FIFTH edition COMING SOON!
This book helps you to create the digital games you love to play, using a non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic experience.
Award-winning author Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with clear and accessible guidance on the formal, dramatic, and dynamic systems of game design. Using examples of classic and popular games, illustrations of design techniques, and refined exercises to strengthen your understanding of how game systems function, the book gives you the skills and tools necessary to create a compelling and engaging game.
This updated 5th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion-focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them. It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.
Reviews from the fourth edition …
“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
“It’s a great book, and has become, in my opinion, the de facto standard text for beginner to intermediate level game design education. The current edition works well in this context, but the new edition will make a significant positive impact on the relevance and utility of the text.”
— Richard Lemarchand, Interactive Media and Games Division, USC School of Cinematic Arts
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, Studio Director, Otherside Entertainment
