The Art of Game Design
Jesse Schell · A guide to designing better games, using questions drawn from psychology, art, and other fields.
2 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
The paradigm he constructs for how all the elements of game design fit together helped me approach game design from angles (or lenses as he calls them) I hadn't considered before.
every few pages I couldn't resist putting it down and working on my designs because I was so overwhelmed with inspiration from its amazing wisdom
Description from Open Library
Presents the fundamentals of game design from one of the world's top game designers. Exploring the unusual territory that is game design, the book demonstrates how the basic principles of psychology used in board games, card games, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games.
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The author gives readers 100+ sets of insightful questions to ask themselves to make their games better. These questions provide insight from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology.
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you design games and want fresh angles and creative inspiration.
- Offered new design angles
- Sparked creative inspiration
- Gave a framework for design
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Practical tools · 610 pages
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