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Level up! the Guide to Great Video Game Design by Publication Date: 2024, Third EditionNewly expanded to teach you how to develop marketable ideas, learn what perils and pitfalls await during a game's pre-production, production and post-production stages, and provide even more creative ideas to serve as fuel for your own projects
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Exploring Game Mechanics: Principles and Techniques to Make Fun, Engaging Games by Publication Date: 2022eBook
Practical Game Design by Publication Date: 2023 Second Edition
The Composition of Video Games: Narrative, Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Play by Publication Date: 2019eBook
Introduction to Game Systems Design by Call Number: Fennell STACKS GV1469.15 .G43 2022Publication Date: 2021
The Design of Everyday Things by Call Number: Fennell STACKS TS171.4 .N67 2013Publication Date: 2013
The Art of Game Design by Call Number: Fennell STACKS QA76.76.C672 .S34 2015Publication Date: 2014 Second EditionThird edition available as an eBook
Game Design Workshop: a Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games by Call Number: Fennell STACKS QA76.76 .C672 F8 2019Publication Date: 2018
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Call Number: Fennell STACKS QA76.76 .C672 S25 2004Publication Date: 2004
Architectural Approach to Level Design by Call Number: Fennell STACKS QA76.76.C672 T679 2019Publication Date: 2019 Second Edition
- Game Design Foundations: 1 Ideas, Core Loops, and Goals (Video Duration 1 hour 32 minutes)
Learn strategies for starting a career in game design, drafting game ideas, and fleshing out concepts into designs. Take the whole course or view individual modules. - The Easiest Game Design Exercise in the World (Video Duration 6 minutes 32 seconds)Part of Game Design Foundations: 1 Ideas, Core Loops, and Goals
- Game Design Foundations: 2 Systems, Chance, and Strategy (Video Duration 1 hour 31 minutes)A detailed look at game systems, chance in games, and strategy in games. Take the whole course or view individual modules.
- What is Design Thinking? (Video Duration 33 minutes)Learn how to take a human-centered approach to design by exploring the methodology known as design thinking.