Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences -- a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.

In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on track, including how to work with a team, and how to avoid creative dead ends. Packed with examples, this book will change your perception of game design.

• Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play

• Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity

• Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other's heads

• Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game

• Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics

• Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front

• Learn how your game's market positioning will affect your design

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• Computers & TechnologyProgrammingGames
• Computers & TechnologyInteractive & Multimedia

• Publication Date: January 3, 2013
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• Print Length: 584 Pages
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