Scott A. Rogers

Your Turn!

The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design

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Produktbeschreibung

Whether you are a novice or experienced pro, this easy-to-follow guide to designing board games is for you!

In Your Turn! The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design, veteran game designer Scott Rogers--creator of tabletop games including Rayguns and Rocketships, Pantone the Game and ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo--delivers a practical walkthrough to help YOU create over a half-dozen game prototypes, including dice, card, euro, miniature, and party games. The book is packed with easy-to-follow instructions, charming illustrations, and hands-on lessons based on the author's proven knowledge and experience.

And once you've made your game, Your Turn! will teach you how to prepare, pitch and sell it whether through crowdfunding or a publisher. You'll also learn how to:
_ Write and create elegant and crystal-clear rules of play
_ Playtest your games to improve quality, fix problems, and gather feedback
_ Learn what players want and how to design for it
_ Learn thesecrets of the Six Zones of Play and why they are so important to your game design!

Your Turn! is the essential guide for practicing and aspiring tabletop game designers everywhere! Why wait to make the tabletop game of your dreams? Grab this book and prepare to take Your Turn!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W119981590
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 185mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 868g
• ISBN-13: 9781119981596
• ISBN-10: 111998159X
• Artikelnr.: 63820742

Autorenporträt

Scott Rogers has been a professional game designer for thirty years. He has designed many tabletop games including Rayguns and Rocketships, Pantone: The Game, ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo, and was featured in the 2020 documentary Gamemaster. He is the author of the best selling book Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design. Scott has taught at USC and the New York Film Academy and now he's ready to teach YOU!

Inhaltsangabe

Hi There! xxi

Chapter 1 Let's Make a Board Game! 1

The Game Board 2

A Brief Note About Components 3

Getting Started 4

How to Make a Game Board 5

Let's Make Improve the Game! 11

Change a Number 12

Change a Component 13

Change a Rule 15

Change the Theme: An Introduction to Theme and Genre 16

Chapter 2 Writing Rule Books Is Hard 21

The Problem with Rule Books 23

Problem #1: There Can Be Only One (Reader) 23

Problem #2: Front-End Information Overload 24

Problem #3: Rule Book Length 25

Problem #4: Edge Cases 26

Tricks to Writing Rule Books 27

Trick #1: Rules Are Stories 27

Trick #2: Use The Six Zones of Play 28

Trick #3: I Am Talking to "You" 34

Trick #4: Use Command Statements 34

Trick #5: Include Pictures 34

Trick #6: Add Callouts 35

What Every Good Rule Book Needs 36

Creating an Introduction 36

List of Components 37

Game Setup 38

The Goal of the Game 38

General Sequence of Play 40

Detailed Sequence of Play 47

End of Game 47

Everyone Deserves Credit 48

But Wait, There's More 48

Say What? Translating the Rules 51

Chapter 3 The Chapter About Play Testing 53

The Great Worry 54

Let's Start Starting 56

Is This a Thing? 56

Going Solo 59

Do It by Design 62

Gamers Game Games 63

Friends and Family 73

Blind Play Testing 73

Publisher Play Testing 74

Chapter 4 Let's Make a Dice Game! 75

Dice Basics 75

Dice Mechanisms 78

Rolling 79

Rerolling 80

Dice Determine Movement 81

Dice Determine Combat Results 82

Dice Placement 82

Banking Dice 82

Dice for Targeting 83

Dice Builder 84

Concealing Dice 84

Dice Determine Actions 85

Dice Determine Resources 85

Dice of Different Colors 86

Combination Matching 87

Real-Time Rolling 87

Roll and Write 87

Dice Stacking 89

Dice Crafting 89

Dice as Counters 89

Dice as Units 90

Bluffing with Dice 90

Pop-O-Matic 91

Choosing the Right Dice Tools 91

It's Probably Due to Probability 91

I Still Don't Believe in Luck, But 96

Let's Design a Dice Game 98

Step 1: Create the Rules 99

Step 2: Play Test the Game 100

Step 3: Change the Rules 100

Step 4: Change a Number 101

Step 5: Change the Objective 102

Step 6: Add a Mechanism 103

Step 7: Change the Theme 104

Creating Your Own Custom Dice 106

Dice Games to Play 106

Chapter 5 Let's Make a Card Game! 109

Let's Create a Card! 110

One Way to Make Cards 110

Another Way to Make Cards 111

Yet Another Way to Make a Card 112

Here's One More Way to Make a Card 112

Even More Ways to Make a Card 113

Print and Play 113

Size Matters 115

Clear Cards 116

Pentagonal and Hexagonal Cards 117

Circular Cards 117

A Very Short History of Card Games 118

An Order of Sides 121

Card Mechanisms 125

Components 142

A Note About Probability and Cards 143

Let's Design a Card Game 144

Step 1: Setting Up the Game 144

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