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Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game - with Unity and C# Paperback – 8 July 2014

by Jeremy Gibson (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars 83
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This hands-on guide covers both game development and design, and both Unity and C#. Written by an instructor who helped pioneer America's #1 university game development program at USC, this guide illuminates the basic tenets of game design and presents a detailed, project-based introduction to game prototyping and development, using both paper and the Unity game engine. Jeremy Gibson presents prototyping as a core game design skill (much as sketching is a core artist's skill), taking a straightforward, commonsense approach that has been refined over many years of teaching beginners. Throughout, students are encouraged to experiment on their own, and to discover that most problems have multiple solutions.

 

Jeremy Gibson shares a 30-minute on screen Unity workshop in this video.

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    0321933168
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0321933164
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    ADDISON WESLEY
  5. Publication date
    8 July 2014
  6. Part of series
    Game Design
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    17.78 x 5.08 x 22.86 cm
  9. Print length
    944 pages
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Praise for Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development

“Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development combines a solid grounding in evolving game design theory with a wealth of detailed examples of prototypes for digital games. Together these provide an excellent introduction to game design and development that culminates in making working games with Unity. This book will be useful for both introductory courses and as a reference for expert designers. I will be using this book in my game design classes, and it will be among those few to which I often refer.”

–Michael Sellers

Professor of Practice in Game Design, Indiana University, former Creative Director at Rumble Entertainment, and General Manager at Kabam

“Prototyping and play-testing are often the most misunderstood and/or underutilized steps in the game design and development process. Iterative cycles of testing and refining are key to the early stages of making a good game. Novices will often believe that they need to know everything about a language or build every asset of the game before they can really get started. Gibson’s new book prepares readers to go ahead and dive in to the actual design and prototyping process right away; providing the basics of process and technology with excellent “starter kits” for different types of games to jumpstart their entry into the practice.”

–Stephen Jacobs

Associate Director, RIT Center for Media, Art, Games, Interaction, and Creativity (MAGIC) and Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media

“Jeremy Gibson’s Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development deftly combines the necessary philosophical and practical concepts for anyone looking to become a Game Designer. This book will take you on a journey from high-level design theories, through game development concepts and programming foundations in order to make your own playable video games. Jeremy uses his years of experience as a professor to teach the reader how to think with vital game design mindsets so that you can create a game with all the right tools at hand. A must-read for someone who wants to dive right into making their first game and a great refresher for industry veterans.”

–Michelle Pun

Senior Game Designer, Zynga

Review

Praise for Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development

“Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development combines a solid grounding in evolving game design theory with a wealth of detailed examples of prototypes for digital games. Together these provide an excellent introduction to game design and development that culminates in making working games with Unity. This book will be useful for both introductory courses and as a reference for expert designers. I will be using this book in my game design classes, and it will be among those few to which I often refer.”

–Michael Sellers

Professor of Practice in Game Design, Indiana University, former Creative Director at Rumble Entertainment, and General Manager at Kabam

“Prototyping and play-testing are often the most misunderstood and/or underutilized steps in the game design and development process. Iterative cycles of testing and refining are key to the early stages of making a good game. Novices will often believe that they need to know everything about a language or build every asset of the game before they can really get started. Gibson’s new book prepares readers to go ahead and dive in to the actual design and prototyping process right away; providing the basics of process and technology with excellent “starter kits” for different types of games to jumpstart their entry into the practice.”

–Stephen Jacobs

Associate Director, RIT Center for Media, Art, Games, Interaction, and Creativity (MAGIC) and Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media

“Jeremy Gibson’s Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development deftly combines the necessary philosophical and practical concepts for anyone looking to become a Game Designer. This book will take you on a journey from high-level design theories, through game development concepts and programming foundations in order to make your own playable video games. Jeremy uses his years of experience as a professor to teach the reader how to think with vital game design mindsets so that you can create a game with all the right tools at hand. A must-read for someone who wants to dive right into making their first game and a great refresher for industry veterans.”

–Michelle Pun

Senior Game Designer, Zynga

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ADDISON WESLEY; 1st edition (8 July 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 944 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321933168
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321933164
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 5.08 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jeremy Gibson Bond is a Professor of Practice teaching game design and development at Michigan State University. Since 2013, he has served the IndieCade independent game festival and conference as the Chair of Education and Advancement, where he co-chairs the IndieXchange summit each year and has also chaired the GameU summit. In 2013, Jeremy founded the company ExNinja Interactive, through which he develops his independent game projects. Jeremy has also spoken several times at the Game Developers Conference.

Prior to joining the MSUGames faculty, Jeremy taught for three years as a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where he taught game design and software development. And, from 2009-2013, Jeremy was an Assistant Professor teaching game design for the Interactive Media and Games Division of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, which was named the #1 game design school in North America throughout his tenure there.

Jeremy earned a Master of Entertainment Technology degree from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Jeremy has worked as a programmer and prototyper for companies such as Human Code and frog design, has taught classes for Great Northern Way Campus (in Vancouver, BC), Texas State University, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Austin Community College, and the University of Texas at Austin, and has worked for Walt Disney Imagineering, Maxis, and Electronic Arts/Pogo.com, among others. While in graduate school, his team created the game Skyrates, which won the Silver Gleemax Award at the 2008 Independent Games Festival. Jeremy also apparently has the distinction of being the first person to ever teach game design in Costa Rica.

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Reviewed in Mexico on 26 July 2017
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The packaging was just the right size of the book, maybe it could have been wrapped before packaging, but the book arrived in great conditions.
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Mr. P. R. Blackburn
5.0 out of 5 stars Super informative and easy to read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2018
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I haven't finished this book yet but I'm nearing the end of roughly the first third of the book, which consists mainly of theory behind games design, prototyping and development, without yet touching on any programming principles or practical examples. Having skimmed the rest of the book, the coding segments look super informative and I'm very much looking forward to getting down to the practical modules and game development examples. I already have a good understanding of Unity and C#, but I expect to cement my understanding with the knowledge found in here and make sure I haven't missed anything important in my self-taught teachings. I also highly recommend the Coursera "Unity Certified Programmer Exam Preparation" course by Jeremy Bond, which I recently completed. Great stuff.
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RSDC
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning
Reviewed in Canada on 24 May 2016
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Great book, Learned lots and easy to follow.
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Mike Kammerer
5.0 out of 5 stars this book has opened my eyes to a good number of things I would have never stumbled upon ...
Reviewed in the United States on 13 January 2015
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To begin I admit this is the first review I have ever done for anything. I have purchased, read, and performed the tasks from quite a few Unity books already so although still new to programming, I am at least familiar with it. That being said, this book has opened my eyes to a good number of things I would have never stumbled upon anywhere else. A great deal of research has gone into the first part of this book providing many other reading choices to further elaborate on things the author discusses. This first part of the 3 part book showed me a few definitions of what a game is as defined by various people. Although a somewhat dry read there is a wealth of information to be had here.

Part 2 introduces a few snippets of coding scripts and working in the Unity environment. Mostly tutorials and such that I already had some practice in. Great for any noob dev like myself to get your feet wet and learn. I am just beginning Part 3 and can only assume the prototypes will be on a scale similar to many other books. And I do so look forward to it.

The best things to take away from this book that cannot be found elsewhere are things like paper prototyping, design strategies, and even charts to keep the entire dev team focused and on goal. Everything else can be had in any other Beginner Unity books. But these few exceptions make this particular read well worth the money, especially if you are brand new and have some ideas but are not really too sure how to bring them to life the way you imagine they can be. Of the dozen or so books i presently own on Unity, this is easily a top 2 pick, one I will keep very close for reference throughout my Design/dev journey!
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Andres
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Reviewed in Spain on 27 August 2015
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I hace not read it entirely but I found it great un concepts, and very good in programming aspects. There is a lack of contener depth un my opinion, but it is easily solved via Google.
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