Inside Game Design - Softcover

Simons, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856695328 ISBN 13: 9781856695329

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Despite being the fastest growing form of popular culture ever, videogames are seldom engaged with as a serious media form. "Inside Game Design" remedies this by offering a unique insight into the leading designers in the world today, examining, in a series of in-depth interviews, their influences and the processes that translate their vision into functioning game.Including industry legends such as David Braben and Lorne Lanning and new entrants to the field like Relentless and Keita Takahashi, the interviews contain candid opinions and practical advice for students about how to enter the industry. Full of colour artwork, the book includes process sketches from the production period, shots from the finished games themselves (character and environmental), studio photographs and marketing artwork. There is a detailed glossary, bibliography and index.

About this title

About the Author

Iain Simons curates, talks and writes about videogames and videogame culture for a wide variety of institutions and publications, including The New Statesman, 360, Game Developer, Gamasutra and Next-Gen.biz. In July 2005 he instigated and directed the first videogame culture weekend at the National Film Theatre, London, and is currently creative director of the GameCity festival.

Edition details

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856695328
• ISBN 13: 9781856695329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160