Customer Reviews

Game Developer's Marketplace

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This book is proberly one of the best books that i had ever bought. For a wannabe game developer like me, this book gave me the insight toward what i should expect. It gave in detail what one should know to make themselve a complete game developer. Wheter you are an artist or a programmer, this book will help you guide yourself toward a sucessful carrer in this field.

Game Developer's Marketplace is well-written and interesting, and covers just about everything to do with designing and marketing a game. Its scope is so large, however, that the author is able to touch only briefly on each topic, favoring general advice for those new to the industry over in-depth analysis useful to the more experienced. I recommend the book only for those who have little or no previous game design experience, and for them I rate this book at 5 stars. If you already know what you're doing, however, give this one a pass.

This book does an excellent job of combining the insites of many experienced industry people. I especially was glad to read the section on getting funding. The book is very readable, well organized, and extremely useful. I wish the CD-ROM had some sample documents though - such as a sample design spec and perhaps letters for funding. Overall, very useful and helpful book.

There's... all available publically on business practices in the games industry, which is quite peculiar, given how large a field it's become, and given the minute detail in which, say, the film and publishing industries have been covered. Thus, this is almost a necessary volume for anyone outside the field interested in getting into it.

That said, it is so relentlessly and laughably upbeat as to be beyond belief. The truth is that gaming may not be quite as corrupt as the music industry, or as vicious as Hollywood, but it can be a pretty darn brutal field in which to work.

I'd have given five stars if the authors had included examples, or better yet templates, for the design treatment and design documents. Given the amount of material given this is a surprisingly easy read. It is very well organized and it is very easy to find information your after without having to wade thorough extraneous information. This book should be on the bookshelf of anyone who is doing game design, computer or otherwise.

This book is for anyone who wants to enter the marketplace. There is no code, no programming, it's just an excelent source for people who want to know how things work in the game/edutainment/multimedia marketplace.