How Do You Learn Role-Playing Game Design?
Role-playing games are some of the most time-consuming, complex, challenging and rewarding games for players–but even more so for developers. This type of game combines the challenge of crafting a compelling story, creating entertaining and challenging game mechanics, and building a small world around it all. If you’re making the game for a computer, you also have to program it and tie an interesting visual style to the whole package. The best way to learn how to make one of these games is by playing them and experimenting with your own. Play and research other RPGs, both pen and paper games and those on various video game consoles. The genre is packed with mediocre and average games, but a handful stand out. Explore the good and the bad, so you can determine what makes these games successful and what elements are more frustrating than beneficial. Take notes on these. Build the character creation and battle systems of the game. Start on paper, building a system of character statistics
