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Game Design: Theory & Practice Second Edition Richard Rouse III Illustrations by Steve Ogden Foreword by Noah Falstein Atomi ...

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rouse, Richard. Game design: theory & practice / by Richard Rouse III ; i ...

Copyright Notices Atomic Sam design document and images ™ and ©1999-2004 Richard Rouse III. Atomic Sam character designed by Ric ...

Images from Spellcasting 101 © 1990 Legend Entertainment Company, Spellcasting 201 © 1991 Legend Entertainment Company, and Supe ...

Dedication In memory of Jamie. v ...

Acknowledgments Thanks to Steve Ogden for coming back to Atomic Sam and breathing life into the little kid once again. Thanks to ...

About the Author Richard Rouse III is Design Director at Surreal Software, a Midway Home Entertain- ment studio. Most recently, ...

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Contents Chapter 1 What Players Want....................... Contents Summary Chapter 2 Interview: Sid Meier.................... ...

Foreword Just a few years ago, books about computer game design were as rare on the book- shelves as silk ties in the wardrobe o ...

Introduction to the Second Edition It has been four years since the release of the first edition of the book you now hold in you ...

a few of the gaps. Multi-player games have become significantly more prevalent since the first edition and were woefully underre ...

refer to in this book are titles that I consider to be worth anyone’s time to play. That said, a big problem for game historians ...