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Tracy Fullerton

Christopher Swain

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, & Playtesting Games

by Tracy Fullerton (Author), Chris Swain (Author)

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As experienced teachers of novice game designers, the authors have discovered patterns in the way that students grasp game design - the mistakes they make as well as the methods to help them to create better games.

Each exercise requires no background in programming or artwork, releasing beginning designers from the intricacies of electronic game production and allowing them to learn what works and what doesn't work in a game system. Additionally, these exercises teach important skills in system design: the processes of prototyping, playtesting, and redesigning.

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1578202221
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978-1578202225
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CRC Press
Publication date

February 1, 2004
Language

English
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7.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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480 pages
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Joseph Zavorski

Good read

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2019

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Best book on the subject ever

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Ray Bod

About Design

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2014

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This book just didn't click for me. It says design, but it seemed more like a smattering of this game with a bunch of ideas about it and another game with a bunch of ideas about it, and another, etc.. It's not what I was looking for. It was more about design and not how to design.

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John Matlock

Not programming, Not Graphics, Overall Game Design

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2005

Few people realize just how big a business digital gaming has become. Think of it this way: It's bigger than the domestic box office of the film industry. The amount of time spent playing games by young people now exceeds everything but television in time spent on entertainment. The main factor driving the development of the new extremely powerful computers is gaming, slower machines are capable of handling almost all office tasks.

The authors of this book have a great deal of experience in both designing games and teaching how to design games. This has given them an understanding of how beginning designers grasp the structured elements of games, common traps they fall into, and certain developmental exercises that help the student learn to make better games.

Note that this is not a programming manual, nor is it a graphics design manual. It is on game design. What are the characteristics that make a game, how can you prototype and play test the game without a horrendous programming expense, and finally some input on the game industry and how to decide on how you might like to be employeed in that industry.

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M. Zummo

This is an amazing book that walks you through concepts

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2014

This is an amazing book that walks you through concepts, then presents practical work sessions to apply them. By the end you'll have a solid understanding of game design principles, and working prototypes for a few products of your own design. I highly recommend this book for people interested in traditional board/card game design.

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Frederick E. Watt IV

Excellent Practical Book of Game Design

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2007

I consider this an excellent book on game design. As an amatuer board game and basic computer game designer, I found a lot of the material extremely useful in the *process* of coming up with a game from start to finish.

The chapter on prototyping did a great job in showing how to go ahead and create a prototype from a game idea, while keeping it simple and concentrating on the "core gameplay mechanism."

The chapter on "Playtesting" and "Functionality, Completeness, and Balance" builds on the prototype chapter by emphasizing the iterative nature of design where one go aheads and evaluates, tries new things, identify problems and keep evolving.

The next chapter following is maybe the most important chapter that discusses whether you game is fun, goes in to some theory of what makes a game fun, and relates various techniques of improving player's choices so as to make the game fun.

This is a great book that gives you the necessary tools to go ahead and be able to at the very least create a viable prototype of a game that is possibly fun and playable.

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Tony Van

Excellent Reference

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2008

I like this book so much, I've purchased it 3 times! (My first copy was "borrowed" by one of my designer/producers, my second copy was left at Ubisoft SF, and this is my 3rd copy for myself.)

Great mixture of theories, old-school practices, and new-school techniques.

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E. T. Camacho

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2008

Although I personally disagree with some parts of what this book teaches, it this game design book is one of the most comprehensive I've seen. Well-recommended.

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