TY - BOOK ID - 137652979 TI - Tabletop game design for video game designers PY - 2016 SN - 9780415627016 041562701X PB - Burlington, Massachusetts Focal Press, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Computer games KW - Computer games KW - Storyboards KW - Programming KW - Design UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137652979 AB - "Do you aspire to be a game designer but aren’t sure where to begin? Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers guides you through your initial attempts to design game mechanics. It goes beyond simple description and definition to explore in detail the issues that designers grapple with for every game they create.Learning to design tabletop games builds a solid foundation for game designers and provides methods that can be applied towards creating paper prototypes of computer-targeted games. Presented in a step-by-step format, Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers helps the reader understand how the game design skills that are acquired through creating tabletop games can be used when designing video games. Fully playable games accompany every topic so you can truly understand and experience each component that goes into game creation."-- ER -