Beginning Game Level Design - Softcover

Feil, John Harold; Scattergood, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592004342 ISBN 13: 9781592004348

Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR, 2005

Synopsis

"Beginning Game Level Design" is aimed at readers who want to learn about the creation of game environments and the control of game play, known in the game development industry as "level design". It presents an overview of the skills required to produce high quality levels and teaches readers the basic uses of several genre-specific tools along the way. It focuses on key topics, including design aesthetics, familiarization with the basic tools used in level design, what makes "good levels" and how to create them, and explains how readers can transfer these new skills into a job as a level designer. The author takes a step-by-step tutorial approach to teaching the level design techniques genre-by-genre. Offering readers a unique value, this book covers the basics of level design without focusing strongly on one single software platform or product.

About this title

About the Author:

John Feil is a game industry veteran whose duties have spanned from quality assurance, to technical writing, and finally to level designer and designer. He's worked on such titles as Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter and Star Wars: Battle for Naboo, as well as a host of other Star Wars titles. Currently, John is a member of the board of directors for the International Game Developer's Association (IGDA), and was recently a designer/implementer on Microsoft Game Studio's cancelled massively multiplayer game, Mythica.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592004342
• ISBN 13: 9781592004348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256