Players making decisions game design essentials and the art of understanding your players 1st edition by Hiwiller 013439464X 9780134394640

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 013439464X
• ISBN 13: 9780134394640
• Author: Hiwiller

Game designers today are expected to have an arsenal of multi-disciplinary skills at their disposal in the fields of art and design, computer programming, psychology, economics, composition, education, mythology—and the list goes on. How do you distill a vast universe down to a few salient points? Players Making Decisions brings together the wide range of topics that are most often taught in modern game design courses and focuses on the core concepts that will be useful for students for years to come. A common theme to many of these concepts is the art and craft of creating games in which players are engaged by making meaningful decisions.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Getting Started

1. What Is a Game Designer?

Responsibilities of a Game Designer

Attributes of a Game Designer

Varied Interests

Persistence

Mindset and Purpose

Make Things

Cultivate Your Gardens

On Ontology and Dogma

Formalism

Summary

2. Problem Statements

Defining the Problem

Low-Hanging Fruit

Functional Fixedness

Brainstorming

Summary

3. Development Structures

Production Methodologies

Waterfall

Iterative Processes

Climbing the Pyramid

Scope

Summary

4. Starting Practices

Analog Games

Theme and Mechanics

Next Steps

Designing for Others

Opening Questions

Summary

Part 2: Prototypes and Playtesting

5. Paper Prototyping Development Techniques

Software and Materials

Art

Cards

InDesign Data Merge

Summary

6. Playtesting

Playtesting Goals

Playtesting Benefits

Listening to Feedback

Fear of Critique

Confirmation Bias

Finding Playtesters

Iterating

Summary

7. Playtesting Methods

The Testing Environment

Keep Playtesters Talking

A/B Testing

Self-Playtesting

Summary

8. Prototypes and Intellectual Property

Do I Need an NDA?

Ideas and Value

Summary

Part 3: Meaningful Decisions

9. Flow and the Fundamental Game Design Directive

10. Decision-Making

11. Randomness

12. Goals

Part 4: Describing Game Elements

13. Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics (MDA)

14. Milieu

15. Rules and Verbs

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