Designing Games?New from O'Reilly Media
A Guide to Engineering Experiences
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Sebastopol, CA?Ready to give your design skills a real boost? Designing Games
helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video
games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that
generate emotionally charged experiences?a combination of elegant game
mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.
In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also
looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on track,
including how to work with a team, and how to avoid creative dead ends.
Packed with examples, this book will change your perception of game
design.
- Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play
- Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity
- Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other's heads
- Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game
- Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics
- Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front
- Learn how your game's market positioning will affect your design
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About the Author
Tynan Sylvester first designed games in 2000. His smallest
projects were one-man independent games on which he wrote every line of
code and painted every frame of art. His largest was four years on
Irrational Games' 110-person development team making BioShock Infinite.
He has also written several feature design articles for Gamasutra, the
biggest game design website.
Tynan believes that much of what we think of game design grows from the
metaphors we use to describe it. He likes to work at finding metaphors
that create useful answers instead of deadly assumptions. He also enjoys
bacon and prefers Picard to Kirk.
Tynan's game design blog is at tynansylvester.com. He likes talking to people, so go ahead and post a comment or email him at tynan.sylvester@gmail.com.
View Tynan Sylvester's full profile page.
Additional Resources
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