Video Game Level Design: How to Create Video Games with Emotion, Interaction, and Engagement - Hardcover

Michael Salmond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350099503 ISBN 13: 9781350099500

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

Level designers build worlds, set missions, and lay irresistible paths to make sure we keep playing their games late into the night. It's a hugely competitive field, requiring both technical and artistic skill. Bringing together interaction, usability and experience design, this book shows how design principles can be used to plan maps, encourage narrative interaction and build worlds. 22 illustrated interviews and case studies show how these principles translate to real-world best practices for triple-A games through to low-budget indies. Throughout the book you will be guided through two level designs: one for the traditional 2D space and one for the 3D space. Each chapter will build on the prototype, until by the end of the book you'll be able to devise, plan and build your own engaging and entertaining level design.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Salmond is the program coordinator for the Digital Media Design BA at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350099503
• ISBN 13: 9781350099500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240