Steve Dee: Worldbuilding for Game Designers

Cover: 9781032856810 | Worldbuilding for Game Designers | Steve Dee | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Our modern world is dominated by giant media companies, and increasingly they don't so much sell story, characters or gameplay as they do their setting. Fictional worlds are big business and represent big value to companies and audiences alike, and they are increasingly expected and demanded by both.

Über den Autor

Steve Dee has worked in games for thirty years as a designer, writer, editor, journalist, consultant, organizer and educator. He has won five ENnie awards for RPG design, most recently for CHEW: The Roleplaying Game and won Best Non-Digital Game at the 2024 Freeplay Awards for The Score. His card game There's Been A Murder has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into three languages. He is the president of Tin Star Games.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: General Principles, 1. Worlds Must Be Built to Purpose, 2. Setting Exists To Communicate Mechanics, 3. Worlds and Games Are Built On Narratives, 4. World Building is Character Building, 5. Astrology not Astronomy, 6. Realism and Believability, 7. Keep Asking Questions, 8. Question Everything, 9. Reality is Your Muse, 10. Keeping Asking People, 11. Rigidly Defined Areas of Doubt and Uncertainty, 12. Embodiment and Anthropology, Part Two: Breaking Ground, 13. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Worldbuilding, 14. Start Small and End Small, 15. Go Big and Go Home, 16. The Richard Scarry Interrogative, 17. Gods and Monsters, 18. The Map is not the Territory, 19. Genesis and the Bible, 20. Top Down..., 21. ...and Bottom Up, 22. The Spongebob Technique, 23. Good vs Evil and Other Popular Brands, 24. Psychographics and Psychodrama, 25. Plot Armour and Railroading, Part Three: Developing Your World, 26. Never Say Never Again, 27. Pipe and How To Lay It, 28. The Slice of Life, 29. Signs and Signifiers, 30. Synecdoche and Statistics, 31. A Game Is A Map, 32. Teaching and Example, 33. The Jimmy Olsen Blues, 34. The Ray Arnold Principle, 35. Filling the Fractal, 36. Borrowing, Stealing and Appropriating, 37. Lawyers, Puns and Money

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Spielen & Raten
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781032856810
ISBN-10:	1032856815
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dee, Steve
Hersteller:	CRC Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Steve Dee
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2025
Gewicht:	0,435 kg