Level Design - Hardcover

Totten, Christopher W.

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9781138628809: Level Design
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138628808 ISBN 13: 9781138628809
Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2017

Synopsis

In this book, veteran game developers, academics, journalists, and others provide their processes and experiences with level design. Each provides a unique perspective representing multiple steps of the process for interacting with and creating game levels – experiencing levels, designing levels, constructing levels, and testing levels. These diverse perspectives offer readers a window into the thought processes that result in memorable open game worlds, chilling horror environments, computer-generated levels, evocative soundscapes, and many other types of gamespaces. This collection invites readers into the minds of professional designers as they work and provides evergreen topics on level design and game criticism to inspire both new and veteran designers.

Key Features:

  • Learn about the processes of experienced developers and level designers in their own words

  • Discover best-practices for creating levels for persuasive play and designing collaboratively

  • Offers analysis methods for better understanding game worlds and how they function in response to gameplay

  • Find your own preferred method of level design by learning the processes of multiple industry veterans

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About the Author

Christopher Totten is the Game Artist in Residence at American University and the founder of independent developer Pie for Breakfast Studios. He is also the founder of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Indie Arcade and an advocate for bringing games to museums and cultural institutions. Totten is an active writer in the game industry, with articles featured in industry journals, chapters in several academic publications, and two books: Game Character Creation in Blender and Unity (Wiley 2012) and An Architectural Approach to Level Design (CRC, 2014.) He has also spoken at GDC China, Foundations Of Digital Games (FDG), East Coast Game Conference, Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) conference, and Games For Change. He has displayed his games at MAGFest, The Smithsonian Innovation in Art event, and Baltimore Artscape, and Blank Arcade. He has a Masters Degree in Architecture from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

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Publisher
A K Peters/CRC Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138628808
ISBN 13 
9781138628809
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
408
Rating
  • 3.92 out of 5 stars
    13 ratings by Goodreads

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