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Patterns in Game Design provides professional and aspiring game designers with the tools they need to really understand how games are made. It provides designers with a method for discussing and understanding an essential part of game design: game play. Game play is critical to a game's success but has received little attention, because it varies from game to game and is difficult to understand. To facilitate the understanding of game play, this book provides a "language" to describe and discuss it - game design patterns. By providing a common set of concepts that can be used by all developers, every game project can be approached with standard tools. There are three main purposes for using the patterns: creation of game concepts, problem-solving during design, and analysis of games. Each pattern describes a part of the interaction possible in games, including a description of each pattern and how it relates to other patterns. In addition, designers learn about the choices that have to be made when using a pattern in their own designs. Although game designers do not directly design game play, by studying the various game design patterns provided throughout the book, they will gain a thorough understanding of what game play is and how to design better games.
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Staffan Bjork has a Ph.D. in Informatics from Goteborg University, Sweden. He has been the studio manager of the Play studio at the Interactive Institute in Sweden between 2001 and 2003 and currently works part time as senior researcher at Play and part time at Chalmers University of Technology. He has authored many articles about game development. Jussi Holopainen is a Research Scientist at Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. He is one of the founding members and the current (2003) treasurer of Digital Games Research Association (http://www digra.org). He is also a member of the steering board of Neogames, a Finnish game development and promotion organization.
Patterns in Game Design provides professional and aspiring game designers with the tools they need to really understand how games are made. It provides designers with a method for discussing and understanding an essential part of game design: game play. Game play is critical to a game's success but has received little attention, because it varies from game to game and is difficult to understand. To facilitate the understanding of game play, this book provides a "language" to describe and discuss it - game design patterns. By providing a common set of concepts that can be used by all developers, every game project can be approached with standard tools. There are three main purposes for using the patterns: creation of game concepts, problem-solving during design, and analysis of games. Each pattern describes a part of the interaction possible in games, including a description of each pattern and how it relates to other patterns. In addition, designers learn about the choices that have to be made when using a pattern in their own designs. Although game designers do not directly design game play, by studying the various game design patterns provided throughout the book, they will gain a thorough understanding of what game play is and how to design better games.
About the Author
Staffan Bjork has a Ph.D. in Informatics from Goteborg University, Sweden. He has been the studio manager of the Play studio at the Interactive Institute in Sweden between 2001 and 2003 and currently works part time as senior researcher at Play and part time at Chalmers University of Technology. He has authored many articles about game development. Jussi Holopainen is a Research Scientist at Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. He is one of the founding members and the current (2003) treasurer of Digital Games Research Association (http://www digra.org). He is also a member of the steering board of Neogames, a Finnish game development and promotion organization.
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