for non-gamebiz people and for homebrewers...

[Heaven/TQA]

...check out:

 

www.gamasutra.com

 

the book "gamedesign" from marc saltzmann (not technical book, very interesting, many comments from people out of the gamebiz)

 

and the book "rapid development" from steve mcconnell...very good...and very good reference book for software development... from project & planning point of view but beware...when you are in software biz and "on the other side"...f.e. marketing... you will understand and learn why things are "probably" going wrong sometimes in your studio... and why several games & project slipp...

 

hve

[Cybergoth]

the book "gamedesign" from marc saltzmann (not technical book, very interesting, many comments from people out of the gamebiz)

 

Recommended!!!!!!!!!

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Jetboot Jack]

Sorry - I gotta disagree Hve - that book is AWFUL - you'll learn more about game design playing games than reading that book!!!!

 

There are very few game design books worth anything - I have bought them all (on expenses of course) and been disappointed with them all

 

sTeVE - yes I am a game designer!

[Heaven/TQA]

agreed steve to a certain point... but if you get notes & other usefull tips from people which made famours games than this helps newbies. we are professionals but when i started to read the book i realised that most ideas and stuff i critized on games were all known... so this book helps a lot... it is not a book like "how to design a game" but it helps to concentrate on the basics... f.e. a game bust be fun...a game must have less fizzling controls, etc... and it is fun to read...like a paperbook...

it is a "mass market commercial" book...not a book when studing computer science...

 

if you have desined several games for years you don't need this book... but my itention was that for homebrewers it is well reading...and most of them (probably) don't know how many resources are out there... f.e. gamasutra with commercial case studies... nothing is more interesting than the reality...

 

hve

 

ps. i have saltzmans book 3 times... i really like it...i will sell one on ebay after my holiday...

[calamari]

I looked for these books but couldn't find them on the website. How do you get to them?

 

Thanks,

calamari

[Heaven/TQA]

www.amazon.com, .co.uk, .de or whatever... ;=)