Several of them have gone on to
become prominent independent game designers,
such as the team at thatgamecompany, which developed
the hit downloadable title ?¬‚ Ow from a student
research project created at USC. The method we
present here has proven to be successful over and
over again. Whatever your background, your technical
skills, your reasons for wanting to design games,
our goal with this book is to enable you to design
games that engage and delight your players.
Our approach is exercise driven and extremely
nontechnical. This may surprise you, but we do not
recommend implementing your designs digitally
right away. The complexities of so ware development
o en hamper a designer??™s ability to see the
structural elements of their system clearly. The
exercises contained in this book require no programming
expertise or visual art skills and so release
you from the intricacies of digital game production
while allowing you to learn what works and what
does not work in your game system. Additionally,
these exercises will teach you the most important
skill in the game design: the process of prototyping,
playtesting, and revising your system based on
player feedback.
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