Video Game Design: Principles and Practices from the Ground Up - Couverture souple

Salmond, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147256748X ISBN 13 : 9781472567482

Editeur : Fairchild Books, 2016

Synopsis

Offers what every game designer needs to know - how to produce strong characters, addictive game play and challenging level design. Using psychology, aesthetics and usability testing, budding game designers will learn to produce their own unique projects that gamers will love to play.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Salmond is a digital interaction designer, artist and digital theorist. His work has been exhibited and published nationally, internationally and online. He has been practising within the digital medium for over 20 years and currently teaches interaction and digital design at Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida, USA.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Video Game Design is a visual introduction to integrating core design essentials, such as critical analysis, mechanics and aesthetics, prototyping, level design, into game design.

Using a raft of examples from a diverse range of leading international creatives and award-winning studios, this is a must-have guide for budding game designers. Industry perspectives from game industry professionals provide fascinating insights into this creative field, and each chapter concludes with a workshop project to help you put what you've learnt into practice to plan and develop your own games.

With over 200 images from some of the best-selling, most creative games of the last 30 years, this is an essential introduction to industry practice, helping readers develop practical skills for video game creation. This book is for those seeking a career making video games as part of a studio, small team or as an independent creator. It will guide you from understanding how games engage, entertain and communicate with their audience and take you on a journey as a designer towards creating your own video game experiences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fairchild Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147256748X
• ISBN 13: 9781472567482
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible