The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition

Schell, Jesse,Schell, Jesse

ISBN 10: 1466598646 / ISBN 13: 9781466598645

Edité par A K Peters/CRC Press, 2014

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Synopsis :

Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner:

• Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design
• Demonstrates how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games
• Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell, the former chair of the International Game Developers Association and award-winning designer of Disney online games

The Art of Game Design, Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.

À propos de l'auteur: Jesse Schell is distinguished professor of the practice of entertainment technology for Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), a joint master's program between Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science, where he teaches game design and leads several research projects. He is also CEO of Schell Games, LLC, an independent game studio in Pittsburgh. Formerly he was creative director of the Walt Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio and chairman of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). Schell worked as a designer, programmer, and manager on several projects for Disney theme parks and DisneyQuest. He received his undergraduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and master's degree in information networking from Carnegie Mellon. In 2004, he was named as one of the World's 100 Top Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, ...
Éditeur : A K Peters/CRC Press
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Edition : 2ème Édition