Notebook Of New Video Game Ideas: Book Three


Book Description

Containing 350 ideas… Great, free, and anonymous help for a game maker. “It’s a secret to everyone,” in this public domain book. As far as is known these are never before used ideas. Nothing was added without it feeling worthy of being included. There is no filler here. No space was taken for granted. These ideas are not so synopsis based than they are element based. In other words they are more “ideas within a game” than they are “ideas for a game.” This book is sure to be a great help for any who use it and take it as being unconditionally free.




Notebook of New Video Game Ideas: Book Eight


Book Description

This is a handwritten notebook containing over 300 ideas to use in any new video game. This is a free to use public domain book. These are no cost ideas that may be used with or without credit. “It’s a secret to everybody.” If an idea was considered unworthy to include it was not written in. If it was thought likely to have been used before it was not included. Where drawings were necessary to better describe an idea they were placed in. Like all of my books this is a free eBook and in the public domain.




Game Ideas Journal


Book Description

This handy notebook is perfect for game developers to quickly jot down ideas for video games . If you're an game Developer or game designer, chances are that you're constantly coming up with ideas for cool and interesting games to make. This journal allows you to quickly record and keep track of them for brainstorming purposes, or for future use. Would make a perfect gift for anyone interested in game design or becoming a game developer. Each page has a space at the top for writing the title or name of the game idea, a space for filling in how long you estimate that the project would take and a space for the game's "elevator pitch". (a sentence or two that explains your game) as well as a game developing progress to keep traking your level of progress . The rest of each page is simply filled with blank lines to write whatever you want about the game idea.




Lucifer's Notebook: Part Three


Book Description

A handwritten book with everything scanned in. It gave me the liberty to better express myself with things like music, symbols, and art. This book is about Satanism, Christian Satanism, funny things, and ideas, but also has many singular things like a Satanic font and a concept for a new video game controller. It has prayers inside such as one for Lilith and one for Samael. There is a lot of art in it, some Satanist and Christian Satanist philosophy, dreams of mine like what a perfect palace would be like and what a perfect ring would be for me. It also contains an illustrated idea for a “magic calculator.” That is, you input things like an element, numerology, the date, something’s color, and can auto generate tarot cards (by name.) Most of the pages are completely different from the others- there is a lot here.




Notebook of New Video Game Ideas: Book Six


Book Description

This book is filled with 300 ideas for any new video game. These are ideas based on new elements, not stories or settings and are definitely not synopsis based. For example these are ideas for things like new power ups, weapons, spells, special effects, and enemies, and not where the game takes place, character backgrounds, the plot, and such things. This is a handwritten book with drawings made in a personal notebook. These ideas are 100% free to use in this new public domain book.




The Gamer's Brain


Book Description

Making a successful video game is hard. Even games that are successful at launch may fail to engage and retain players in the long term due to issues with the user experience (UX) that they are delivering. The game user experience accounts for the whole experience players have with a video game, from first hearing about it to navigating menus and progressing in the game. UX as a discipline offers guidelines to assist developers in creating the experience they want to deliver, shipping higher quality games (whether it is an indie game, AAA game, or "serious game"), and meeting their business goals while staying true to their design and artistic intent. In a nutshell, UX is about understanding the gamer’s brain: understanding human capabilities and limitations to anticipate how a game will be perceived, the emotions it will elicit, how players will interact with it, and how engaging the experience will be. This book is designed to equip readers of all levels, from student to professional, with neuroscience knowledge and user experience guidelines and methodologies. These insights will help readers identify the ingredients for successful and engaging video games, empowering them to develop their own unique game recipe more efficiently, while providing a better experience for their audience. Key Features Provides an overview of how the brain learns and processes information by distilling research findings from cognitive science and psychology research in a very accessible way. Topics covered include: "neuromyths", perception, memory, attention, motivation, emotion, and learning. Includes numerous examples from released games of how scientific knowledge translates into game design, and how to use a UX framework in game development. Describes how UX can guide developers to improve the usability and the level of engagement a game provides to its target audience by using cognitive psychology knowledge, implementing human-computer interaction principles, and applying the scientific method (user research). Provides a practical definition of UX specifically applied to games, with a unique framework. Defines the most relevant pillars for good usability (ease of use) and good "engage-ability" (the ability of the game to be fun and engaging), translated into a practical checklist. Covers design thinking, game user research, game analytics, and UX strategy at both a project and studio level. Offers unique insights from a UX expert and PhD in psychology who has been working in the entertainment industry for over 10 years. This book is a practical tool that any professional game developer or student can use right away and includes the most complete overview of UX in games existing today.




Reamde


Book Description

“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” —Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace—not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton—once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high—and a new world—for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.




Rules of Play


Book Description

An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.




Notebook of New Video Game Ideas: Book Five


Book Description

Here is a book with more than 300 new ideas to place into any new video game.. Good ideas, the best that could be made. They are not synopsis based but rather element based. Best of all, this is a free-use public domain book. It can be shared, published, duplicated, and freely used by anyone. “It’s a secret to everyone.”




The Art of Game Design


Book Description

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible, and award-winning author Jesse Schell presents over 100 sets of questions to ask yourself as you build, play and change your game until you finalise your design. This latest third edition includes examples from new VR and AR platforms as well as from modern games such as Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us, Free to Play games, hybrid games, transformational games, and more. Whatever your role in video game development an understanding of the principles of game design will make you better at what you do. For over 10 years this book has provided inspiration and guidance to budding and experienced game designers - helping to make better games faster.