Chapter 1 The Role of the Game Designer
Chapter 2 The Structure of Games
Chapter 3 Working with Formal Elements
Chapter 4 Working with Dramatic Elements
Chapter 5 Working with System Dynamics
Chapter 6 Conceptualization
Chapter 7 Prototyping
Chapter 8 Digital Prototyping
Chapter 9 Playtesting
Chapter 10 Functionality, Completeness, and Balance
Chapter 11 Fun and Accessibility
Chapter 12 Team Structures
Chapter 13 Stages of Development
Chapter 14 The Design Document
Chapter 15 Understanding the Game Industry
Chapter 16 Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to the Game Industry

This book helps you to create the digital games you love to play, using a non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic experience.

Award-winning author Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with clear and accessible guidance on the formal and dramatic systems of game design. Using examples of popular games, illustrations of design techniques, and refined exercises to strengthen your understanding of how game systems function, the book gives you the skills and tools necessary to create a compelling and engaging game.

This fully updated 4th edition includes expanded coverage of new platforms and genres of play, including casual games and games for learning. It expands on agile development processes and includes a host of new perspectives from top industry game designers.

Game Design Workshop puts you to work prototyping, playtesting, and revising your own games with time-tested methods and tools. These skills will provide the foundation for your career in any facet of the game industry including design, producing, programming, and visual design.

Game Design Workshop. A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Fourth Edition

Table of Lenses
Hello
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. Some Interfaces Create a Feeling of Presence
23. The Look and Feel of a World Is Defined by Its Aesthetics
24. Some Games Are Played with Other Players
25. Other Players Sometimes Form Communities
26. The Designer Usually Works with a Team
27. The Team Sometimes Communicates through Documents
28. Good Games Are Created through Playtesting
29. The Team Builds a Game with Technology
30. Your Game Will Probably Have a Client
31. The Designer Gives the Client a Pitch
32. The Designer and Client Want the Game to Make a Profit
33. Games Transform Their Players
34. Designers Have Certain Responsibilities
35. Each Designer Has a Purpose
Goodbye
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Presents over 100 sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design. Written by one of the world's top game designers, this book describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design, demonstrating how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in video games. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again. New to this edition: many great examples from new VR and AR platforms as well as examples from modern games such as Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us, Free to Play games, hybrid games, transformational games, and more.

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition

INTRODUCTION
PART 1: Deconstruction
1. Why Feel, Why Now?
2. The Grand Scheme of Game Design
3. Games that don't Feature Virtual Sensation
4. What is Feel?
5. Where Does Feel Exist?
PART 2: Classification
6. Genres: the Ugly Legacy
7. Foundation for Classification
8. Virtual Sensitivity
9. Constraints Define Sensation
10. The Role of Sound
11. Ancillary Indicators
12. The Importance of Metaphor
13. How People Perceive Things
14. A New Taxonomy of Feel in Games
15. A Brief History of Feel in Games
PART 3: Measurement
16. Existing Game Metrics
17. How to Measure Feel
18. Four Metrics for Feel
PART 4: Creation
19. Exercises
20. Feel the Future
21. Where Can Feel Go?

"Game Feel" exposes "feel" as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord progressions, verse) - no matter the instruments, style or time period - these building blocks come into play. Feel and sensation are similar building blocks where game design is concerned. They create the meta-sensation of involvement with a game.

The understanding of how game designers create feel, and affect feel are only partially understood by most in the field and tends to be overlooked as a method or course of study, yet a game's feel is central to a game's success. This book brings the subject of feel to light by consolidating existing theories into a cohesive book.

The book covers topics like the role of sound, ancillary indicators, the importance of metaphor, how people perceive things, and a brief history of feel in games.

The associated web site contains a playset with ready-made tools to design feel in games, six key components to creating virtual sensation. There's a play palette too, so the designer can first experience the importance of that component by altering variables and feeling the results. The playset allows the reader to experience each of the sensations described in the book, and then allows them to apply them to their own projects. Creating game feel without having to program, essentially. The final version of the playset will have enough flexibility that the reader will be able to use it as a companion to the exercises in the book, working through each one to create the feel described.

Game Feel. A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation

Introduction
Chapter 1. Designing Game Mechanics
Chapter 2. Emergence and Progression
Chapter 3. Complex Systems and the Structure of Emergence
Chapter 4. Internal Economy
Chapter 5. Machinations
Chapter 6. Common Mechanisms
Chapter 7. Design Patterns
Chapter 8. Simulating and Balancing Games
Chapter 9. Building Economies
Chapter 10. Integrating Level Design and Mechanics
Chapter 11. Progression Mechanisms
Chapter 12. Meaningful Mechanics
Appendix A. Machinations Quick Reference
Appendix B. Design Pattern Library
Appendix C. Getting Started with Machinations
References
Index
Online Appendix B
Online Appendix C

This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You'll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you'll practice what you've learned with hands-on lessons. A free downloadable simulation tool developed by Joris Dormans is also available in order to follow along with exercises in the book in an easy-to-use graphical environment.

In Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design, youll learn how to:

* Design and balance game mechanics to create emergent gameplay before you write a single line of code.
* Visualize the internal economy so that you can immediately see what goes on in a complex game.
* Use novel prototyping techniques that let you simulate games and collect vast quantities of gameplay data on the first day of development.
* Apply design patterns for game mechanicsfrom a library in this bookto improve your game designs.
* Explore the delicate balance between game mechanics and level design to create compelling, long-lasting game experiences.
* Replace fixed, scripted events in your game with dynamic progression systems to give your players a new experience every time they play.

Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design (Voices That Matter)

Dedication
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Foreword (from the First Edition)
Prologue: My Grandfather
1. Why Write This Book?
2. How the Brain Works
3. What Games Are
4. What Games Teach Us
5. What Games Aren’t
6. Different Fun for Different Folks
7. The Problem with Learning
8. The Problem with People
9. Games in Context
10. The Ethics of Entertainment
11. Where Games Should Go
12. Taking Their Rightful Place
A. Epilogue: Fun Matters, Grandpa
B. Afterword: Ten Years Later
C. NOTES
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Epilogue
Afterword
About the Author
Copyright

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why it’s the most vital element in any game.

Why do some games become boring quickly, while others remain fun for years? How do games serve as fundamental and powerful learning tools? Whether you’re a game developer, dedicated gamer, or curious observer, this illustrated, fully updated edition helps you understand what drives this major cultural force, and inspires you to take it further.

You’ll discover that:

Games play into our innate ability to seek patterns and solve puzzles
Most successful games are built upon the same elements
Slightly more females than males now play games
Many games still teach primitive survival skills
Fictional dressing for modern games is more developed than the conceptual elements
Truly creative designers seldom use other games for inspiration
Games are beginning to evolve beyond their prehistoric origins

Theory of Fun for Game Design Second Edition

Introduction Press Start!
Level 1 Welcome, N00bs!
Level 2 Ideas
Level 3 Writing the Story
Level 4 You Can Design a Game, but Can You Do the Paperwork?
Level 5 The Three Cs, Part 1: Character
Level 6 The Three Cs, Part 2: Camera
Level 7 The Three Cs, Part 3: Controls
Level 8 Sign Language: HUD and Icon Design
Level 9 Everything I Learned About Level Design, I Learned from Level 9
Level 10 The Elements of Combat
Level 11 They All Want You Dead
Level 12 The Nuts and Bolts of Mechanics
Level 13 Now You’re Playing with Power
Level 14 Multiplayer—The More the Merrier
Level 15 Everybody Wins: Monetization
Level 16 Some Notes on Music
Level 17 Cutscenes, or No One’s Gonna Watch ‘Em Anyway
Level 18 And Now the Hard Part
Continue?
Index

Want to design your own video games? Let expert Scott Rogers show you how!

If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren’t sure where to start, then the SECOND EDITION of the acclaimed Level Up! is for you! Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed the hits Pac Man World, Maximo and SpongeBob Squarepants, this updated edition provides clear and well-thought out examples that forgo theoretical gobbledygook with charmingly illustrated concepts and solutions based on years of professional experience.

Level Up! 2nd Edition has been NEWLY EXPANDED to teach you how to develop marketable ideas, learn what perils and pitfalls await during a game’s pre-production, production and post-production stages, and provide even more creative ideas to serve as fuel for your own projects including:

Developing your game design from the spark of inspiration all the way to production
Learning how to design the most exciting levels, the most precise controls, and the fiercest foes that will keep your players challenged
Creating games for mobile and console systems – including detailed rules for touch and motion controls
Monetizing your game from the design up
Writing effective and professional design documents with the help of brand new examples
Level Up! 2nd Edition includes all-new content, an introduction by David “God of War” Jaffe and even a brand-new chili recipe –making it an even more indispensable guide for video game designers both “in the field” and the classroom.

Grab your copy of Level Up! 2nd Edition and let’s make a game!

Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, 2nd Edition

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction: Lost and Found
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Animated
Chapter 2: Pixar Is Born
Chapter 3: A Defining Goal
Chapter 4: Establishing Pixar’s Identity
Part II: Protecting The New
Chapter 5: Honesty and Candor
Chapter 6: Fear and Failure
Chapter 7: The Hungry Beast and the Ubly Baby
Chapter 8: Change and Randomness
Chapter 9: The Hidden
Part III: Building and Sustaining
Chapter 10: Broadening Our View
Chapter 11: The Unmade Future
Part IV: Testing What We Know
Chapter 12: A New Challenge
Chapter 13: Notes Day
Afterword: The Steve We Knew
Starting Points: Thoughts for Managing a Creative Culture
Photo Insert
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors

From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind Coco, Inside Out, and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Huffington Post • Financial Times • Success • Inc. • Library Journal

Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”

For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.

As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his co-founding Pixar in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as:

• Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.
• If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
• It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.
• The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
• A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

ПРИВЕТ
Глава 1. В начале был дизайнер
Глава 2. Дизайнер создает опыт
Глава 3. Опыт определяется местом действия
Глава 4. Опыт появляется в игре
Глава 5. Игра состоит из элементов
Глава 6. Элементы дополняют тему
Глава 7. Игра начинается с идеи
Глава 8. Итерации делают игры лучше
Глава 9. Игры делаются для игроков
Глава 10. Опыт формируется в голове у игрока
Глава 11. Игроком движет его мотивация
Глава 12. Некоторые элементы игровой механики
Глава 13. Между игровыми механиками должен существовать баланс
Глава 14. Игровые механики поддерживают головоломки
Глава 15. Игра познается через интерфейс
Глава 16. Используйте кривую интереса для оценки опыта
Глава 17. История как один из видов опыта
Глава 18. Структуры истории и игры можно искусно объединить непрямым контролем
Глава 19. Истории и игры происходят в мирах
Глава 20. Миры населены персонажами
Глава 21. Миры делятся на пространства
Глава 22. Как будет выглядеть мир и что будет ощущать игрок, войдя в него, определяется эстетикой
Глава 23. В некоторые игры играют с другими игроками
Глава 24. Другие игроки иногда объединяются в сообщества
Глава 25. Дизайнеры обычно работают в команде
Глава 26. Команда общается посредством документации
Глава 27. Хорошие игры всегда проходят тестирование
Глава 28. Команда делает игру, используя технологии
Глава 29. У вашей игры наверняка будут заказчики
Глава 30. Дизайнер должен делать презентацию игры
Глава 31. Дизайнер и заказчик хотят, чтобы игра приносила доход
Глава 32. Игры трансформируют своих игроков
Глава 33. У геймдизайнера должны быть определенные обязательства
Глава 34. Каждый дизайнер имеет цель
Глава 35. До свидания
Благодарности
Список призм

Любой может освоить фундаментальные принципы геймдизайна — для этого не требуется никаких технологических знаний. Просто необходимо помнить о том, что хороший геймдизайн получается только тогда, когда геймдизайнер способен взглянуть на свою игру под разным углом. Джесси Шелл, сам будучи геймдизайнером, называет их призмами и в своей книге «Геймдизайн» собрал свыше ста таких призм, которые помогут любому дизайнеру при создании своей игры.

«Это не схемы или рецепты, а скорее инструменты для изучения дизайна», — объясняет Джесси. И эти инструменты, равно как и сама книга, подходят не только для создателей компьютерных или видеоигр, но и для любых других игр: настольных, спортивных, карточных.

Книга подробно описывает процесс создания игры: от понимания того, что входит в задачи дизайнера, как сформировать команду, найти и протестировать идею, не отпугнуть будущего игрока плохим интерфейсом и сформировать работающую бизнес-модель.

Геймдизайн. Джесси Шелл

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