To help myself remember how I felt about various things that I finished
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Art of Game Design: a book of lenses
I guess I've finished this in two ways... I finished writing it, and I just finished reading it! I've never written a book before, and it is pretty exciting to see it in print (although, of course, now I find all the typos!)
In all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The cards will be ready in a week or two -- they are the really fun part... I can't wait!
Congratulations on this book - I don't have it yet but I ready through 20 or so pages randomly on Amazon and I'm getting it tonight... It's the only book on game design I ever looked at that made me feel like "OH MY GOD I NEED THIS BOOK" -- and the ideas of "lenses" is brilliant.
Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (www.etc.cmu.edu) since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pittsburgh’s largest videogame studio, Schell Games (www.schellgames.com), the author of The Art of Game Design: a book of lenses (www.artofgamedesign.com), and the former chairman of the International Game Developers Association (www.igda.org). In 2004, he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, he was the Creative Director of the Disney Virtual Reality Studio, where he spent seven years as designer, programmer and manager on several projects for Disney theme parks and Disney Online. Before that, he was a software engineer at IBM and Bell Communications Research, and a writer, director, performer, juggler, comedian, and circus artist for both Freihofer's Mime Circus and the Juggler's Guild. You can email him at jesse(at)schellgames.com.
Congratulations on this book - I don't have it yet but I ready through 20 or so pages randomly on Amazon and I'm getting it tonight... It's the only book on game design I ever looked at that made me feel like "OH MY GOD I NEED THIS BOOK" -- and the ideas of "lenses" is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI am so excited about this!!!