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Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Third Edition Paperback – 5 March 2014

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Create the Digital Games You Love to Play

Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic expertise using Game Design Workshop, Third Edition.

Author Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with a clear and accessible analysis of the formal and dramatic systems of game design. Examples of popular games, illustrations of design techniques, and refined exercises strengthen your understanding of how game systems function and give you the skills and tools necessary to create a compelling and engaging game.

The book puts you to work prototyping, playtesting, and revising your own games with time-tested methods and tools. It provides you with the foundation to advance your career in any facet of the game industry, including design, producing, programming, and visual design.

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"Game Design Workshop is a truly great book and has become, in my opinion, the de facto standard text for beginner- to intermediate-level game design education. This updated new edition is extremely relevant, useful, and inspiring to all kinds of game designers."
―Richard Lemarchand, Interactive Media & Games Division, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

"This is the perfect time for a new edition. The updates refresh elements of the book that are important as examples, but don’t radically alter the thing about the book that is great: a playcentric approach to game design."
―Colleen Macklin, Associate Professor, Parsons The New School for Design

"Tracy Fullerton’s Game Design Workshop covers pretty much everything a working or wannabe game designer needs to know. She covers game theory, concepting, prototyping, testing, and tuning, with stops along the way to discuss what it means to a professional game designer and how to land a job. When I started thinking about my game studies course at the University of Texas at Austin, this was one book I knew I had to use."
―Warren Spector, Creative Director, Junction Point Studios

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"Game Design Workshop is a truly great book and has become, in my opinion, the de facto standard text for beginner- to intermediate-level game design education. This updated new edition is extremely relevant, useful, and inspiring to all kinds of game designers."
―Richard Lemarchand, Interactive Media & Games Division, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

"This is the perfect time for a new edition. The updates refresh elements of the book that are important as examples, but don’t radically alter the thing about the book that is great: a playcentric approach to game design."
―Colleen Macklin, Associate Professor, Parsons The New School for Design

"Tracy Fullerton’s Game Design Workshop covers pretty much everything a working or wannabe game designer needs to know. She covers game theory, concepting, prototyping, testing, and tuning, with stops along the way to discuss what it means to a professional game designer and how to land a job. When I started thinking about my game studies course at the University of Texas at Austin, this was one book I knew I had to use."
―Warren Spector, Creative Director, Junction Point Studios

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ A K Peters/CRC Press; 3rd edition (5 March 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 535 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1482217163
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1482217162
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.42 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 82

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Tracy Fullerton

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Tracy Fullerton is an experimental game designer, professor and founding director (emeritus) of the USC Games program at the University of Southern California. Her research center, the USC Game Innovation Lab, has produced a number of influential independent games, including Cloud, flOw, Darfur is Dying, and The Night Journey, with media artist Bill Viola. She is the designer and director of Walden, game, an adaptation of Henry David Thoreau’s experiment at Walden Pond, which was named “Game of the Year” at Games for Change 2017 and “Developer’s Choice” at IndieCade 2017. Tracy is also the author of “Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games,” a foundational design textbook in use at game programs worldwide, and holder of the Electronic Arts Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment. Other recent projects include Collegeology, a suite of college preparation games funded by the Department of Education, the Gilbert Foundation and the Gates Foundation and Reality Ends Here, an award-winning alternate reality game. Prior to joining USC, she was president and founder of the interactive television game developer, Spiderdance, Inc. Spiderdance’s games included NBC’s Weakest Link, MTV’s webRIOT, The WB’s No Boundaries, History Channel’s History IQ, Sony Game Show Network’s Inquizition and TBS’s Cyber Bond. Before starting Spiderdance, Tracy was a founding member of the New York design firm R/GA Interactive, Creative Director at the interactive film studio Interfilm and a designer at 3D graphics pioneer Robert Abel’s early interactive company Synapse. Tracy’s work has received numerous honors including an Emmy nomination for interactive television, Indiecade’s “Sublime Experience,” “Impact,” and “Trailblazer” awards, Games for Change “Game Changer” award, and the Game Developers Choice “Ambassador” Award. In September 2016, she was named the People’s Choice for most inspiring LA Woman in Los Angeles Magazine.

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jose carlos montero
5.0 out of 5 stars Imprescindible.
Reviewed in Spain on 24 October 2019
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UN libro imprescindible para comprender los mecanismos de diseño de videojuegos
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Lola Stuart
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on 6 November 2017
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Great guide for game design
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anna tjernberg
5.0 out of 5 stars Covers pretty much everything you need to know when starting out
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2017
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If you only buy one book about game design this should be it. Covers pretty much everything you need to know when starting out. Also contains really interesting interviews with different game designers.
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Adam Hill
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Textbook, Greate for Indies
Reviewed in the United States on 2 May 2014
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For students going through a multi year degrees. This can be one of your touchstone book you keep throughout your career. Practical advice and exercises for all without being too theoretical.

For indies, it a great set of practical ideas to 'stress test' your design and to explore its edges for new opportunities in game play.
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VINOD
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book.
Reviewed in India on 16 July 2015
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Nice book..but this book is not for people who are reading for fun. Consider this book if you are doing a course in game design
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