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Beschreibung

This book shows how to embed a tutorial directly into game design mechanics so that games naturally and comfortably teach players to have fun. It links game design principles with psychology through the game tutorial and offers easy-to-implement changes that can make a huge difference in how players receive games. It explains how to educate new players and engage experienced players at the same time through a combination of good design and basic understanding of human educational, motivational, and cognitive psychologies.

This book shows how to embed a tutorial directly into game design mechanics so that games naturally and comfortably teach players to have fun. It links game design principles with psychology through the game tutorial and offers easy-to-implement changes that can make a huge difference in how players receive games. It explains how to educate new players and engage experienced players at the same time through a combination of good design and basic understanding of human educational, motivational, and cognitive psychologies.

Über den Autor
Matthew M. White is an assistant professor in game development at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he teaches game design, computer science, and software engineering. He previously worked on interfaces, human-computer interaction, and game programming at the University of Prince Edward Island and Snow Day Games, a small indie studio. He earned his [...]. in instructional design and technology focusing on the design of games from the University of New Brunswick and his Ph.D. in education from Memorial University of Newfoundland, co-supervised through York University's Education and Game Studies faculty.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. The Tutorial. Learning Things. Rage-Quit. Facts about Players. Eyes and Ears. Return of the Tutorial: Escape from Skull Island. Bullet Point Learning Design. Appendix. Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Programmiersprachen
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781482220193
ISBN-10: 1482220199
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: White, Matthew M
Hersteller: CRC Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 231 x 150 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew M White
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2014
Gewicht: 0,299 kg
Artikel-ID: 133017152