Punk Playthings: Provocations for 21st Century Game Makers

ISBN-13: 9781498770224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 262 str.

Sean Taylor;Chris Lowthorpe

Opis

This book explores the theory and practice of game design and development as a wider, culturally disruptive medium. It outlines how changing audiences, digital distribution, and new business models are disrupting independent game development and forcing many developers to reexamine existing design and development processes. Using practical case studies and empirical experience the core aim of the book is to empower game studios, from start-ups to established companies, to create a sustainable, repeatable, and scalable design and development process maximizes the chances of success in the marketplace which can construct entertaining, simultaneous, persistent social virtual worlds for gamers.

Spis treści

Introduction. Ideals over Ideas. Practice Makes the Plan. Remodel the Plan. New Methodologies. New Opportunities. The Art of Design.

O autorze

Dr Chris Lowthorpe is an award-winning game educator and playful provocateur. He earned his doctorate at the University of Abertay, Dundee – currently Europe's top game school – where he also won the 2014 Innovation in Teaching Award and mentored some of the brightest talents in UK games.

Sean Taylor is an award-winning video game producer with 20 years experience in the field. In 1996, Sean dropped out of college to join the organized chaos of DMA Design - midway through the production of the original Grand Theft Auto - and has been thinking differently about game making ever since.