Game Design Essentials (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-23933-9 (ISBN)
design
The quickly evolving mobile market is spurring digital game
creation into the stratosphere, with revenue from games exceeding
that of the film industry. With this guide to the basics, you'll
get in on the game of digital game design while you learn the
skills required for storyboarding, character creation, environment
creation, level design, programming, and testing.
* Teaches basic skill sets in the context of current systems,
genres, and game-play styles
* Demonstrates how to design for different sectors within gaming
including console, PC, handheld, and mobile
* Explores low-poly modeling for game play
* Addresses character and prop animation, lighting and rendering,
and environment design
* Discusses the path from concept to product, including pre- and
post-production
* Includes real-world scenarios and interviews with key studio
and industry professionals
With Game Design Essentials, you'll benefit from a
general-but-thorough overview of the core art and technology
fundamentals of digital game design for the 21st century.
Briar Lee Mitchell is a partner in the gaming company Star Mountain Studios, as well as a creator of the successful adventure game Apparitions, made with SyFy's ghost hunters, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. She was previously a lead artist at Universal Studios Games Division, overseeing the art for K-6 edutainment computer games. Her career began in the 1980s with Lucasfilm and the Smithsonian on their first interactive laserdisc, The Life and Times of Albert Einstein. Mitchell has a master's degree in medical and biological illustration from the University of California, San Francisco, and she has worked for Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale medical institutions producing medical/forensic illustrations and animations. She has also taught courses in visual effects, animation, and game art design at the college level.
Introduction xix
Chapter 1 Game Design Origins 1
Chapter 2 Gameplay Styles 25
Chapter 3 Core Game Design Concepts 43
Chapter 4 Visual Design 81
Chapter 5 Detailed Development of Visuals 111
Chapter 6 Navigation and Interfaces 139
Chapter 7 Designing Levels and the Game Design Document 165
Chapter 8 Sound 185
Chapter 9 Job Descriptions, Game Tracking, and Legal Issues
203
Chapter 10 Distribution and Marketing 225
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 249
Appendix B Education, Training, and Working in Games 255
Appendix C Game Design Document 275
Index 289
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.2012 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design |
| Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook | |
| Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele | |
| Schlagworte | Computer-Ratgeber • End-User Computing • game design, game design training, game design jobs, game designer, how to become a game designer, how to design games, skills needed to become a game designer, training needed to become a game designer, getting started in game design, training book to become a game designer, game design essential skills, game design basics, game design concepts, basics of game design, concepts of game design, overview of game design, game design overview, the game design industry, learning about the game design industry, j • Graphics & Design software (Non-Microsoft) • Graphik- u. Designsoftware (auÃer Microsoft) • Graphik- u. Designsoftware (außer Microsoft) • Spieleprogrammierung |
| ISBN-10 | 1-118-23933-4 / 1118239334 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-23933-9 / 9781118239339 |
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