New Riders, 2012, ISBN: 0321820274, 360 pages. This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what you’ve learned with hands-on lessons. A free downloadable simulation tool developed by Joris Dormans is also available in order to follow along with exercises in the book in an easy-to-use graphical environment.
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2nd edition. New Riders, 2009. 700 pages ISBN10: 0321643372; ISBN13: 978-0321643377; 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...
John Wiley & Sons, 2014. — 781 p. — ISBN: 978-1118328033. На англ. языке. People play digital games for many reasons, from entertainment to professional training, but all games share the same basic characteristics. From those basic parameters, gaming professionals manage to create the enormous variety of games on the market today. The Handbook of Digital Games explores the many...
Addison-Wesley, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0321940156, ISBN13: 978-0321940155. На англ. языке. Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques is a detailed overview of many of the important algorithms and techniques used in video game programming today. Designed for programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming and basic data structures, this book focuses on practical...
Genever Benning, 2014. — 380 p. — ISBN10: 0990582906, ISBN13: 978-0-9905829-2-2. 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...
The MIT Press Cambridge, 2004. — 694 p. This book is about games, all kinds of games: paper-based strategy games and first person shooters, classical board games and glitzy gambling games; math puzzles and professional sports; austere text adventures and giggly teenage party games. This book links these diverse play activities within a common framework - a framework based in...
CRC Press, 2014. — 600 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 1466598646, 9781466598645 Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture,...