Publisher's Synopsis
- Exploring the essentials of game design and its emerging subdisciplines
- Asking the essential questions at the heart of all design
- Getting started with modern game system design tools, including the spreadsheets most professionals now use
- Creating systems and data from a blank page
- Populating and quantifying a world of data into a game
- Tuning and balancing game systems
- Testing game systems and data
- Leveraging communication, psychology, and rewards within your games
- Balancing game probability within systems