Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game with Unity and C#, 2nd edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (August 20, 2017) © 2018

  • Jeremy Gibson Bond

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ISBN-13: 9780134659886
Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game with Unity and C#
Published 2017
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Award-winning game designer and professor Jeremy Gibson Bond has spent the last decade teaching game design and working as an independent game developer. Over the years, his most successful students have always been those who effectively combined game design theory, concrete rapid-prototyping practices, and programming skills.

Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development is the first time that all three of these disciplines have been brought together into a single book. It is a distillation of everything that Gibson has learned teaching hundreds of game designers and developers in his years at the #1 university games program in North America. It fully integrates the disciplines of game design and computer programming and helps students master the crucial practice of iterative prototyping using Unity. As the top game engine for cross-platform game development, Unity allows readers to write a game once and deliver it to everything from Windows, OS X, and Linux applications to webpages and all of the most popular mobile platforms.

  • P1 Game Design and Paper Prototyping
  • 0 Introduction
  • 1 Thinking Like a Designer
  • 2 Game Analysis Lexicons
  • 3 The Layered Tetrad
  • 4 Acting Like a Designer
  • 5 Design Goals
  • 6 The Inscribed Layer
  • 7 The Dynamic Layer
  • 8 The Cultural Layer
  • 9 Paper Prototyping and Iteration
  • 10 Playtesting and Usability Testing
  • 11 Math & Game Balance
  • 12 Puzzle Design
  • 13 Guiding the Player
  • 14 The Digital Game Industry
  • 15 The Agile Development Prototyping Mentality
  • P2 Digital Prototyping
  • 16 Thinking in Digital Systems
  • 17 Introducing our Development Environment: Unity
  • 18 Introducing our Language: C#
  • 19 Your First Program: Hello World
  • 20 Debugging
  • 21 Variables and Components
  • 22 Boolean Operations and Conditionals
  • 23 Loops
  • 24 Lists and Arrays
  • 25 Functions and Parameters
  • 26 Classes
  • 27 Object-Oriented Thinking
  • P3 Game Prototype Examples and Tutorials
  • 28 Prototype 1: Apple Picker
  • 29 Prototype 2: Mission Demolition
  • 30 Prototype 3: Space SHMUP
  • 31 Prototype 4: Prospector Solitaire
  • 32 Prototype 5: Bartok
  • 33 Prototype 6: Word Game
  • 34 Prototype 7: QuickSnap
  • 35 Prototype 8: Omega Mage
  • P4 Appendices
  • 36 Standard Project Setup Procedure
  • 37 Useful Concepts Reference
  • 38 Online References

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