The art of game design : a book of lenses

Summary: Presents the fundamentals of game design from one of the world's top game designers. Exploring the unusual territory that is game design, the book demonstrates how the basic principles of psychology used in board games, card games, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. The author gives readers 100+ sets of insightful questions to ask themselves to make their games better. These questions provide insight from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology.

Record details

ISBN: 9781498717328
ISBN: 1498717322
ISBN: 9780123694966
ISBN: 0123694965
ISBN: 1466598646
ISBN: 9781466598645
ISBN: 0429169752
ISBN: 9780429169755
ISBN: 1498756565
ISBN: 9781498756563
ISBN: 1498759564
ISBN: 9781498759564
ISBN: 1466598670
ISBN: 9781466598676
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. In the beginning, there is the designer -- 2. The designer creates an experience -- 3. The experience takes place in a venue -- 4. The experience rises out of a game -- 5. The game consists of elements -- 6. The elements support a theme -- 7. The game begins with an idea -- 8. The game improves through iteration -- 9. The game is made for a player -- 10. The experience is in the player's mind -- 11. The player's mind is driven by the player's motivation -- 12. Some elements are game mechanics -- 13. Game mechanics must be in balance -- 14. Game mechanics support puzzles -- 15. Players play games through an interface -- 16. Experiences can be judged by their interest curves -- 17. One kind of experience is the story -- 18. Story and game structures can be artfully merged with indirect control -- 19. Stories and games take place in worlds -- 20. Worlds contain characters -- 21. Worlds contain spaces -- 22. The look and feel of a world is defined by its aesthetics -- 23. Some games are played with other players -- 24. Other players sometimes form communities -- 25. The designer usually works with a team -- 26. The team sometimes communicates through documents -- 27. Good games are created through playtesting -- 28. The team builds a game with technology -- 29. Your game will probably have a client -- 30. The designer gives the client a pitch -- 31. The designer and client want the game to make a profit -- 32. Games transform their players -- 33. Designers have certain responsibilities -- 34. Each designer has a purpose.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed June 2, 2016).