How often have you heard anyone can design a game? This work introduces both students and experienced developers to the craft of designing computer and video games for the retail market. Filled with examples and worksheets, it takes an accessible, practical approach to creating fun, innovative, and highly playable games.

For a long time story and character development were shrugged off by the games industry. Now games are attempting to reach an ever broadening market that demands more sophistication, at least equal to that found in other media. Writers of games need the tools presented here to enable them to meet that demand. This is the first book of its kind to deal specifically with a subject many readers ...

A guide to game design and planning from first concept to the start of development, including case studies of well known games. It covers skills and techniques found in the industry. Presenting re-usable code, it is a study that deals with the issues of game design, team building and management, and game architecture.

For the countless tasks involved in creating a game engine there are an equal number of possible solutions. This text is a hands-on, comprehensive resource packed with a variety of game programming algorithms written by experts from the game industry.

As a game designer or media storyteller, you know that the story is everything. However, figuring out how to tell it interactively - can be challenging. This work provides examples of contemporary games that rely on different technologies - and learn the storytelling lessons to be garnered from each of the past methodologies.

This title is written by the designer behind best selling games like Betrayal at Krondor , Planet's Edge , amd Might and Magic 3: Isles of Terra . It should allow the reader to decipher game development tools like plot trees, world bibles, design documents, and game scripts.