Game Design Deep Dive: Trading and Collectible Card Games - Hardcover

Bycer, Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032370831 ISBN 13: 9781032370835

Publisher: CRC Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Game Design Deep Dive: Trading and Collectible Card Games, game design analyst Joshua Bycer is back to discuss the deck-building genre, from the original success of Magic: The Gathering to today’s market with online card games like Hearthstone and Gwent. The design and philosophy of deck builders and tabletop games can be and have been applied to many genres.

• Looks at the history of popular tabletop card games and collectible card games
• Discusses how to design and balance your game with low numbers
• Examines the application of card-based design in other genres

Perfect for students and designers to learn about designing deck builders and card-based games.

About this title

About the Author

Joshua Bycer is a Game Design Analyst with over a decade of experience writing for major sites, doing YouTube, and the author of the Game Design Deep Dive series. In that time through Game-Wisdom.com, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games.

From the Back Cover

In Game Design Deep Dive: Trading & Collectible Card Games, game design analyst Josh Bycer is back to discuss the deck building genre. Perfect for students and designers to learn about designing deck builders and card-based games.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032370831
• ISBN 13: 9781032370835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146