Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers

Learn the mechanics that take your game from an idea to a playable product. Do you aspire...
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Author: Ethan Ham
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Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers by Ham, Ethan

Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers

$234.25

Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers

$234.25
Author: Ethan Ham
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Learn the mechanics that take your game from an idea to a playable product.

Do you aspire to be a game designer but aren't sure where to begin? Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers guides you through your initial attempts to design game mechanics. It goes beyond simple description and definition to explore in detail the issues that designers grapple with for every game they create.

Learning to design tabletop games builds a solid foundation for game designers and provides methods that can be applied towards creating paper prototypes of computer-targeted games. Presented in a step-by-step format, Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers helps the reader understand how the game design skills that are acquired through creating tabletop games can be used when designing video games. Fully playable games accompany every topic so you can truly understand and experience each component that goes into game creation.

Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers includes:

  • Simple, highly focused games that can be played, analyzed, improved, and/or modified in conjunction with a particular topic in the book.
  • Integrated game design exercises, chapter learning objectives, and in-text sidebars to provide further examples to apply directly to your game creation process.
  • A companion website (www.funmines.com) which includes: "print & play" tabletop games, links to online games, game design resources, and articles about designing and developing games.


Author: Ethan Ham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/14/2015
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415627016


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2016

About the Author

Ethan Ham has eleven years' experience in the computer game & media industry as a game designer, programmer, and producer. He has helped develop games that have garnered numerous awards including E3 Game Critic Best Simulation Game, the Academic of Interactive Arts & Sciences Best Massively Multiplayer Game, and Game Industry News Online Game of the Year. In addition to his ongoing work developing and writing about games, Ethan is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Interactive Media at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.




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