Game Design Development

UNLOCK YOUR GAME'S NARRATIVE POTENTIAL! With increasingly sophisticated video games being consumed by an enthusiastic and expanding audience, the pressure is on game developers like never before to deliver exciting stories and engaging characters. With Video Game Storytelling, game writer and...

Dive into the world of board game creation and bring your ideas to life, even if you've struggled with creativity in the past! Are you an aspiring game designer overwhelmed by where to start? Do you find yourself juggling numerous game ideas but struggle to form them into a cohesive, engaging experience? Have you already poured hours into an underperforming game, only to find it doesn't resonate with players?

A Step-by-Step Master Class in Indie Game Development, from the Creator of the Emmy® Winning Neverwinter Nights™ Honors for Don Daglow's From Dream to Delivery books: Winner, 2019 Independent Press Book Awards Winner, Kirkus Top 100 Indie Books of 2019 Finalist, 2020 Top Shelf Book Awards Finalist, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, Book Excellence Awards "Don Daglow has survived 40+ years creating games and always retained his positive attitude. Learn from the master." – Jeff Braun, ...

You want your games to be many things: creative. Innovative. Playable. Fun. If you're a designer, add "published" to that list. The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider's view on how to make a game that people will want to play again and again. Author Mike Selinker has invited some of the world's most talented and experienced game designers to share their secrets on game conception, design, development, and presentation. In these minutes, you'll learn about storyboarding, balancing, prototyping, and playtesting from the best in the business.

Game Worlds Unlocked: The Psychology of Play & Design 🎮 Unlock the psychological principles that make games addictive, immersive, and emotionally impactful. 🧠 Explore how player motivation, emotion, and behavior are shaped by thoughtful design choices. 🔍 Discover what keeps players engaged for hours, from challenge curves to flow states. 📖 Break down the elements of compelling narratives, branching choices, and meaningful consequences. 🤝 Understand the role of social dynamics, cooperation, and competition in multiplayer experiences. 💡 Perfect for game developers, UX ...

The book guides you through a step-by-step process of making a commercial game. It teaches you how to learn all the necessary skills and covers various aspects of game development: mindset, preproduction, funding, business, law, development, marketing, PR, publishing, distribution, as well as pre-launch, launch, and post-launch strategies.

Unlock the secrets of addictive game design with "Level Up Addiction: Crafting Irresistible Game Loops." This comprehensive guide explores the art of creating captivating game loops that keep players coming back for more. Our book takes you behind the scenes of successful video games, unraveling the psychological tricks and techniques that make players click 'continue.' From the perfect reward systems to the most engaging progression mechanics, 'Level Up Addiction' is your blueprint to crafting immersive gaming experiences. 🔸 Discover the science behind player motivation and engagement. ...

From living in an office and selling his apartment to leading $1M+/month games—this is the unfiltered playbook for product managers who want to win. Game development isn't just about ideas and creativity. It's about survival. It's about turning your vision into a product that retains, monetizes, and scales—without burning out your team or going broke. The Game Product Management Handbook gives you the real-world systems, mental models, and growth frameworks used inside studios that ship and scale. No fluff. No theory. Just tactics forged through 16 years of painful pivots, missed ...

Immerse yourself into the world of indie game development with our new eBook, "Indie Game Development"! Explore a complete universe brimming with potential, from the inception of ideas to the final satisfactory moment of launching your own game. In the insightful first chapter, learn about this exciting realm, where storytelling and design unite, flourishing into an immersive player experience. Discover the importance of indie games and the freedom they provide to their creators. Navigate through the endless possibilities and challenges that await in this artistic and innovative digital ...

Making a game is exciting. Finishing one is a miracle. The Indie Dev Survival Guide is the brutally honest, deeply practical handbook every solo developer and small team needs. Whether you’re building your first prototype or preparing your Steam launch, this book cuts through industry myths, bad advice, and overwhelm to show you exactly how to survive—and thrive—as an indie developer. You’ll learn how to shape ideas that actually ship, prototype smarter, avoid scope creep, build sustainable habits, manage production without burning out, and market your game without losing your ...

From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's...

Your guide to being a better Game Designer! (or to become one) This book is for game designers of all experience levels and also for the teams, developers, and support staff they work with. It showcases the reality of what game designers actually do (or should be doing) and sheds light on some widespread misconceptions of the job. This is an easy-to-read, practical guide for the following people: Game Designers: Understand what Game Designers really own and the skills required to be successful. Anyone can design games but not everyone is a Game Designer. What distinguishes those two is the ...

Read by the author. Gain access to the ultimate playbook to help you win at your financial game. Money is a game of survival, and you can’t get ahead with the outdated playbook of the American Dream. Don’t let rising debt, stagnant wages, and increased inflation make it impossible to create...

Early and social interaction skills are essential for every child to get the best start in life. Skills like language, eye contact, and self-regulation are just some of the things your child needs in order to excel - personally and academically! Since the pandemic, both parents and teachers are becoming more concerned about children’s abilities to interact. On top of that, there are delays in referrals to specialists. As early interaction is so important, you are probably thinking that you don’t have the qualifications to make a difference. This is not true!

Take a deep dive into the exciting world of mobile game development with "Game Changers," your comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to break into the thriving mobile gaming industry. Chapter one sets the stage with an in-depth examination of the mobile app game industry's evolution, giving you an understanding of past trends and insights into future directions. From there, you embark on a guided tour of the industry's inner workings. With an introduction to game development's stages, the necessary skills for game developers, and essential tools and software, so you can hit the...

The books in this series have been written because Greg Olney cares about the Commitment to Change that comes about in each person and the failure that might get in the way of great change. Negative results may not happen right away. It may take years as the body builds up a resistance to the harmful effects of the poison we put into our system. Businesses and families work the same way. We put up with pain because we’re afraid of the alternative. Instead of kindly addressing issues, we wait for arguments to boil over when it’s harder to exercise self-control.

Game Drama: Retro Consoles, Games & The People Who Made Them Matter is a deep, narrative-driven exploration of the era when video games stopped being simple entertainment and started becoming cultural milestones. This book is not a surface-level nostalgia trip. It is a carefully researched, thoughtfully written examination of the games, systems, and creators that reshaped how an entire generation experienced interactive media. Spanning iconic hardware like the Super Nintendo and the original PlayStation, landmark titles such as Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 4, Silent ...

“If I had 1 hour to solve a problem […] I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.” — Albert Einstein In Winning the Game with UX Design & CRO, Author and website design authority Alexander Rådahl Benz draws on years of experience in high-end website development to offer you time-tested methods that any website developer can use to optimize your website’s user experience, in order to significantly improve conversion rate, click-through percentages and customer ...

Transform Your Stories. Transform Your Audience. What if your stories could do more than entertain? What if they could immerse, captivate, and inspire profound transformation? Transcending Narratives invites you to explore the powerful intersection of hypnotic techniques and storytelling, crafting performances that resonate across the senses and deeply engage the subconscious. Built on a year of dynamic exploration and insights from leading a hypnotic writers’ group, this guide provides step-by-step strategies to turn linear handwritten narratives into immersive multimodal performances. ...

Wargame Developments was the brainchild of the late Dr Paddy Griffith. He was the driving force behind its creation and since its founding in 1980, the organisation has been a been a means by which wargame designers from across the globe have been able to meet, exchange ideas, and test each other’s designs. It holds an annual three-day conference (The Conference of Wargamers or COW) as well as virtual events (Virtual COW or VCOW) and publishes a journal nine times each year. This is the third edition of the Wargame Developments Handbook, and it is intended to: a) provides an introduction ...