The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.

• Theory of Fun for Game Design
• Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
• Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (The MIT Press)
• Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design
• Game Programming Patterns
• The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses, Second Edition
• Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games
• Challenges for Game Designers
• Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
• Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Third Edition