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Beschreibung
Basics of Game Design is for anyone wanting to become a professional game designer. Focusing on creating the game mechanics for data-driven games, it covers role-playing, real-time strategy, first-person shooter, simulation, and other games. Written by a 25-year veteran of the game industry, the guide offers detailed explanations of how to design the data sets used to resolve game play for moving, combat, solving puzzles, interacting with NPCs, managing inventory, and much more. Advice on developing stories for games, building maps and levels, and designing the graphical user interface is also included.
Basics of Game Design is for anyone wanting to become a professional game designer. Focusing on creating the game mechanics for data-driven games, it covers role-playing, real-time strategy, first-person shooter, simulation, and other games. Written by a 25-year veteran of the game industry, the guide offers detailed explanations of how to design the data sets used to resolve game play for moving, combat, solving puzzles, interacting with NPCs, managing inventory, and much more. Advice on developing stories for games, building maps and levels, and designing the graphical user interface is also included.
Über den Autor
Michael Moore is writer and filmmaker from Texas who has a love for three things: martial arts, westerns, and a great cheeseburger. Michael wrote the comic books El Gato Negro: Legacy and Team Tejas, and also wrote, directed and edited the short action films El Gato Negro: Prey and Cornered. Michael is currently writing his second novel Message in the Dark before starting on the next adventure of Jack Tarver and the Liberty Saints. He currently lives in Texas with his wife and two sons.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Making Games. Game Play and Game Mechanics. Math and Logic in Games. Inside Game Mechanics. On Movement. On Combat. On Characters and Monsters. On Items. On Magicks and Technologies. On Puzzles in Games. Implementing the Design. Storytelling in Games. Designing Playfields. Interface Design. A Conversation with Chris Taylor.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781568814339
ISBN-10: 156881433X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Moore, Michael
Hersteller: A K Peters/CRC Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Moore
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.03.2011
Gewicht: 0,566 kg
Artikel-ID: 133482165