Game Design: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) (Wordware Game Developers Library) - page 1
- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Game Design - Theory Practice, Second Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- What Is Game Design?
- Who Is a Game Designer?
- What Is in This Book?
- Who This Book Is For
- Theory and Practice
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Chapter 1: What Players Want
- Why Do Players Play?
- What Do Players Expect?
- A Never-Ending List
- Chapter 2: Interview: Sid Meier
- Chapter 3: Brainstorming a Game Idea: Gameplay, Technology, and Story
- Starting Points
- Working with Limitations
- Embrace Your Limitations
- If You Choose Not to Decide, You Still Have Made a Choice
- Chapter 4: Game Analysis: Centipede
- Classic Arcade Game Traits
- Input
- Interconnectedness
- Escalating Tension
- One Person, One Game
- Chapter 5: Focus
- Establishing Focus
- Maintaining Focus
- Sub-Focuses
- Using Focus
- Chapter 6: Interview: Ed Logg
- Chapter 7: The Elements of Gameplay
- Unique Solutions
- Non-Linearity
- Modeling Reality
- Teaching the Player
- InputOutput
- Basic Elements
- Chapter 8: Game Analysis: Tetris
- Puzzle Game or Action Game?
- Tetris as a Classic Arcade Game
- The Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Escalating Tension
- Simplicity and Symmetry
- Fifteen Years On, Who Would Publish Tetris?
- Chapter 9: Artificial Intelligence
- Goals of Game AI
- The Sloped Playing Field
- AI Agents and Their Environment
- How Good Is Good Enough?
- Scripting
- Artificial Stupidity
- Chapter 10: Interview: Steve Meretzky
- Chapter 11: Storytelling
- Designer s Story Versus Player s Story
- Places for Storytelling
- Linear Writing Pitfalls
- Game Stories
- The Dream
- Chapter 12: Game Analysis: Loom
- Focused Game Mechanics
- User Interface
- The Drafts System
- Difficulty
- Story
- Loom as an Adventure Game
- Chapter 13: Multi-Player
- Motivations
- The Forms
- Design Considerations
- Development Issues
- A World of Their Own
- Chapter 14: Interview: Chris Crawford
- Chapter 15: Getting the Gameplay Working
- The Organic Process
- Building the Game
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