Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
CRC Press
Published on
Aug 4, 2008
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.50x1.25x9.25 Inches
Weight
2.34 Pounds
About the Book
Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lensesshows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.