Art of Game Design A Book of Lenses

Name: Art of Game Design A Book of Lenses
Price: 26.69 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780123694966

ISBN-10: 0123694965

ISBN-13: 9780123694966

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jesse Schell

List price: $68.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $26.69

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Jesse Schell takes an unusual approach to game design, an approach that focuses neither on the technological details of game development nor on the analysis of popular games. Instead, the book will propose that the most important skill for a game designer is not creativity as most suppose, but that of listening. The five kinds of listening (team, client, audience, game, and self) are shown to be backbone of all successful game design methods. These methods fall into three categories: understanding the psychology of gameplay and entertainment, using techniques from traditional disciplines in the game design, and processes for inventing new experiences that will fully engage the player. This…

Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 7.60" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



A book of Lenses


Introduction


The History of Games


The Most Important Skill


Holographic Design


The Cycle of Design


Excerpt: Lehman and Witty: The Psychology of Play (1927)


The Psychology of Play


The Spectrum of Humanity


Excerpt: Julian Jaynes: The Orgin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,



The Consciousness of Consciousness


The Subconscious Mind



The Player


Excerpt


Salvador Dali


Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship


Secret Number Three


Slumber With a Key


The Subconscious Mind



The Designer


Essay: Greg Costikyan: I Have No Words and I Must Design


What is a Game?


The Elements of Game Mechanics


Toy Design


State and State Change


Skill and Chance


Decisions


Feedback- The Heart of Interactivity


Interfaces


Patterns of Rewards


Game Balancing


Case Study: Deconstructing Pac-Man


Essay: Scott Kim: What is a Puzzle?


Puzzle Principles


The Psychology of Story


Interactive Stories: The Promise and the Problem


Story and Gameplay- The Conflict and Solution


Story and Game Worlds


Lessons from Tabletop RPGs


Essay: Henry Jenkins: Transmedia Worlds


Transmedia Worlds


Excerpt: Scott McCloud: The Vocabulary of Comics (from Understanding Comics)


Characters in Games


Excerpts: (various) Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language


Architecture in Games (Level Design)


Elegance


Character in Games


Essay: Brian Moriarty: The Point


Social Principles in Multiplayer Games


Online Communities


Technology


Iteration


Playtesting


Brainstorming


Team Communication


Design Documents


Business


The Art of the Pitch


Excerpt: Mills Penny Arcade (1920)


Location Based Entertainment


Serious Games


The Ethics of Games


The Deepest Theme


The Future


Your Secret Responsibility