Index_B

B

babel fish puzzle, 176

back-story, 216, 222, 311-312, 376

Back-Story Tome, 375-376

backtracking, 465

Bailey, Donna, 57, 94

balance, 99, 150, 267, 401-402, 442, 459, 460

Balance of Power , 257, 263 , 266-267

Balance of Power II: The 1990 Edition , 266 , 268-269, 269

Balance of the Planet , 270 , 271

balancing, 34, 96, 245, 253, 254, 289, 377, 493-497

Baldur s Gate: Dark Alliance , 239

Barbie, 413

Bard s Tale, The , 137, 505, 533

Bard s Tale II, The , 533

Barthelet, Luc, 436

basketball , 413, 462

Bates, Bob, 189

Battlefield 1942 , 241, 245, 246 , 250

Battlezone , 61

behavioral model, 427

behaviors, 213, 214, 366-367, 389-390, 400-403

believability, of setting, 477-478

Berez, Joel, 178-179

Berry, Dani Bunten, 237, 248, 446-447

beta, 490

beta testing, 185

Better Red than Undead , 516-517

Beyond Zork , 180, 228

Big Sleep, The , 222

big-picture view, 504

biological simulations vs. economic simulations, 416

Bjornson, Edith, 273

Blackley, Seamus, 515

Blank, Marc, 173, 178-179, 180, 186

blank-slate character, 13

Bleszinski, Cliff, 459

blind-play, 240, 241, 258

Blitzkrieg , 258

Blizzard Entertainment, 404

blob strategy, 118

Blowin in the Wind, 266

Blue , 353

Blue Sky, 503

Blue Sky Research, 515

board games , 26, 38, 245, 248, 250, 258

vs. computer games, 26

Boffo Games, 173, 195

Bond, James, 163-164, 219

Bone , 234

Bora-Bora, 294

boundaries, game-world, 9-10, 126

bragging rights, 5, 60, 238-239

brainstorming, 77, 88, 94-95, 110

branching

actions, 460, 462

dialog, 37, 229-230, 314, 507

paths, 465

stories, 223-224

storyboards, 317

tree, 337

branding, 36

Braun, Jeff, 411

breadth vs. depth, 387, 525-526

Breakout , 88, 89, 107

Broderbund Software, 321, 322, 411

Bruckheimer, Jerry, 350

BSP engines, 298

BTZ engine, 182

budgets , 55, 108, 110, 122-123, 195, 200, 263-264, 318, 335, 341-342, 530

bug-free software, 406

bugs , 406, 490-491, 506

builder games, 25, 386-387, 408, 451

builds, playable , 288

Bungie Software, 49, 252, 253, 303

Bunten, Dan, 269

Bushnell, Nolan, 88

buttons , 132

icons for, 139