Download or read book Game Design Workshop written by Tracy Fullerton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create the Digital Games You Love to Play Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic expertise using Game Design Workshop, Third Edition. Author Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with a clear and accessible analysis of the formal and dramatic systems of game design. Examples of popular games, illustrations of design techniques, and refined exercises strengthen your understanding of how game systems function and give you the skills and tools necessary to create a compelling and engaging game. The book puts you to work prototyping, playtesting, and revising your own games with time-tested methods and tools. It provides you with the foundation to advance your career in any facet of the game industry, including design, producing, programming, and visual design.
Download or read book All New Video Game Ideas written by Adam J. Capps and published by Adam J. Capps. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All new video game ideas for your video game! A public domain book of free use, too. This book does not require any credits to be given either, “it’s a secret to everyone.” There are more than 500 ideas here to include in any new game. This book goes over specific genres that makes it easier to find ideas for whatever type of game you are making, from adventure games to open world games and everything in between. Anyone needing ideas for their new video game can find them here!
Download or read book The New Video Game Idea Book written by Adam Jeremy Capps and published by Adam Jeremy Capps. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Video Game Idea Book is a book that gives game makers ideas for a great new video game. It does so by giving the game maker new and old ideas to work with. It also goes over the philosophy of what makes a good video game, helps the game maker's imagination, shows them their options, and goes over the best methods for making a new video game. This is a helpful public domain book for making good video games.
Download or read book Dark Alley Marketing written by Steven Long and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In plain language, Steven Long lays out the steps independent game developers must use to get their games noticed. His bare-bones approach to marketing and promotion gives indies the framework they need to get started right away, spend the least money possible and maximize exposure. By guiding devs through what he calls the "dark alleys" of marketing, readers learn to navigate the established back channels of marketing--social media, email, games distributors and more. By taking advantage of these avenues, developers are able to leverage the hard work of other people and gain allies that will help them gather a fan base of their own. This book offers guidance through the major aspects of digital marketing, specifically addressing the problems and situations game devs face. Steven Long covers - How to pitch your game to social media influencers - How to make killer game trailers - How to piece together a website - How to create an effective press kit - How to leverage email to keep your fans engaged long-term - How to think of your game as its own best piece of marketing - How to take advantage of Steam and other distributors - So much more
Download or read book The Art of Game Design written by Jesse Schell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.
Download or read book Power Play written by Asi Burak and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An insider’s view of the good things that can emerge from being glued to a screen. . . . A solid piece of pop-culture/business journalism.” —Kirkus Reviews The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception—from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement’s most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.
Download or read book Notebook of New Video Game Ideas Book Two written by Adam Jeremy Capps and published by Adam Jeremy Capps. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s a secret to everyone.” This contains a large number of good elements to add to any game. There are over 250 free ideas here that any game maker may use. All the ideas here are free in this public domain book. No idea was presented that was known to exist before and none were added without feeling they were worthwhile. Consider this an open source book of free ideas that anyone may use and share. It is the author’s personal contribution to the gaming community.
Download or read book Notebook of New Video Game Ideas Book Four written by Adam Jeremy Capps and published by Adam Jeremy Capps. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s a secret to everyone.” This free-use public domain book contains 300 ideas to put into any new video game. As far as is known the ideas contained here have not yet been used. The book can also serve as a lot of “food for thought.” They are not synopsis based ideas here but rather element based ideas. This book was hand written and contains a number of drawings. This book may be used with or without credit and shared, as it is in the public domain.
Download or read book Game Ideas Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy notebook is perfect for game developers to quickly jot down ideas for video games . If you're an game Developer or game designer, chances are that you're constantly coming up with ideas for cool and interesting games to make. This journal allows you to quickly record and keep track of them for brainstorming purposes, or for future use. Would make a perfect gift for anyone interested in game design or becoming a game developer. Each page has a space at the top for writing the title or name of the game idea, a space for filling in how long you estimate that the project would take and a space for the game's "elevator pitch". (a sentence or two that explains your game) as well as a game developing progress to keep traking your level of progress . The rest of each page is simply filled with blank lines to write whatever you want about the game idea.
Download or read book Thesaurus of Video Game Ideas written by Adam Jeremy Capps and published by Adam Jeremy Capps. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesaurus of Video Game Ideas describes topics in game making. There are many topics contained in it and are all comprehensively described. It is a dictionary of video game ideas used as a reference for video game makers.
Download or read book Notebook Of New Video Game Ideas Book Three written by Adam Jeremy Capps and published by Adam Jeremy Capps. This book was released on 2023-03-19 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 350 ideas… Great, free, and anonymous help for a game maker. “It’s a secret to everyone,” in this public domain book. As far as is known these are never before used ideas. Nothing was added without it feeling worthy of being included. There is no filler here. No space was taken for granted. These ideas are not so synopsis based than they are element based. In other words they are more “ideas within a game” than they are “ideas for a game.” This book is sure to be a great help for any who use it and take it as being unconditionally free.
Download or read book Playing Nature written by Alenda Y. Chang and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of entertainment to do something serious—like help us save the planet? As one of the signature issues of the twenty-first century, ecological deterioration is seemingly everywhere, but it is rarely considered via the realm of interactive digital play. In Playing Nature, Alenda Y. Chang offers groundbreaking methods for exploring this vital overlap. Arguing that games need to be understood as part of a cultural response to the growing ecological crisis, Playing Nature seeds conversations around key environmental science concepts and terms. Chang suggests several ways to rethink existing game taxonomies and theories of agency while revealing surprising fundamental similarities between game play and scientific work. Gracefully reconciling new media theory with environmental criticism, Playing Nature examines an exciting range of games and related art forms, including historical and contemporary analog and digital games, alternate- and augmented-reality games, museum exhibitions, film, and science fiction. Chang puts her surprising ideas into conversation with leading media studies and environmental humanities scholars like Alexander Galloway, Donna Haraway, and Ursula Heise, ultimately exploring manifold ecological futures—not all of them dystopian.
Download or read book Trapped in a Video Game written by Dustin Brady and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Rigsby hates video games—and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good! With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, this is a great series for kids who think they don’t like to read!
Download or read book Drama Menu written by Glyn Trefor-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Download or read book Start Your Video Game Career written by Jason W. Bay and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to start your career making video games from game industry expert Jason W. Bay! This practical "question and answer" book offers insider advice, information, and inspiration on how to get a job and grow your career making video games.
Download or read book Notebook of New Video Game Ideas Book Six written by Adam Jeremy Capps and published by Adam Jeremy Capps. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with 300 ideas for any new video game. These are ideas based on new elements, not stories or settings and are definitely not synopsis based. For example these are ideas for things like new power ups, weapons, spells, special effects, and enemies, and not where the game takes place, character backgrounds, the plot, and such things. This is a handwritten book with drawings made in a personal notebook. These ideas are 100% free to use in this new public domain book.
Download or read book Game Programming Patterns written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.
