Swords and Circuitry

A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games

Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford

514 pages, parution le 15/03/2001

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Résumé

Learn from the designer behind role-playing best-sellers like Betrayal at Krondor, Planet's Edge, and Might & Magic III: Isles of Terra Computer role-playing games (RPGs) allow players to assume the role of a hero on an epic quest. During the course of the game, the player's character "learns" new spells and skills that, in turn, allow him or her to explore even more of the game world and to solve the challenge presented by the game designers. Never in the history of gaming have role-playing titles been more popular.

Swords & Circuitry : A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games takes the reader on a journey into the arcane world of game development, deciphering the mysteries of the role-playing audience, the history of RPGs, the technical definition of the genre, the roles of a game designer, the fundamentals of building good gameplay and interfaces, and last, but certainly not least, the art of professional worldbuilding. Featuring actual design document excerpts from the hit games Deus Ex, Fallout, Nox, and Stonekeep, it also presents in-depth interviews with top role-playing designers like John Cutter (Betrayal at Krondor), Chris Taylor (Dungeon Siege), Trent Oster (Neverwinter Nights), Sarah Stocker (Pools of Radiance II: The Ruins of Myth Drannor), Jon Van Caneghem (Might & Magic series), and Carly Staehlin (Ultima Online). Game industry artists Shawn Sharp, Jon Gwyn, Jim Wible, and Jeff Perryman also provide exciting and topical illustrations that evoke not only the look, but the feel, of the worlds that every role-playing designer strives to create. Co-written by a veteran marketeer and the designer behind role-playing bestsellers Betrayal at Krondor, Planet's Edge, and Dungeon Siege, Swords & Circuitry provides everything that a role-playing title must have to succeed!

Contents

Foreword
Introduction

Shadow of the Past
The Designer's Domain
Workshop of the Gods
The Games
Appendixes

Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prima Publishing
Auteur(s)	Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford
Parution	15/03/2001
Nb. de pages	514
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	911g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780761532996
ISBN13	978-0-7615-3299-6