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Are you looking for practical, ready-to-use ideas to help you design more innovative and unique video games? "David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox" is a brainstorming and strategy guide for game designers, filled with inspiration-generating tips that challenge you to create better games. Using their years of industry experience, David Perry and Rusel DeMaria provide a wealth of ideas and possibilities to help you improve the entertainment value, quality, and success of your games. Designed to be used as a reference guide and brainstorming tool, the book is not software or technology specific, and it covers every aspect of video game design, including game types, storyline creation, character development, weapons and armor, game worlds, goals and rewards, obstacles, and more. You can work your way through the book from the beginning or focus on the topics that interest you. Filled with checklists and step-by-step brainstorming tools to help you flesh out your ideas, "David Perry on Game Design" will inspire and challenge you to find inventive solutions and improve the entertainment value of your games, making them fresh, innovative, and fun to play.

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David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming ToolBox
  • Paperback: 10 pages
  • Publisher: Charles River Media; 2009-03-24
  • Label: Charles River Media
  • Studio: Charles River Media
  • ISBN: 1584506687
  • Sales Rank in Books: #28285

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Reference Guide, December 21, 2009
This review is from: David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming ToolBox (Paperback)
What an incredible book! Seriously for the price you can't beat it. It touches on some game design principles, but that's not where this book really stands out. It stands out as a designer or writer's best friend when it comes to world building and creating characters. Need to know about modern weapons for that war game you're making? Easy, there's a section for that. Having trouble on deciding what archetype the villain in your story should be? No problem, there's a section for that too. It seriously goes on and on, but in this case it's a great thing. Take a look at the sample up above and you'll see how detailed this book really is. Detailed but not overbearing. It's very easy to understand and read.

It's one of those tools that you'll keep near your desk as it's very easy to search through and help educate you on certain aspects of your story that you don't know. I honestly have no idea how the author found the time to putt all these reference...Read more
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, June 4, 2009
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The book was pretty good I would have liked to see more on game balancing. The book has a lot about story background, characters, list and lists of names of things, great exercises but I was interested in know things like how to created an interesting level through game play as well as story, and how to keep game rules simple to learn hard to master. Overall good book but is focused more on story telling than game design.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for game designers., June 3, 2009
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This is an excellent book on game design. You can tell the author has a lot of industry experience and a passion for game design. This book is massive and well worth the price. It covers just about every genre of video games and includes many examples to help you through the design process. What really makes this book stand out from the others dealing with this same topic, is that it goes into an explanation as to why you should do something and then gives you plenty of examples to work with. I suggest that everyone who is interested in game design check this book out.
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