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Chris Crawford on Game Design
| Title | Chris Crawford on Game Design |
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| Date | 2025-05-28 10:38:33 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Chris Crawford on Game Design is all about the foundational skills behind the design and architecture of a game. Without these skills, designers and developers lack the understanding to work with the tools and techniques used in the industry today. Chris Crawford, the most highly sought after expert in this area, brings an intense opinion piece full of personality and flare like no other person in this industry can. He explains the foundational and fundamental concepts needed to get the most out of game development today. An exceptional precursor to the two books soon to be published by New Riders with author Andrew Rollings, this book teaches key lessons; including, what you can learn from the history of game play and historical games, necessity of challenge in game play, applying dimensions of conflict, understanding low and high interactivity designs, watching for the inclusion of creativity, and understanding the importance of storytelling. In addition, Chris brings you the wish list of games he'd like to build and tells you how to do it. Game developers and designers will kill for this information! Read more
Review
Chris Crawford set the standard and keeps the bar high for game designers from when he started as a teen in the late 70's/early 80s. This book talks about the thought process in designing games, not just the mechanics of the design itself. He explores the drives of players and what you as a designer need to think about to tap into that and make your players enjoy themselves and want to keep playing your game. High scores are one thing, but Mr Crawford wants to go beyond those simple goals. He also presses onto the reader that there is more to games than just shoot-em-ups or platformers. There are all kind of things in the human experience that can be adapted into fun gameplay. He includes some anecdotes about his early years as a designer that are great if you know of him from his early Atari days. Great stuff. Buy this.
