 This is the hardest step. Choose an NP-complete problem from graph theory and disguise it as well as you can into some real world objects and their relation. Sprinkle some player interaction so that the game is not something which one player can play independently of the other. Choose a scoring system and you are done. Hurray!! All this shouldn't take more than 9 minutes.
Step 4 This is the easiest step of all. After commercializing this game and marketing it well, you'll be earning millions. Just write me a check for a million dollars. It shouldn't take more than a minute.
That is it. You have designed a game in 10 minutes. Your name will be etched forever in the glorious books of history in bold golden letters.
If you have any technical questions you can directly ask me by mailing me or asking your questions in the comments section. For these people the post ends right here.
At this point I believe some of you might have some questions for me. If you want to ask
"How does semester + semester + 9 minutes + 1 minute add up to 10 minutes?"
I would just like to say to those people that this post was intended only for the students who are pursuing their Master of Arts in IITM or those who've passed out recently ( yes, the first batch of MA students have finally passed out of IIT and god save them ).
Disclaimer: This post was written in the most serious of senses and the author should be forgiven for any non seriousness that might be apparent to the reader in this post.
Ignore the 'Read more' button here. This is the end of the post.
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Everyone would have played some game or the other in his/her lifetime. And surely, most would have played a lot of board games or games on electronic devices. So one day I wanted to design a game. A game, which you can play again and again, and not a game which has a definite solution to win. So that is what I intend to explain in this post.
How to design a game in 10 minutes
Step 1 Enroll yourself in a course of Basic Graph Theory in the maths dept, especially under the Prof S A Chaudum. It is a lovely course and the professor is really, as we use the word very often in insti, God in it. So complete the course fast and get an S grade( for people from outside insti it is 10 points ) in it. You are done with graph theory and the first step.
At this point you should be asking me a question.
"Would just a basic course in graph theory suffice to design a game or would you also need to take an advance course".
Trust me my friends, you are not planning to write a solution for the game, you just want to design it.
Step 2 Now enroll yourself in the Automata Theory(most correctly Languages, machines and computation ) course by Prof Kamala Krithivasan in CSE dept. Even this is an awesome course and taught very very well too. Successfully complete this course. Any grade is fine as long as you pass here.
At this point I had like to congratulate you. You are half done.
Step 3 This is the hardest step. Choose an NP-complete problem from graph theory and disguise it as well as you can into some real world objects and their relation. Sprinkle some player interaction so that the game is not something which one player can play independently of the other. Choose a scoring system and you are done. Hurray!! All this shouldn't take more than 9 minutes.
Step 4 This is the easiest step of all. After commercializing this game and marketing it well, you'll be earning millions. Just write me a check for a million dollars. It shouldn't take more than a minute.
That is it. You have designed a game in 10 minutes. Your name will be etched forever in the glorious books of history in bold golden letters.
If you have any technical questions you can directly ask me by mailing me or asking your questions in the comments section. For these people the post ends right here.
At this point I believe some of you might have some questions for me. If you want to ask
"How does semester + semester + 9 minutes + 1 minute add up to 10 minutes?"
I would just like to say to those people that this post was intended only for the students who are pursuing their Master of Arts in IITM or those who've passed out recently ( yes, the first batch of MA students have finally passed out of IIT and god save them ).
Disclaimer: This post was written in the most serious of senses and the author should be forgiven for any non seriousness that might be apparent to the reader in this post.
Ignore the 'Read more' button here. This is the end of the post.
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