Game Design Bundle
- 1st Edition - November 20, 2008
- Latest edition
- Authors: Tracy Fullerton, Katherine Isbister
- Language: English
Two definitive reference books on the theory of classic and contemporary game design for aspiring and professional game designers to return to again and again – no programming or… Read more
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Two definitive reference books on the theory of classic and contemporary game design for aspiring and professional game designers to return to again and again – no programming or artwork skills required!
Game Design Workshop provides a step-by-step introduction to the art of designing, prototyping and playtesting innovative games that has been proven to help beginners and professionals alike.
Better Game Characters by Design gives game design professionals and other interactive media designers a framework for understanding how social roles and perceptions affect players' reactions to characters, helping produce stronger designs and better results.
Bundled together for the first time - helping you get ahead in game design as cheaply and easily as possible.
Game Design Workshop provides a step-by-step introduction to the art of designing, prototyping and playtesting innovative games that has been proven to help beginners and professionals alike.
Better Game Characters by Design gives game design professionals and other interactive media designers a framework for understanding how social roles and perceptions affect players' reactions to characters, helping produce stronger designs and better results.
Bundled together for the first time - helping you get ahead in game design as cheaply and easily as possible.
Game designers, programmers, art directors, and sound designers, and HCI professionals. Students will learn how to design effective interactive characters and gain an understanding of social roles and perceptions that can apply.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 20, 2008
- Language: English
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Tracy Fullerton
Tracy Fullerton, M.F.A., is a game designer, educator and writer with fifteen years of professional experience. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinema-Television where she serves as Co-Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab. Recent credits include faculty advisor for the award-winning student game Cloud, and game designer for The Night Journey a unique game/art project with media artist Bill Viola.
Prior to joining the USC faculty, she was president and founder of the interactive television game developer, Spiderdance, Inc. Spiderdance’s games included NBC’s Weakest Link, MTV’s webRIOT, The WB’s No Boundaries, History Channel’s History IQ, Sony Game Show Network’s Inquizition and TBS’s Cyber Bond. Before starting Spiderdance, Tracy was a founding member of the New York design firm R/GA Interactive. As a producer and creative director she created games and interactive products for clients including Sony, Intel, Microsoft, AdAge, Ticketmaster, Compaq, and Warner Bros. among many others.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, USC School of Cinema-Television, Co-Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab, Los Angeles, CA, USAKI
Katherine Isbister
Associate Professor, Department of Language, Literature and Communication, RPI; Director of the Games Research Lab, RPI; Chair of the MS in HCI Program, RPI. Katherine is Director of the Games Research Lab at Rensselaer (RPI), where she has worked to build an undergraduate major in game design, as well as a robust program of games-related research. She is also the Chair of the MS in HCI at RPI, which she helped to redesign to address current challenges facing HCI practitioners, such as the design of games and other social and leisure applications. Katherine is a former MK Game author, having written: Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach, which was nominated for a Game Developer Magazine Front Line award in 2006. She has published work in a wide variety of venues, and has given invited talks at research and academic venues including Sony research labs in Japan, Banff Centre in Canada, IBM, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and others. The Games Research Lab at RPI has cutting-edge facilities for user studies, and Isbister has used the lab to research innovative methods in user testing (e.g. the Sensual Evaluation Instrument - a project nominated for Best Paper award at the CHI conference in 2006).
Isbister has worked in both research and commercial settings on HCI and usability aspects of games and other products. This background, combined with strong connections to game industry practitioners, makes her well suited to put together an edited volume on games usability that is both rigorous and useful to developers in their everyday work.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Language, Literature and Communication, RPI; Director of the Games Research Lab, RPI; Chair of the MS in HCI Program, RPI