The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology

Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2005-11-23
  • 售價: $1,650
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,617
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 960
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262195364
  • ISBN-13: 9780262195362
  • 相關分類: 遊戲設計 Game-design
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The Game Design Reader is a one-of-a-kind collection on game design and criticism, from classic scholarly essays to cutting-edge case studies. A companion work to Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman's textbook Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, The Game Design Reader is a classroom sourcebook, a reference for working game developers, and a great read for game fans and players.

Thirty-two essays by game designers, game critics, game fans, philosophers, anthropologists, media theorists, and others consider fundamental questions: What are games and how are they designed? How do games interact with culture at large? What critical approaches can game designers take to create game stories, game spaces, game communities, and new forms of play?

Salen and Zimmerman have collected seminal writings that span 50 years to offer a stunning array of perspectives. Game journalists express the rhythms of game play, sociologists tackle topics such as role-playing in vast virtual worlds, players rant and rave, and game designers describe the sweat and tears of bringing a game to market. Each text acts as a springboard for discussion, a potential class assignment, and a source of inspiration. The book is organized around fourteen topics, from The Player Experience to The Game Design Process, from Games and Narrative to Cultural Representation. Each topic, introduced with a short essay by Salen and Zimmerman, covers ideas and research fundamental to the study of games, and points to relevant texts within the Reader. Visual essays between book sections act as counterpoint to the writings.

Like Rules of Play, The Game Design Reader is an intelligent and playful book. An invaluable resource for professionals and a unique introduction for those new to the field, The Game Design Reader is essential reading for anyone who takes games seriously.

Katie Salen is a game designer, interactive designer, animator, and Director of Graduate Studies in Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design. She has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, and School of Visual Arts.

Eric Zimmerman is a game designer, game design theorist, and co-founder and CEO of gameLab. He has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Warren Spector
x
Preface
Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
xvi
interstitial: How to Win "Super Mario Bros"
Topic Essays by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman 1
The Player Experience 3
The Rules of a Game 9
Gaming the Game 15
The Game Design Process 21
Player and Character 27
Games and Narrative 33
Game Communities 39
Speaking of Games 45
Game Design Models 53
Game Economies 59
Game Spaces 65
Cultural Representation 71
What is a Game? 77
What is Play? 83
interstitial: Cosplay
Texts: Bibliography 91
Chart of Texts and Topics 93
interstitial: Urban Invasion
Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon (1955)
Johan Huizinga
96
The Definition of Play: The Classification of Games (1962)
Roger Caillois
122
Shoot Club: The DOOM 3 Review (2004)
Tom Chick
156
interstitial: Collateral Romance
Construction of a Definition (1990)
Bernard Suits
172
I Have No Words & I Must Design (1994)
Greg Costikyan
192
The Cabal: Valve's Design Process for Creating Half-Life (1999)
Ken Birdwell
212
interstitial: Urban Games
Semiotic Domains: Is Playing Video Games a "Waste of Time?" (2003)
James Gee
228
The Evil Summoner FAQ v1.0: How to Be a Cheap Ass (2001)
Mochan
268
Play and Ambiguity (2001)
Brian Sutton-Smith
296
A Theory of Play and Fantasy (1972)
Gregory Bateson
314
"Complete Freedom of Movement": Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces (1998)
Henry Jenkins
330
interstitial: DDR Step Charts
Formal Abstract Design Tools (1999)
Doug Church
366
Game Theory (1992)
William Poundstone
382
Games and Design Patterns (2005)
Staffan Bjork and Jussi Holopainen
410
Tools for Creating Dramatic Game Dynamics (2005)
Marc LeBlanc
438
Game Analysis: Centipede (2001)
Richard Rouse III
460
interstitial: Indie Game Jam
Unwritten Rules (1999)
Stephen Sniderman
476
Beyond the Rules of the Game: Why Are Rooie Rules Nice? (1983)
Linda Hughes
504
Changing the Game (1978)
Bernard DeKoven
518
The Design Evolution of Magic: The Gathering (1993 | 2004)
Richard Garfield
538
interstitial: Blast Theory
Eyeball and Cathexis (1983)
David Sudnow
558
Frames and Games (1983)
Gary Alan Fine
578
Bow, Nigger (2004)
always_ black
602
Cultural Models: Do You Want to Be the Blue Sonic or the Dark Sonic? (2003)
James Gee
610
interstitial: Red vs. Blue
Interaction and Narrative (2000 | 2005)
Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern
642
Game Design as Narrative Architecture (2004)
Henry Jenkins
670
Adventure as a Video Game: Adventure for the Atari 2600 (1983-84)
Warren Robinett
690
Eastern Front (1941) (2003)
Chris Crawford
714
interstitial: Serious Games
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1990)
F. Randall Farmer and Chip Morningstar
728
Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs (1996)
Richard Bartle
754
Declaring the Rights of Players (2000)
Raph Koster
788
Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier (2001)
Edward Castronova
814
interstitial: Painstation
Coda: Piercing the Spectacle (2005)
Brenda Laurel
866
interstitial: Le Parkour
Interstitial Credits 872
Index 876
Final Word
Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman

 

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《遊戲設計讀本》是一本獨一無二的遊戲設計和評論集,包含了經典的學術論文和尖端的案例研究。作為Katie Salen和Eric Zimmerman的教科書《遊戲規則:遊戲設計基礎》的伴隨作品,《遊戲設計讀本》是一本課堂教材,也是遊戲開發者的參考資料,同時也適合遊戲愛好者和玩家閱讀。

這本書收錄了來自遊戲設計師、遊戲評論家、遊戲愛好者、哲學家、人類學家、媒體理論家等的32篇文章,探討了一些基本問題:遊戲是什麼,它們是如何設計的?遊戲如何與整個文化互動?遊戲設計師可以採取哪些批判性方法來創造遊戲故事、遊戲空間、遊戲社區和新的遊戲形式?

Salen和Zimmerman收集了跨越50年的重要著作,提供了多元的觀點。遊戲記者描述了遊戲遊玩的節奏,社會學家探討了在虛擬世界中的角色扮演,玩家們吐槽和讚美,遊戲設計師們描述了將遊戲推向市場的辛苦和淚水。每篇文章都可以作為討論的起點、潛在的課堂作業和靈感來源。這本書按照14個主題組織,從玩家體驗到遊戲設計過程,從遊戲和敘事到文化表達。每個主題都由Salen和Zimmerman撰寫了一篇簡短的文章,介紹了遊戲研究的基本思想和研究,並指向了《讀本》中相關的文本。書中的視覺文章在各個章節之間起到了對比的作用。

和《遊戲規則》一樣,《遊戲設計讀本》是一本聰明而有趣的書。對於專業人士來說是一個寶貴的資源,對於新手來說是一個獨特的入門指南,《遊戲設計讀本》是任何認真對待遊戲的人必讀之書。

Katie Salen是一位遊戲設計師、互動設計師、動畫師,並擔任設計和技術研究研究生課程的主任,就讀於帕森設計學院。她曾在麻省理工學院、德克薩斯大學、帕森設計學院、紐約大學、羅德島設計學院和視覺藝術學院等大學任教。

Eric Zimmerman是一位遊戲設計師、遊戲設計理論家,也是遊戲實驗室的聯合創始人兼首席執行官。他曾在麻省理工學院、德克薩斯大學、帕森設計學院、紐約大學、羅德島設計學院和視覺藝術學院等大學任教。

《目錄》:

前言:Warren Spector
序言:Katie Salen和Eric Zimmerman
插圖:如何贏得《超級瑪利歐兄弟》
主題文章:Katie Salen和Eric Zimmerman