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- Book Title
- Honoring the Code : Conversations With Great Game Designers
- ISBN
- 9781466567535
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Honoring the Code : Conversations with Great Game Designers
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publisher
- A + K Peter's, The Limited
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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If you want to be successful in any area of game development¿game design, programming, graphics, sound, or publishing¿you should know how standouts in the industry approach their work and address problems. In Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers, 16 groundbreaking game developers share their stories and offer advice for anyone aspiring to a career in the games industry. You¿ll learn from their triumphs and failures and see how they dealt with sweeping changes in technology, including critical paradigm shifts from CD-ROMs and 3D graphic cards to the Internet and mobile revolution. The book presents in-depth interviews with a diverse mix of game professionals, emphasizing the makers of adventure games, role-playing games, and real-time strategies. It focuses on developers who have contributed to multiple eras or genres as well as those who have hired, taught, or mentored newcomers. Since the mobile revolution has opened up new demographics and new gameplay mechanics, the book features current developers of games for mobile devices. It also explores how indie game developers are making commercial-quality games with a small team mostly using free tools and funded with crowdsourcing applications. While there are plenty of resources available for aspiring game developers to learn the necessary technical skills, there is hardly any historical material on the culture that made the games industry possible. Filling the void, this book provides a historical and cultural context for the games industry. It takes you into the minds of the pioneers who blazed the trails and established the industry as we know it today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
A + K Peter's, The Limited
ISBN-10
1466567538
ISBN-13
9781466567535
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117279980
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Honoring the Code : Conversations with Great Game Designers
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv1469.3
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"Fans of classic games will appreciate the insider stories and explanations of the reasoning behind particular choices in game play and development. Students of game history will benefit from the detailed look at specific moments in the development of many significant games. The author is obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about games and communicates that clearly throughout the text. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Students of all levels in game design programs; general readers." --E. Bertozzi, Long Island University, in CHOICE "... a pick for any computer science collection strong in game development and here provides the insights and experiences of sixteen groundbreaking game developers who share their stories and experiences. From their successes and failures to the evolving gaming industry, this provides in-depth interviews that emphasize the creators of adventure and role-playing games and real-time strategies. Interview questions are specific and lend to in-depth and unique answers ... From games designers play to insights on audiences, markets, and more, this is a fine pick for any game designer and computer collections catering to them." --California Bookwatch, November 2013 cific and lend to in-depth and unique answers ... From games designers play to insights on audiences, markets, and more, this is a fine pick for any game designer and computer collections catering to them." --California Bookwatch, November 2013, "Fans of classic games will appreciate the insider stories and explanations of the reasoning behind particular choices in game play and development. Students of game history will benefit from the detailed look at specific moments in the development of many significant games. The author is obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about games and communicates that clearly throughout the text. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Students of all levels in game design programs; general readers." --E. Bertozzi, Long Island University, in CHOICE, "Fans of classic games will appreciate the insider stories and explanations of the reasoning behind particular choices in game play and development. Students of game history will benefit from the detailed look at specific moments in the development of many significant games. The author is obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about games and communicates that clearly throughout the text. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Students of all levels in game design programs; general readers." --E. Bertozzi, Long Island University, in CHOICE "... a pick for any computer science collection strong in game development and here provides the insights and experiences of sixteen groundbreaking game developers who share their stories and experiences. From their successes and failures to the evolving gaming industry, this provides in-depth interviews that emphasize the creators of adventure and role-playing games and real-time strategies. Interview questions are specific and lend to in-depth and unique answers ... From games designers play to insights on audiences, markets, and more, this is a fine pick for any game designer and computer collections catering to them." --California Bookwatch, November 2013
Table of Content
Honoring the Code John Romero, Architect of Doom Rebecca Heineman, Archmage Tim Cain, Game Designer X Brian Fargo, Patron of Wizards Chris Avellone, the Iconoclast Chris Taylor, the Problem Solver Howard Scott Warshaw, the Sad Clown Jon Hare, the Rock ¿n¿ Roller Ralph Baer, the Father of Videogames David Fox, the Mindbender George Sanger, "the Fat Man" Mark Soderwall, Mentor to Graphic Artists Megan Gaiser and Rob Riedl, Gamemakers for Girls Paul Reiche and Fred Ford, the Toymakers of Gaming Index
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Programming / Games, Computer Graphics
Lccn
2012-050924
Dewey Decimal
794.80922
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers
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