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Summary: Practical and solid book on building levels and games
Review: "Ultimate Games Design" There seems to be no shortage of games design books, and they all claim to be the ultimate. All of them wants to deal primarily with the big fluffy ideas of the lead design - the overall idea of the game and so forth. Few of them has anything to say about the actual execution in terms of level design for example.Untill now. Despite hating the title (and the colour scheme) of this book, I have to bow to the ultimate thing. This is as good a good as you will get right now about actually building game worlds - the level designs, the modelling, the texturing, the lighting and so forth. It also has one of the mandatory chapters on getting into the industry, where Tom Meigs goes beyond the usual war stories from the pros and repetitive listing of roles in the games industry, to actually offer the reader a good ammount of introspective questions to ponder and sage advice to gear up for the bumpy ride ahead. So from hating it, this book has become one of my absolute favourites on games design. Well done Tom Meigs, whoever you are!
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Summary: Practical and solid book on building levels and games
Review: "Ultimate Games Design" There seems to be no shortage of games design books, and they all claim to be the ultimate. All of them wants to deal primarily with the big fluffy ideas of the lead design - the overall idea of the game and so forth. Few of them has anything to say about the actual execution in terms of level design for example. Untill now. Despite hating the title (and the colour scheme) of this book, I have to bow to the ultimate thing. This is as good a good as you will get right now about actually building game worlds - the level designs, the modelling, the texturing, the lighting and so forth. It also has one of the mandatory chapters on getting into the industry, where Tom Meigs goes beyond the usual war stories from the pros and repetitive listing of roles in the games industry, to actually offer the reader a good ammount of introspective questions to ponder and sage advice to gear up for the bumpy ride ahead. So from hating it, this book has become one of my absolute favourites on games design. Well done Tom Meigs, whoever you are!
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Summary: Ultimate waste of time!
Review: Ambiguous content with statements such as light can be very useful... AND! This book is of no value to any one who is remotely interested in greating/building actual game worlds. You would be better off giving the book a miss and check the forums out on the internet. I am gutted that I made the mistake of reading and believing the comments made on the books contents which now seems obvious these were placed by the authors friends and relatives. It's a pity Amazon do not accept returns! As such the book is destined for the bin.
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Summary: Best game design book so far...
Review: I have been looking for a game design book that shows me examples of how to do stuff fast and not just talk about players that want this or that in their games. This one shows you everything you need to know. I think after reading it that you can start making a game fast and get it out there. It is thebest I can find.
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Summary: Best game design book so far...
Review: I have been looking for a game design book that shows me examples of how to do stuff fast and not just talk about players that want this or that in their games. This one shows you everything you need to know. I think after reading it that you can start making a game fast and get it out there. It is thebest I can find.
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Summary: Best Game Design Overview Available...
Review: I really enjoyed this book! I have some limited experience in game development, and this book really helped fill in the blanks for me. It was highly recommended by a friend who already works in the game industry -- and on several websites. I wasn't disappointed. I think it's the best book available. The book flowed easily from chapter to chapter. Previsualization - Level Planning and Building - Lighting - Texturing - Particles - Effects - Actors - Props - Audio
Camera Control - Genre Design - Scripting - QA - MMOGs - Wireless It's all covered in pretty balanced detail. I finally feel like I understand how all this stuff relates in building a game and no single book had helped me this way before. I bought several other books on game design - but they were either too general or didn't really seem to cover the stuff you need to really get going in this area. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Best Game Design Overview Available...
Review: I really enjoyed this book! I have some limited experience in game development, and this book really helped fill in the blanks for me. It was highly recommended by a friend who already works in the game industry -- and on several websites. I wasn't disappointed. I think it's the best book available. The book flowed easily from chapter to chapter. Previsualization - Level Planning and Building - Lighting - Texturing - Particles - Effects - Actors - Props - Audio
Camera Control - Genre Design - Scripting - QA - MMOGs - Wireless It's all covered in pretty balanced detail. I finally feel like I understand how all this stuff relates in building a game and no single book had helped me this way before. I bought several other books on game design - but they were either too general or didn't really seem to cover the stuff you need to really get going in this area. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Very helpful because
Review: I really liked the interviews with the game creators at Blizzard/Lucas/Sony and all. The sections on learning how to make up behavior helped out alot. Now I feel like, I'm armed now to take on the industry and it was an easy read with great payoff.
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Summary: Very helpful because
Review: I really recommend to this book everyone I meet that is interested in how games get made or if you want to make games yourself. As for me, I want to be a game artist. Every section has useful items that I haven't found anywhere else. If you want to take game seriously - this book can help you out. The reference section alone is a goldmine.
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Summary: Awesome new games book
Review: I really recommend to this book everyone I meet that is interested in how games get made or if you want to make games yourself. As for me, I want to be a game artist. Every section has useful items that I haven't found anywhere else. If you want to take game seriously - this book can help you out. The reference section alone is a goldmine.
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