Life Is a Game: What Game Design Says about the Human Condition, Edward Castronova

Автор: Rogers, Rogers Scott
Название: Level Up! the Guide to Great Video Game Design
ISBN: 1118877160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118877166
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 29570.00 T
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Описание: Provides examples that forgo theoretical gobbledygook with charmingly illustrated concepts and solutions based on years of professional experience. This book helps you teach how to develop marketable ideas, and learn what perils and pitfalls await during a game`s pre-production, production and post-production stages.

Автор: Schell
Название: The Art of Game Design
ISBN: 1466598646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781466598645
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 51030.00 T
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Описание: 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, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner: Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design Demonstrates how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell, the former chair of the International Game Developers Association and award-winning designer of Disney online games The Art of Game Design, Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.

Автор: Kalmpourtzis
Название: Educational Game Design Fundamental
ISBN: 113863154X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138631540
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: 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!

Автор: Anthropy Anna
Название: A Game Design Vocabulary: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design
ISBN: 0321886925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780321886927
Издательство: Pearson Education
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Цена: 34310.00 T
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Описание: Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game Design Why aren't videogames getting better? Why does it feel like we're playing the same games, over and over again? Why aren't games helping us transform our lives, like great music, books, and movies do?
The problem is language. We still don't know how to talk about game design. We can't share our visions. We forget what works (and doesn't). We don't learn from history. It's too hard to improve.
The breakthrough starts here. A Game Design Vocabulary gives us the complete game design framework we desperately need--whether we create games, study them, review them, or build businesses on them.
Craft amazing experiences. Anna Anthropy and Naomi Clark share foundational principles, examples, and exercises that help you create great player experiences...complement intuition with design discipline...and craft games that succeed brilliantly on every level.

• Liberate yourself from stale cliches and genres
• Tell great stories: go way beyond cutscenes and text dumps
• Control the crucial relationships between game "verbs" and "objects"
• Wield the full power of development, conflict, climax, and resolution
• Shape scenes, pacing, and player choices
• Deepen context via art, animation, music, and sound
• Help players discover, understand, engage, and "talk back" to you
• Effectively use resistance and difficulty: the "push and pull" of games
• Design holistically: integrate visuals, audio, and controls
• Communicate a design vision everyone can understand

Автор: Sellers Michael
Название: Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach
ISBN: 0134667603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780134667607
Издательство: Pearson Education
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Цена: 54810.00 T
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Описание: In Advanced Game Design, pioneering game designer and instructor Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each other, helping game designers understand what they are trying to accomplish and the best ways to achieve it. Drawing on 20+ years of experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching game design, Sellers explains: What games are, and how systems thinking can help you think about them more clearly How to systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun What you can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks How to create gameplay and core loops How to design the entire player experience, and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that experience How to capture your game's "big idea" and Unique Selling Proposition How to establish high-level and background design and translate it into detailed design How to build, playtest, and iterate early prototypes How to build your game design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed

Автор: Edward Castronova
Название: Life Is a Game: What Game Design Says about the Human Condition
ISBN: 1501359185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501359187
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 116160.00 T
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Описание: What if life is a game? Are you winning? Have you even decided what ‘winning’ is?Game design could be defined in many ways, but here the term is used to denote the practice of creating choices. Designing a game, in this sense, involves crafting limits, rewards, incentives, and risks in such a way that the person who interacts with the game – the player – makes choices that have consequences.Edward Castronova urges readers to think about the fundamentals of the human condition and compare them to different games that we all know. In some ways, life is like an idle game: providing unchallenging distractions that fit easily into a person's daily routine. In other ways, life is like the game Minesweeper: You poke in different places to learn about what you don’t know, taking care to avoid big explosions. Or, life is like a role-playing game: You adopt a persona and speak your part, always seeking adventure. Bringing together questions relating to diverse fields – such as politics, economics, sociology and philosophy - Castronova persuades readers to broaden the scope of game design to answer questions about life’s everyday obstacles. The object of this book is to take seriously the idea that life is a game. The goal is not to make readers wealthier or healthier. Its goal is to go on a journey into the human condition, with game design as a guide.

Автор: Geoffrey Engelstein, Isaac Shalev
Название: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms
ISBN: 1138365521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138365520
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 132710.00 T
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Описание: Building Blocks is an encyclopedia of hundreds of different mechanisms, organized by category. Each mechanism includes a description of how it works, a discussion of its pros and cons, how it can be used, and examples of specific games that use it. Excellent for new designs, inspiration, or when trying to solve a problem in the midst of a design.

Автор: Freyermuth Gundolf S.
Название: Games - Game Design - Game Studies: An Introduction
ISBN: 383762983X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837629835
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 32870.00 T
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Описание: How did games rise to become the central audio-visual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new mediums social effects and cultural meaning develop? Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S Freyermuths introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analogue and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies.

Автор: Mailath G.J.
Название: Modeling Strategic Behavior: A Graduate Introduction to Game Theory and Mechanism Design
ISBN: 981323993X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813239937
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Цена: 116160.00 T
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Описание: It is impossible to understand modern economics without knowledge of the basic tools of gametheory and mechanism design. This book provides a graduate-level introduction to the economic modeling of strategic behavior. The goal is to teach Economics doctoral students the tools of game theory and mechanism design that all economists should know.

Автор: Tanya X. Short (Editor)
Название: Procedural Storytelling in Game Design
ISBN: 1138595306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138595309
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 50010.00 T
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Описание: Thoroughly updated collection of chapters covering procedural generation in video game development where the games themselves create their play areas, objects and stories based on a set of rules, rather than relying on the developer to handcraft each element individually. Examines content and system creation.

Автор: Fullerton, Tracy (university Of Southern Californi
Название: Game design workshop
ISBN: 1138098809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138098800
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design, without the need for programming or artistic expertise with Game Design Workshop, Fourth Edition.

Автор: Bree
Название: Game Based Organization Design
ISBN: 1137351470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137351470
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 93160.00 T
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Описание: There is a widening gap between the current organizational reality and the tools and methods available to managers for addressing its challenges. Game Based Organization Design shows that one of the ways to bridge this gap is to introduce insights and approaches from video game design into the design of organizational systems.