The Art of Game Design

4.1 avg 7 votes

About this book

Presents the fundamentals of game design from one of the world's top game designers. Exploring the unusual territory that is game design, the book demonstrates how the basic principles of psychology used in board games, card games, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. The author gives readers 100+ sets of insightful questions to ask themselves to make their games better. These questions provide insight from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology.

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4.1/5 · 7 readers · 610 pages · ≈ 11 h 18 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read The Art of Game Design?

About ≈ 11 h 18 m — 610 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mThe Art of Game Design~11 h 18 m

How many pages is The Art of Game Design?

610 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320The Art of Game Design610

Is The Art of Game Design in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote The Art of Game Design?

Jesse Schell.

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