Tynan Sylvester

Designing Games (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Engineering Experiences

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of todays hit video games. Youll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiencesa 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 playExplore several options for combining narrative with interactivityBuild interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each others headsMotivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the gameEstablish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanicsPlan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up frontLearn how your games market positioning will affect your design

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449338022
• Artikelnr.: 37901228

Autorenporträt

Tynan Sylvester first designed games in 2000. His smallest projects were one-man independent games on which he wrote every line of code and painted every frame of art. His largest was four years on Irrational Games' 110-person development team making BioShock Infinite. He has also written several feature design articles for Gamasutra, the biggest game design website. Tynan believes that much of what we think of game design grows from the metaphors we use to describe it. He likes to work at finding metaphors that create useful answers instead of deadly assumptions. He also enjoys bacon and prefers Picard to Kirk. Tynan's game design blog is at tynansylvester.com. He likes talking to people, so go ahead and post a comment or email him at [e-mail].

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface
2. Part One: Engines of Experience
* Chapter 1: Engines of Experience
3. Part Two: Game Crafting
* Chapter 2: Elegance
* Chapter 3: Skill
* Chapter 4: Narrative
* Chapter 5: Decisions
* Chapter 6: Balance
* Chapter 7: Multiplayer
* Chapter 8: Motivation and Fulfillment
* Chapter 9: Interface
* Chapter 10: The Market
4. Part Three: Process
* Chapter 11: Planning and Iteration
* Chapter 12: Knowledge Creation
* Chapter 13: Dependencies
* Chapter 14: Authority
* Chapter 15: Motivation
* Chapter 16: Complex Decisions
* Chapter 17: Values
* Endgame
* Recommended Books
* Quiz Answers
* Sources