Game Design Vocabulary, A: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design

Game Design Vocabulary, A: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design

<B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game Design</P> </B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Why aren’t videogames getting better?</B> 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?<BR> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>The problem is language.</B> 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.<BR> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>The breakthrough starts here.</B> 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.<BR> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Craft amazing experiences.</B> 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.</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Liberate yourself from stale clichés and genres</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Tell great stories: go way beyond cutscenes and text dumps</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Control the crucial relationships between game “verbs” and “objects”</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Wield the full power of development, conflict, climax, and resolution</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Shape scenes, pacing, and player choices</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Deepen context via art, animation, music, and sound</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Help players discover, understand, engage, and “talk back” to you</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Effectively use resistance and difficulty: the “push and pull” of games</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Design holistically: integrate visuals, audio, and controls</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Communicate a design vision everyone can understand</DIV> </LI> </UL>