Game Design

Secrets of The Sages

Marc A. Saltzman

454 pages, parution le 22/05/2000 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

What's Now in This Edition:
More information about the console gaming market

How multiplayer gameplay is affecting the industry
More game and design theory, with inspirations
and insights from the experts
Updated content on the newest, hottest games

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Game Genres and Playing Perspectives
Chapter 2: General Game Design: Action and Strategy Games
Chapter 3: General Game Design: Adventure, RPG, Sports, Puzzles, and Sims
Chapter 4: Creating Characters, Storvboarding, and Design Does
Chapter 5: Puzzle Design
Chapter 6: Level Design
Chapter 7: Mission Design
Chapter 8: Programming
Chapter 9: Artificial Intelligence (Al)
Chapter 10: Game Art
Chapter 11: Animation
Chapter 12: The All-Important User Interface (UI) and Game Control
Chapter 13: Sound Engineering
Chapter 14: Music and Games
Chapter 15: Testing
Chapter 16: Marketing and Public Relations ..... 299
Chapter 17: Gaming Web Site Design
Chapter 18: Technical Support and Customer Service
Chapter 19: Doing It Yourself and the Shareware Revolution
Chapter 20: Breaking Into the Industry
Chapter 21: (lame Agents and Headhunters
Chapter 22: Divine Intervention-GOD's Way
Chapter 23: Design Schools
Chapter 24: Game Design Resources on the Internet
Chapter 25: Key Conventions, Organizations, and Awards
Appendix Biographies
Index

L'auteur - Marc A. Saltzman

Marc Saltzman

is a freelance journalist for over 50 game-related and consumer publications, including USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Tonight Online, Modern Maturity, Playboy magazine, Playboy.com, Yahoo! Internet Life, Next Generation, PC Gamer, PC Accelerator, Gamecenter, Gamesmania.com, Golf Digest, Stuff magazine, and many more. Ile has also written three books and one CD-ROM for Macmillan Publishing and two in-game manuals: Quake II and Sin.