For courses in Fundamentals of Game Design for all video game developers and designers With a focus on designing for the commercial entertainment market, this text teaches the principles and practice of game design and covers each of the major game genres individually.

Fundamentals of Game Design

Computers & Technology

ADAMS, ERNEST

Rollings, Andrew

Games & Strategy Guides

Pearson College Div

To create a great video game, you must start with a solid game design: A well-designed game is easier to build, more entertaining, and has a better chance of succeeding in the marketplace. Here to teach you the essential skills of player-centric game design is one of the industry’s leading authorities, who offers a first-hand look into the process, from initial concept to final tuning. Now in its second edition, this updated classic reference by Ernest Adams offers a complete and practical approach to game design, and includes material on concept development, gameplay design, core mechanics, user interfaces, storytelling, and balancing. In an easy-to-follow approach, Adams analyzes the specific design challenges of all the major game genres and shows you how to apply the principles of game design to each one. You’ll learn how to: 
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<li>Define the challenges and actions at the heart of the gameplay.</li> <li>Write a high-concept document, a treatment, and a full design script.</li> <li>Understand the essentials of user interface design and how to define a game’s look and feel.</li> <li>Design for a variety of input mechanisms, including the Wii controller and multi-touch iPhone.</li> <li>Construct a game’s core mechanics and flow of resources (money, points, ammunition, and more). 
</li> <li>Develop appealing stories, game characters, and worlds that players will want to visit, including persistent worlds.</li> <li>Work on design problems with engaging end-of-chapter exercises, design worksheets, and case studies.</li> <li>Make your game accessible to broader audiences such as children, adult women, people with disabilities, and casual players. </li> </ul>
 “Ernest Adams provides encyclopedic coverage of process and design issues for every aspect of game design, expressed as practical lessons that can be immediately applied to a design in-progress. He offers the best framework I’ve seen for thinking about the relationships between core mechanics, gameplay, and player—one that I’ve found useful for both teaching and research.” — Michael Mateas, University of California at Santa Cruz, co-creator of Façade

New Riders Pub

This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what you’ve learned with hands-on lessons. A free downloadable simulation tool developed by Joris Dormans is also available in order to follow along with exercises in the book in an easy-to-use graphical environment. In Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design, you’ll learn how to: * Design and balance game mechanics to create emergent gameplay before you write a single line of code. * Visualize the internal economy so that you can immediately see what goes on in a complex game. * Use novel prototyping techniques that let you simulate games and collect vast quantities of gameplay data on the first day of development. * Apply design patterns for game mechanics—from a library in this book—to improve your game designs. * Explore the delicate balance between game mechanics and level design to create compelling, long-lasting game experiences. * Replace fixed, scripted events in your game with dynamic progression systems to give your players a new experience every time they play. "I've been waiting for a book like this for ten years: packed with game design goodness that tackles the science without undermining the art." --Richard Bartle, University of Essex, co-author of the first MMORPG “Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design by Joris Dormans &amp; Ernest Adams formalizes game grammar quite well. Not sure I need to write a next book now!” -- Raph Koster, author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design.

Game Mechanics

Dormans, Joris

Now in its third edition, the classic book on game design has been completely revised to include the latest developments in the game industry. Readers will learn all the fundamentals of concept development, gameplay design, core mechanics, user interfaces, storytelling, and balancing. They’ll be introduced to designing for mobile devices and touch screens, as well as for the Kinect and motion-capture gameplay. They’ll learn how indie developers are pushing the envelope and how new business models such as free-to-play are influencing design. In an easy-to-follow approach, Adams offers a first-hand look into the process of designing a game, from initial concept to final tuning. This in-depth resource also comes with engaging end-of-chapter exercises, design worksheets, and case studies.

New Riders

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office in 10 Minutes is the easiest way to learn the most important tasks that every user should know in the Office applications. This book presents features in the context of normal every-day tasks in Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint that any user might find themselves in need of. A perfect companion for anyone looking to learn the key features of Office in the least amount of time possible, Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000 in 10 Minutes gets you familiar with all of the Office applications quickly.

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000 in 10 Minutes

Networking & Cloud Computing

Pearson Technology Group

The Elements of the English Language

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

World

BiblioLife

The Rudiments of English Grammar and Analysis

Nabu Press

Elements of the English Language

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The Elements of English Language

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