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Challenges for Game Designers | 
 enlarge | Authors: Brenda Brathwaite, Ian Schreiber
Publisher: Charles River Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 133721
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 317
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 158450580X
Dewey Decimal Number: 794.81536
EAN: 9781584505808
ASIN: 158450580X
Publication Date: August 21, 2008
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Welcome to a book written to challenge you, improve your brainstorming abilities, and sharpen your game design skills! Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designers is filled with enjoyable, interesting, and challenging exercises to help you become a better video game designer, whether you are a professional or aspire to be. Each chapter covers a different topic important to game designers, and was taken from actual industry experience. After a brief overview of the topic, there are five challenges that each take less than two hours and allow you to apply the material, explore the topic, and expand your knowledge in that area. Each chapter also includes 10 non-digital shorts to further hone your skills. None of the challenges in the book require any programming or a computer, but many of the topics feature challenges that can be made into fully functioning games. The book is useful for professional designers, aspiring designers, and instructors who teach game design courses, and the challenges are great for both practice and homework assignments. The book can be worked through chapter by chapter, or you can skip around and do only the challenges that interest you. As with anything else, making great games takes practice and Challenges for Game Designers provides you with a collection of fun, thoughtprovoking, and of course, challenging activities that will help you hone vital skills and become the best game designer you can be.
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Great primer for the budding designer! September 8, 2008
New Rule
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I think this book is great for teaching the novice/intermediate game designer how to go about it. The breakdown of the elements of games and game design coupled with tons of exercises and challenges make it a perfect resource to push yourself as a designer. Anyone who wants to design games should get this and try every one of the challenges!
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