Christopher Barney
Chris Barney’s Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series of practical, rigorous exercises, designers can observe and analyze the failures and successes of the games they know and love to find the deep patterns that underlie good design. From an in-depth look at Alexander’s work, to a critique of pattern theory in various fields, to a new approach that will challenge your knowledge and put it to work, this book seeks to transform how we look at building the interactive experiences that shape us.
Key Features:
Background on the architectural concepts of patterns and a Pattern Language as defined in the work of Christopher Alexander, including his later work on the Fifteen Properties of Wholeness and Generative Codes.
Analysis of other uses of Alexander’s work in computer science and game design, and the limitations of those efforts.
A comprehensive set of example exercises to help the reader develop their own patterns that can be used in practical day-to-day game design tasks.
Exercises that are useful to designers at all levels of experience and can be completed in any order, allowing students to select exercises that match their coursework and allowing professionals to select exercises that address their real-world challenges.
Discussion of common pitfalls and difficulties with the pattern derivation process.
A guide for game design teachers, studio leaders, and university departments for curating and maintaining institutional Pattern Languages.
An Interactive Pattern Language website where you can share patterns with developers throughout the world (patternlanguageforgamedesign.com).
Comprehensive games reference for all games discussed in this book.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
English | Paperback | | 9780367367725 | 2020 | 476 |
English | Hardcover | | 9780367633950 | 2020 | 476 |
English | eBook | | N/A | 2020 | 476 |
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