Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Third Edition 3rd Edition

For students going through a multi year degrees. This can be one of your touchstone book you keep throughout your career. Practical advice and exercises for all without being too theoretical.For indies, it a great set of practical ideas to 'stress test' your design and to explore its edges for new opportunities in game play.

This is an amazing book! If you want to learn about the best game designers and if you want exercises to help you generate game ideas, buy this book. It's a game designing curriculum that is helping me create an educational video game for my graduate research project.

Fullerton has put together a well-focused and tightly structured textbook that guides readers through all relevant stages of game design. The chapters have a sharp focus, are clearly written, and contain useful exercises and further readings. Arguably one of the strongest elements are the sidebars by industry insiders, which provide reality checks and inspiration. I only had minor gripes, for instance that the digital version of the third edition is missing all cross references, or that the writing could have been checked better for industry jargon (what is it with design folks always 'planning out', 'mapping out', 'building out', etc? What ever happened to simply 'planning', 'mapping', or 'building' something?). But these are negligible caveats in an overall solid publication that I am more than happy to recommend to my own Games Studies students.

For me, it's the second best game design book, being A book of lenses the only better.I find Game Design Workshop easier to understand and the workflow the book presents is ideal for teaching.

Great for a beginner like me. Rules of play is the only other book that could top this but that's only in theory.

Books good. Just sucks cause I haven't used it once.

good resource

If you are looking for a "course text book" to inspire discussion and thinking and further research this is a an awesome book (although the print quality is poor, or did I get a counterfeit print again?!). But if you are looking for a book for personal learning this is just an OK book. Probably you already know all of this, but this is just organized and well put together.