The item you selected is unavailable, but we found something similar.

Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology, Hardcover by Mcguire, Mo... - Picture 1 of 1

Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology by Odest Chadwicke Jenkins and Morgan McGuire (2008, Hardcover)

Be the first towrite a review.

Great Book Prices Store (301780)
96.8% positive feedback

Price:

$111.42

Free shipping

Estimated delivery Wed, May 22 - Mon, Jun 3

Returns:

14 days returns. Buyer pays for return shipping.

Condition:

Brand New

Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology, Hardcover by Mcguire, Morgan; Jenkins, Odest Chadwicke, ISBN 1568813058, ISBN-13 9781568813059, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book is a comprehensive overview of the technology and mechanisms of game design. It emphasizes the broad view of a game team and teaches you enough about your teammates’ area so that you can work effectively with them. It includes many worksheets and exercises to help get your small indie team off the ground. By the end of th, you’ll have a game.

About this product

Product Information

Creating Games offers a comprehensive overview of the technology, content, and mechanics of game design. It emphasizes the broad view of a games team and teaches you enough about your teammates' areas so that you can work effectively with them. The authors have included many worksheets and exercises to help get your small indie team off the ground. Special features: Exercises at the end of each chapter combine comprehension tests with problems that help the reader interact with the material Worksheet exercises provide creative activities to help project teams generate new ideas and then structure them in a modified version of the format of a game industry design document Pointers to the best resources for digging deeper into each specialized area of game development Website with worksheets, figures from the book, and teacher materials including study guides, lecture presentations, syllabi, supplemental exercises, and assessment materials

Product Identifiers

Publisher
A + K Peter's, The Limited
ISBN-10
1568813058
ISBN-13
9781568813059
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65666722

Product Key Features

Author
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Morgan Mcguire
Publication Name
Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
500 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
7.7in
Item Weight
37.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qa76.76.C672m388
Reviews
Williams College Professor Morgan McGuire takes his games very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that he has written a book about it. ... While teaching his game design class, McGuire couldn't find a book that covered this, so he called up his colleague Professor Chad Jenkins at Brown, and they co-wrote the book to help other people design games. It combines scientific theories about rule systems with more practical advice about the process of designing a game. -- L452The Berkshire Eagle , November 2008 Apply Game Design as a Science for Public Policy to Rescue Economy, Planet: They are all subject to analysis as games: scenarios where intelligent agents (players) seek to maximize their payoff (win) under a set of rules. Although some seem like fun and others like work, an understanding of each instance informs the others, and insights for any improve how we both work and play. -- Morgan McGuire, Infinite Connection, April 2009 The writing is friendly and just casual enough that the authors' personalities come through. The book is engaging, clear, and well focused. The text combines a general survey of each topic with occasional asides offering specific and well-chosen detail. This combination gives the book a sense of confident authority. . . .This ambitious, wide-ranging book succeeds in giving its readers a broad overview of many topics that contribute to contemporary video game design. For someone who has never worked in the field, this book will give a general understanding of how a game is designed, the working of a modern studio, the roles of different departments and the people in them, the tools they use, and the technical issues that are important to them. The exercises at the end of each chapter enhance the book's value as a course textbook. With its wealth of information on many subjects important to game design, the book would serve well as an introductory text for a student considering a career as a game designer. -- Andrew Glassner, SIAM, January 2010
Table of Content
Contents Preface Minigame Design Exercise Design Internal Playtest Revision Kleenex(tm) Playtest Discussion 20-Minute Variation Exploration The Process of Development and Theory of Design What Is a Game? Levels of Abstraction Emergence and Progression Development Roles Design as Theory Industry Structure Exercises Resources Managing Innovation How Hard Can It Be? Attitude Organization Chart Consistency Inspiration Brainstorming Scheduling Managing Risk Exercises Resources Critique and Proposal Critique Generating Ideas Format Examples Exercises Resources The Design Document Title Page Executive Summary Overview Related Games Player Composites World Characters Plot Graphs Art Direction User Interface Storyboards Tags and Dialogue Technology Plan Software Architecture Controls Level Design Mechanics Analysis Schedule and Related Elements Budget Change Log Exercises Resources Game Technology Document Tools Asset Management Tools Art Tools Runtime Technology for Video Games Licensing Exercises Strategic Thought State Graphs State Machine Decision Trees Algorithms Search Complexity Heuristics Game Theory Exercises Choice and Probability Statistics and Probability Random Variables Generating Random Numbers Cards and Dice Outcome Tree Combining Probabilities Expected Value Variance Compound Expressions Case Study: Settlers of Catan Exercises Resources Balance Our Methodology Before Balance Fairness Stability Engagement The Role of Randomness What Players Value Optimizing for Real People Exercises Resources Mechanics Techniques for the First Move Character Building Action Lock-and-Key Geometry Superunit Rock-Paper-Scissors Combat Simulation Effect Distance Rush Prevention Dialogue Trees Economy Ensuring Entropy Reward Cycles and Minigames Resources Creating a World Setting Motivations for Setting Characters and Plot Geography Exercises Resources Art Direction Visual Language Reference Art Concept Art 3D Art Roles 3D Modeling Triangle Mesh Particle System Texture Map Materials Exercises Resources Real-Time Rendering Graphics Processor (GPU) Lighting Exercises Resources Physical Simulation Newtonian Mechanics Newton''s Laws of Motion for a Particle Solving Equations of Motion Verlet Integration Rigid Body Dynamics Collision Detection, Response, and Friction Constraints and Articulated Bodies Articulated Kinematics and Motion Control Particle Systems and Natural Phenomena Resources Exercises Network Programming An Extended Analogy Protocols Ethernet Routing Transmission Protocols Network Address Translation (NAT) Lag Synchronization and Topology Matchmaking Security APIs Exercises Resources User Input Touch-Based Input Optical Character Recognition Mice Inertial-Based Input and Global Positioning Light and Positional Guns Sound-Based Input Camera-Based Input Exercises Artificial Intelligence What Is AI? How Smart Does My AI Really Need to Be? Embodied Autonomous Agents Decision Making: Reaction and Deliberation Learning Exercises Resources Social Issues Ratings and Content Industry Quality of Life Real and Virtual Economies Resources Appendices A. Minigame Worksheet B. Overview Worksheet C. Technology Plan Worksheet D. Budget Worksheet E. Schedule Worksheet F. The Games Canon Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Programming / Games, Game Theory
Lccn
2008-009564
Dewey Decimal
794.8/1536
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Mathematics

All listings for this product

item 1 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology - Hardcover - ACCEPTABLE
$12.33
Free shipping
item 2 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology - Hardcover - GOOD
$12.33
Free shipping
item 3 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content,..., Jenkins, Odest
$12.39
Free shipping
item 4 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology
$12.74
Free shipping
item 5 Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology by Morgan S. McGuire (2008,
$9.96
item 6 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology by McGuire, Morgan, Jenkins,
$21.60
Free shipping
item 7 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology by Morgan McGuire: Used
$29.33
Free shipping

See all 10

Best Selling in Textbooks

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Textbooks

Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5-TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022, Trade Paperback)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 7 product ratings
$12.20 New
$11.50 Used
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5-TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022, Trade Paperback)
4.6 out of 5 stars based on 15 product ratings
$35.70 New
$34.00 Used
Self Heal by Design : The Role of Micro-organisms for Health by Barbara O'Neill (2018, Trade Paperback)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 14 product ratings
$29.99 New
---- Used
Leadership : Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse (2021, Trade Paperback, Revised edition)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating
$19.98 New
$10.00 Used
Research Design : Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches by J. David Creswell and John W. Creswell (2022, Trade Paperback)
4.2 out of 5 stars based on 5 product ratings
$21.00 New
$18.00 Used
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : DSM-5-TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022, Hardcover)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 8 product ratings
$41.45 New
$38.99 Used
Designing Data-Intensive Applications : The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (2017, Trade Paperback)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 17 product ratings
$18.25 New
$15.86 Used

Save on Textbooks

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Textbooks

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5-TR Brand new
$32.00
Trending at $42.75
Designing Data-Intensive Applications : The Big Ideas Behind Reliable Brand New
$15.00
Trending at $18.95
International Building Code IBC 2021, Paperback International Code Council
$55.00
Trending at $66.98
International Residential Code for One and Two-Family Dwellings 2021 free ship
$58.00
Trending at $70.98
The Pragmatic Programmer : Your Journey to Mastery 20th Anniversary Edition
$25.00
Trending at $25.95
National Electrical Code (NEC) NFPA 70 2020 Edition Spiral USA STOCK
$33.90
Trending at $36.40

Shop by category

Picture 1 of 1

Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology by Odest Chadwicke Jenkins and Morgan McGuire (2008, Hardcover)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

All listings for this product

item 1 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology - Hardcover - ACCEPTABLE

item 2 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology - Hardcover - GOOD

item 3 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content,..., Jenkins, Odest

item 4 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology

item 5 Creating Games : Mechanics, Content, and Technology by Morgan S. McGuire (2008,

item 6 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology by McGuire, Morgan, Jenkins,

item 7 Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology by Morgan McGuire: Used

Best Selling in Textbooks

Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5-TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022, Trade Paperback)

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5-TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022, Trade Paperback)

Self Heal by Design : The Role of Micro-organisms for Health by Barbara O'Neill (2018, Trade Paperback)

Leadership : Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse (2021, Trade Paperback, Revised edition)

Research Design : Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches by J. David Creswell and John W. Creswell (2022, Trade Paperback)

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : DSM-5-TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022, Hardcover)

Designing Data-Intensive Applications : The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (2017, Trade Paperback)

Save on Textbooks

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5-TR Brand new

Designing Data-Intensive Applications : The Big Ideas Behind Reliable Brand New

International Building Code IBC 2021, Paperback International Code Council

International Residential Code for One and Two-Family Dwellings 2021 free ship

The Pragmatic Programmer : Your Journey to Mastery 20th Anniversary Edition

National Electrical Code (NEC) NFPA 70 2020 Edition Spiral USA STOCK

You may also like

Fiction Hardcover Jerry B. Jenkins & Books

Mechanics Hardcover Textbooks

Fiction Hardcover Jerry B. Jenkins & Books in English

Fiction Hardcover Jerry B. Jenkins & Books in Spanish

Fiction Hardcover Jerry B. Jenkins Illustrated Fiction & Books

Engineering & Technology Technology Hardcover Nonfiction Books