The Game Designer's Playbook
An Introduction to Game Interaction Design
$146.51
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2022
Summary
Video games have captivated us for over 50 years, giving us entire worlds to explore, new ways to connect with friends, thought-provoking stories, or just a fun way to pass the time. Creating games is a dream for many, but making great games is challenging.
The Game Designer’s Playbook is about meeting that challenge. More specifically, it’s a book about game interaction design; in other words, shaping what players can do and how they do it to make a game satisfying and memor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198845911 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 019884591X |
| Author: | Samantha Stahlke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 810g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Samantha Stahlke
Samantha Stahlke is a video game artist from Ontario, Canada. She works at mobile developer Jam City and contributes to Vertigo Gaming’s latest project, Cook Serve Forever. Her background is focused on game programming and user research. She conducted her graduate research on the automated evaluation of level design and has worked as an independent game UX consultant. She has also taught multiple courses in the areas of game design and development.
Pejman Mirza-Babaei is a Game UX consultant, author, and professor. His work encompasses many different aspects of the game experience, including game interaction, accessibility, and developing novel technologies. He co-edited the Games User Research book (2018), a compendium of insights from over 40 experts on UX research in games. He was the UX Research Director at Execution Labs (Montréal, Canada) from 2015-17 and UX Researcher at Vertical Slice/Player Research (Brighton, UK) from 2009-13. Pejman worked on pre- and post-release evaluation of more than 25 commercial games, including award-winning titles such as Crysis 2, PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist, A Fold Apart and Weirdwood Manor.
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