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Book Description
Games industry cult leader, Chris Crawford, shares insider design secrets he's learned over the last 25+ years.
A mastery of insider wisdom from THE games industry pioneer Chris Crawford, readers will walk away with tips and techniques they can immediately apply.
Not a programming book but instead the book a developer or designer needs before they start writing.
A revision to Chris Crawford's cult classic, "The Art of Computer Game Design." (McGraw Hill, 1981, 0078811171)

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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!

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   7 of 8 people found the following review helpful: Flawed, eccentric, valuable, 1 Aug 2003 By A Customer Crawford is a legendary game designer. His game Balance Of Power might have become a series to match Civilization if Crawford had been willing to concede more to the gameplayers need for eyecandy - and if Crawford wasn't so notoriosly difficult to work with. This book is the work of a genuinely committed, witty and talented man who probably isn't very good at listening to other people, but has a lot worth listening to to say. He's never trite, sometimes (I think) wrong but never a fool or writing just to fill space, and sometimes startlingly useful.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   interesting and funny info about game design, 20 Mar 2006 By  W. Baars "Wouter Baars" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews    This book is interesting. The writer clearly has been around in the game industry for a long time and he sure has a lot of good things to say. Some say that his tone is arrogant. Well I don't know, maybe so. But on the other hand, I thought if you don't take his tone too seriously, a lot of his stories are funny. The book is easy to read. Some of his advice to become a good gamedesigner is a bit over the top, such as: participate in some mildly dangerous activities such as skiing, or scuba diving or so. Another one is: get friends with people with a totaly diffrent attitude towards life, such as christian fundamentalists, jehova witness, or whatever. A problem with a lot of the younger gamedeveloppers is that in their designs they refer mostly to other games they play. If you want to become a good gamedesigner it is very good to learn a lot about human history, biology, architecture, art, literature, languages, etcetera. And this is something that a lot of gamedesigners wannabees do not study. You need a broad range of interests (beyond the computer) to become a good game designer. And it is welcome to have experience of life. But you don't need to have to do the tips Chris Crawford gives. Another small minor point is that the author seemes to have stuck at game design until Doom II. He does not have to say much about the more recent games. A lot of his insights of the older games ("the classics") are also usefull for the newest games though. Good book about game design! Wouter Baars  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   Pointless Ramble, 26 Oct 2007 By  M. Davies "zmaxz" (Barnstaple, UK) - See all my reviews    This book is one long yawn from start to finish. If this is one of the best books on the subject, I can't imagine how bad the worst could be. It seems Chris Crawford's heyday was in the early years of gaming and perhaps the industry has moved on. I would further add that the author seemed to believe that his readership would be men only. He's not alone in this attitude in game development but again, it's outdated.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 3 customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews