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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne (1 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0072228997
  • ISBN-13: 978-0072228991
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Build games with techniques and insights from a pro. Author and game developer Tom Meigs shows you the finer points of world building and behavior scripting. Learn about level stubbing, lighting, prop and item placement, camera tricks, particle and effects systems, communication loops, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, and much more.

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·MEGA-Tips in each chapter: specialized, hands-on techniques designers can employ which are directly related to the chapter's topic
·'Behind the Scenes' appear in every chapter, where key game industry gurus from Sony, Disney, Activision, Blizzard, LucasArts, 3DO share their expertise on a given topic and explain how they did cool things through a Q & A with our author.·Value! Every technique in the book can be done using free tools, including Python and J2ME, rather than expensive proprietary modeling tools.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and solid book on building levels and games, 19 May 2004
By Marque Pierre Sondergaard "World's Best Textu... (Liverpool, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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"Ultimate Games Design" There seems to be no shortage of games design books, and they all claim to be the ultimate. All of them wants to deal primarily with the big fluffy ideas of the lead design - the overall idea of the game and so forth. Few of them has anything to say about the actual execution in terms of level design for example.

Untill now. Despite hating the title (and the colour scheme) of this book, I have to bow to the ultimate thing. This is as good a good as you will get right now about actually building game worlds - the level designs, the modelling, the texturing, the lighting and so forth. It also has one of the mandatory chapters on getting into the industry, where Tom Meigs goes beyond the usual war stories from the pros and repetitive listing of roles in the games industry, to actually offer the reader a good ammount of introspective questions to ponder and sage advice to gear up for the bumpy ride ahead.

So from hating it, this book has become one of my absolute favourites on games design. Well done Tom Meigs, whoever you are!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate waste of time?, 2 Jun 2004
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Ambiguous content with statements such as light can be very useful... AND! This book is of no value to any one who is remotely interested in greating/building actual game worlds. You would be better off giving the book a miss and check the forums out on the internet. I am gutted that I made the mistake of reading and believing the comments made on the books contents which now seems obvious these were placed by the authors friends and relatives. It's a pity Amazon do not accept returns! As such the book is destined for the bin.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Some good advice, 7 Jul 2009
By Ben Nash "aspiring game designer" (Hampshire) - See all my reviews
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This book is average. A good introduction but far to much repetition. Covers mainly the business side of things and routes in to the industry. This book is written as an essay on game design and wont teach you much about designing games.
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