Game Design Deep Dive: Real-Time Strategy - Softcover

Bycer, Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032756977 ISBN 13: 9781032756974

Publisher: CRC Press, 2024

Synopsis

Game Design Deep Dive: Real‑Time Strategy focuses on what was once one of the most popular genres in the world and the one that truly kicked off the rise of eSports. It has seen more fundamental changes as a genre than any other genre, and Game Design Critic Josh Bycer will talk about its history and where it stands today with regard to its relevancy in the market.

Key Features:

• Discusses balancing and designing asymmetrical features and units.
• Explores user interface (UI)/user experience (UX) design and building effective GUIs.
• Examines the differences between multiplayer and single‑player balancing and how to appeal to both audiences.
• Provides predictions on the next big trend for the genre.

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

This book focuses on what was once one of the most popular genres in the world and the one that truly kicked off the rise of esports. It has seen the most fundamental changes as a genre than anything else, and Game Design Critic Josh Bycer will talk about the history and where it stands today with regards to its relevancy in the market.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032756977
• ISBN 13: 9781032756974
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166