Game Design Foundations 2 E With Cd Rom

Author : Roger E. Pedersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9380108427

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Game Design Foundations, 2/e (with CD ROM) by Roger E. Pedersen Pdf

About the Book : - Game Design Foundation, Second Edition covers the basics of designing a game from coming up with a concept and writing the game design document to scripting the levels and publishing your game. Game designer Roger E. Pedersen offers a voice of experience as he explains the process, and provides exercises and assignments along the way to help readers hone their newly acquired skills. Understand the different genres of games Discover how to document the game design process with the one-pager, executive summary, game proposal, character design document, and game design document Explore the principles of game design, including game mechanics, balancing, pathfinding, and artificial intelligence Understand the basics of programming, scriptwriting, and researching your concept Learn about innovations in gaming and outlets for your game On the CD: Reel Deal Poker Challenge demo Full code for tic-tac example in Visual Basic and Visual C++ Demo film What Is Machinima? More than 1,200 game ideas

Author : Roger Pedersen
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780763782740

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Game Design Foundations by Roger Pedersen Pdf

Game Design Foundations, Second Edition covers how to design the game from the important opening sentence, the "One Pager" document, the Executive Summary and Game Proposal, the Character Document to the Game Design Document. The book describes game genres, where game ideas come from, game research, innovation in gaming, important gaming principles such as game mechanics, game balancing, AI, path finding and game tiers. The basics of programming, level designing, and film scriptwriting are explained by example. Each chapter has exercises to hone in on the newly learned designer skills that will display your work as a game designer and your knowledge in the game industry.

Author : Ernest Adams
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780133435719

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Fundamentals of Game Design by Ernest Adams Pdf

Now in its third edition, the classic book on game design has been completely revised to include the latest developments in the game industry. Readers will learn all the fundamentals of concept development, gameplay design, core mechanics, user interfaces, storytelling, and balancing. They’ll be introduced to designing for mobile devices and touch screens, as well as for the Kinect and motion-capture gameplay. They’ll learn how indie developers are pushing the envelope and how new business models such as free-to-play are influencing design. In an easy-to-follow approach, Adams offers a first-hand look into the process of designing a game, from initial concept to final tuning. This in-depth resource also comes with engaging end-of-chapter exercises, design worksheets, and case studies.

Author : D. Michael Ploor
Publisher : Goodheart-Willcox Pub
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1605253030

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Video Game Design Foundations by D. Michael Ploor Pdf

The software design guide (SDG) provides the hands-on application of the theory presented in the textbook. The SDG should be considered an integral part of the curriculum. It is where students take the theory learned in the textbook and use that knowledge to build video games. Working in simulated design teams, students will experience all aspects of video game design, from the planning stages, through the design and programming, and concluding with a capstone project. Each chapter in the SDG is correlated to the textbook chapter. There are several activities for each chapter. The last chapter in the SDG is a capstone project that requires students to apply all of the knowledge acquired in the textbook and SDG. The SDG includes The Games Factory 2. This is a fully-functional version (not a demo) with a two-install license. One install is intended for school use and the other install is intended for student home use. The Games Factory 2 System Requirements Windows: Intel® Pentium 200 Mhz or higher; Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, or 7; 32 Mb RAM (256 Mb for XP, Vista, or 7); CD-ROM Drive

Author : George Kalmpourtzis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351804714

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Educational Game Design Fundamentals by George Kalmpourtzis Pdf

Can we learn through play? Can we really play while learning? Of course! But how?! We all learn and educate others in our own unique ways. Successful educational games adapt to the particular learning needs of their players and facilitate the learning objectives of their designers. Educational Game Design Fundamentals embarks on a journey to explore the necessary aspects to create games that are both fun and help players learn. This book examines the art of educational game design through various perspectives and presents real examples that will help readers make more informed decisions when creating their own games. In this way, readers can have a better idea of how to prepare for and organize the design of their educational games, as well as evaluate their ideas through several prisms, such as feasibility or learning and intrinsic values. Everybody can become education game designers, no matter what their technical, artistic or pedagogic backgrounds. This book refers to educators and designers of all sorts: from kindergarten to lifelong learning, from corporate training to museum curators and from tabletop or video game designers to theme park creators!

Author : Heather Chandler,Rafael Chandler
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780763778958

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Fundamentals of Game Development by Heather Chandler,Rafael Chandler Pdf

What is a game? -- The game industry -- Roles on the team -- Teams -- Effective communication -- Game production overview -- Game concept -- Characters, setting, and story -- Game requirements -- Game plan -- Production cycle -- Voiceover and music -- Localization -- Testing and code releasing -- Marketing and public relations.

Author : Ernest Adams,Andrew Rollings
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computer games
ISBN : UCSC:32106018745437

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Fundamentals of Game Design by Ernest Adams,Andrew Rollings Pdf

Game design is the most fundamental skill you need for a career in the video game industry. Noted authors and game developers Ernest Adams and Andrew Rollings lead you through the concepts, principles, and techniques for designing an entire video game. The first half of the book gives you the necessary groundwork for creating worlds, characters, stories, gameplay, core mechanics, and a user interface. It also shows you a process by which to approach the task. The second half of the book applies the principles of the first half to the most common game genres on the market today including action games, strategy games, role-playing games, and vehicle simulations.

Author : Ernest Adams
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780133812138

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Fundamentals of Role-Playing Game Design by Ernest Adams Pdf

You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the role-playing game genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for the role-playing game genre and shows you how to use the right techniques to create fun and challenging experiences for your players.

Author : Rex van der Spuy
Publisher : Apress
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430247173

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Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript by Rex van der Spuy Pdf

Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript teaches you everything you need to know about how to make video games. If you’ve never done any programming before and don’t know where to start, this book will show you how to make games from start to finish. You’ll learn all the latest programming technologies (HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript) to create your games. All written in a fun and friendly style with open-ended projects that encourage you to build your own original games. Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript starts by showing you how you can use basic programing to create logic games, adventure games, and create interactive game graphics. Design a game character, learn to control it with the keyboard, mouse, or touch screen interface, and then learn how to use collision detection to build an interactive game world. You’ll learn to make maze games, platform jumping games, and fast paced action games that cover all the popular genres of 2D gaming. Create intelligent enemies, use realistic physics, sound effects and music, and learn how to animate game characters. Whether you're creating games for the web or mobile devices, everything you need to get started on a career as a game designer is right here. Focused and friendly introduction to making games with HTML5. Essential programming and graphic design techniques for building games, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters. Detailed case studies demonstrating techniques that can be used for making games in a wide variety of genres.

Author : D. Michael Ploor
Publisher : Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 1619602784

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Video Game Design Foundations by D. Michael Ploor Pdf

"Video Game Design Foundations provides students with a complete understanding of all aspects of video game design. This "turnkey" curriculum guides students from beginning each game build project through completion, integration, and marketing. Simulated design teams learn all aspects of team building required to launch a new video game system"--

Author : Education Development Center, Incorporated
Publisher : Digital Media Arts
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0892925949

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Principles of Game Design by Education Development Center, Incorporated Pdf

Author : Alice Bell,Astrid Ensslin,Hans Rustad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135136048

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Analyzing Digital Fiction by Alice Bell,Astrid Ensslin,Hans Rustad Pdf

Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are sensitive to its status as a digital artifact. Analyzing Digital Fiction offers a collection of pioneering analyses based on replicable methodological frameworks. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology. Essays propose ways in which digital environments can expand, challenge and test the limits of literary theories which have, until recently, predominantly been based on models and analyses of print texts.

Author : Katie Salen Tekinbas,Eric Zimmerman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262240459

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Rules of Play by Katie Salen Tekinbas,Eric Zimmerman Pdf

An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.

Author : Anthony Brooks,Eva Irene Brooks,Duckworth Jonathan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030734268

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Interactivity and Game Creation by Anthony Brooks,Eva Irene Brooks,Duckworth Jonathan Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2020, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in December 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 60 submissions. The papers represent a forum for the dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of arts, design and technology, including open related topics like interactivity and game creation. They are grouped in terms of content on art, installation and performance; games; design; intelligence and creativity in healthcare; wellbeing and aging.

Author : Ernest Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computer games
ISBN : OCLC:1100829093

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Fundamentals of Game Design, Second Edition by Ernest Adams Pdf

To create a great video game, you must start with a solid game design: A well-designed game is easier to build, more entertaining, and has a better chance of succeeding in the marketplace. Here to teach you the essential skills of player-centric game design is one of the industry's leading authorities, who offers a first-hand look into the process, from initial concept to final tuning. Now in its second edition, this updated classic reference by Ernest Adams offers a complete and practical approach to game design, and includes material on concept development, gameplay design, core mechanics, user interfaces, storytelling, and balancing. In an easy-to-follow approach, Adams analyzes the specific design challenges of all the major game genres and shows you how to apply the principles of game design to each one. You'll learn how to: Define the challenges and actions at the heart of the gameplay. Write a high-concept document, a treatment, and a full design script. Understand the essentials of user interface design and how to define a game's look and feel. Design for a variety of input mechanisms, including the Wii controller and multi-touch iPhone. Construct a game's core mechanics and flow of resources (money, points, ammunition, and more). Develop appealing stories, game characters, and worlds that players will want to visit, including persistent worlds. Work on design problems with engaging end-of-chapter exercises, design worksheets, and case studies. Make your game accessible to broader audiences such as children, adult women, people with disabilities, and casual players. "Ernest Adams provides encyclopedic coverage of process and design issues for every aspect of game design, expressed as practical lessons that can be immediately applied to a design in-progress. He offers the best framework I've seen for thinking about the relationships between core mechanics, gameplay, and player-one that I've found useful for both teaching and research."--Michael Mateas, University of California at Santa Cruz, co-creator of Façade.