Many new games are from first time designers or are being self-published. There is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design.
Many new games are from first time designers or are being self-published. There is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Geoffrey Engelstein is the designer of many tabletop games, including The Ares Project, the Space Cadets series, The Dragon & Flagon, The Expanse, and more. He is the founder of Ludology, a bi-weekly podcast about game design in its ninth year, and a twelve-year contributor to the Dice Tower podcast with his biweekly GameTek segments discussing the math, science, and psychology of games, and has published several books, including GameTek: The Math and Science of Gaming , Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design, and Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design. He is on the faculty of the NYU Game Center as an adjunct professor for Board Game Design and has been invited to speak at PAX, GenCon, Metatopia, and the Game Developers Conference. When not talking about, designing, or playing games, Geoff runs Mars International, a product development firm focusing on consumer and medical device engineering. He has a BS in Physics and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Section I General Topics Chapter 1 Tools of the Trade 3 Chapter 2 Graphic Design 41 Chapter 3 Writing Rules 75 Section II The Development Lifecycle Chapter 4 Alpha Prototypes 97 Chapter 5 Beta Prototypes 115 Chapter 6 Production 137 Chapter 7 Conclusion 167
