Fundamentals of Role-Playing Game Design

by Ernest Adams

You understand the basic concepts of game gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the role-playing game genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for the role-playing game genre and shows you how to use the right techniques to create fun and challenging experiences for your players.

Genres: Game Design, Nonfiction

59 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 25, 2014

About the author

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Ernest Adams is founder of the International Game Developers Association, a game design consultant and author on game development.

He started out in the game industry in 1989 as a software engineer and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Computing and Mathematics at Teesside University for his work on interactive storytelling.

Reviews

[Alper Yılmaz]

Handbook of basic info on (mostly digital) RPGs. Surprisingly comprehensive and includes some nice quick tips, though just playing a bunch of RPGs and analyzing them will also give you the same knowhow. Still, very well done for what it is.

[John]

Combination reference book and field manual akin to "The Sibley Guide to Birds" except for role-playing games.