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Game Design: Principles, Practice, and Techniques - The Ultimate Guide for the Aspiring Game Designer
Practical, complete coverage of game design basics from design process to production
This full-color, structured coursebook offers complete coverage of game design basics, focusing on design rather than computer programming. Packed with exercises, assignments, and step-by-step instructions, it starts with an overview of design theory, then progresses to design processes, and concludes with coverage of design production.
Jim Thompson, Barnaby Berbank-Green, and Nic Cusworth (London, UK) are computer game designers and lecturers in animation and computer game design.
This full-color, structured coursebook offers complete coverage of game design basics, focusing on design rather than computer programming. Packed with exercises, assignments, and step-by-step instructions, it starts with an overview of design theory, then progresses to design processes, and concludes with coverage of design production.
Jim Thompson, Barnaby Berbank-Green, and Nic Cusworth (London, UK) are computer game designers and lecturers in animation and computer game design.
192 pages, ebook
First published March 9, 2007
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Jim Thompson
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March 28, 2015
A good overview of what makes each genre of game unique and the design/production process of video and computer games. Not so good for learning how or why a game design/mechanic does or doesn't work.
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