Clockwork Game Design

by Keith Burgun

Overview

This book is a functional and directly applicable theory for game design, particularly focusing on strategic and tactical games, but also more broadly applicable to many kinds of games. It is filled with examples and exercises detailing how to put the clockwork game design pattern into use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032777313
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/24/2024
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Keith Burgun is the author of Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games. He is a contributing editor to Gamasutra and his own design blog at keithburgun.net. He has taught game design at a number of schools, including SUNY Purchase College, The New York Film Academy, and the Katonah Arts Center. He has also guest lectured at NYU and Franklin & Marshall College.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Theory

Section 1: Games

Section 2: The Essential Value of Games

Chapter 2: Anatomy

Section 1: Purpose

Section 2: The Core Mechanism

Section 3: The Goal

Section 4: Supporting Mechanisms

Section 5: Theme

Section 6: Documentation

Chapter 3: Construction

Section 1: The Approach

Section 2: Analysis

Section 3: Implementation

Chapter 4: Pitfalls

Section 1: Problems

Section 2: My Experiences

Section 3: Closing Thoughts