Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers

by Ethan Ham

Learn the mechanics that take your game from an idea to a playable product. Do you aspire to be a game designer but aren’t sure where to begin? Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers guides you through your initial attempts to design game mechanics. It goes beyond simple description and definition to explore in detail the issues that designers grapple with for every game they create. Learning to design tabletop games builds a solid foundation for game designers and provides methods that can be applied towards creating paper prototypes of computer-targeted games. Presented in a step-by-step format, Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers helps the reader understand how the game design skills that are acquired through creating tabletop games can be used when designing video games. Fully playable games accompany every topic so you can truly understand and experience each component that goes into game creation. Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers

Genres: Game Design, Games

348 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Matteo Menapace · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book mixes the theory and practice of game design extremely well. There are plenty of print-and-play examples and short exercises to solidify your learning, plus designers interviews peppering it throughout. Highly recommended to both analog and digital game designers!