Game Design: Theory & Practice- P1

Game Design: Theory & Practice- P1: My earliest recollection of playing a computer game was when I stumbled upon ahalf-height Space Invaders at a tiny Mexican restaurant in my hometown. I was perhapssix, and Space Invaders was certainly the most marvelous thing I had everseen, at least next to LegoLand.
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Game Design: Theory & Practice- P1 Y FL AMTE Team-Fly® Game Design: Theory & Practice Richard Rouse IIIIllustrations bySteve OgdenAtomic Sam character designed byRichard Rouse III and Steve OgdenLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataRouse, Richard. Game design: theory & practice / by Richard Rouse III ; illustrations by Steve Ogden. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55622-735-3 (pbk.) 1. Computer games—Programming. I. Title. QA76.76.C672 R69 2000 794.81526—dc21 00-053436 CIP © 2001, Wordware Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved 2320 Los Rios Boulevard Plano, Texas 75074 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc. Printed in the United States of AmericaISBN 1-55622-735-310 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 10011Product names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.All inquiries for volume purchases of this book should be addressed to Wordware Publishing, Inc., at the aboveaddress. Telephone inquiries may be made by calling: (972) 423-0090iiCopyright Notices Atomic Sam design document and images ™ and ©1999-2000 Richard Rouse III. Atomic Sam character designed by Richard Rouse III and Steve Ogden. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Portions of Chapter 18: Interview: Jordan Mechner originally appeared in Inside Mac Games magazine. Used with kind permission. Images from Duke Nukem 3D ® and © 2000 3D Realms Entertainment. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from the 3D version of Centipede ® and © 2000 Atari Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Though the game is referred to as “Centipede 3D” in this book in order to differentiate it from the older game, its proper name is simply “Centipede.” Images from Super Breakout, Asteroids, Centipede, Millipede, and Tempest® or ™ and © 2000 Atari Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from WarCraft, WarCraft II, StarCraft, and Diablo II ® or ™ and © 2000 Blizzard Enter- tainment. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Hodj ’n’ Podj and The Space Bar © 2000 Boffo Games. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and Myth: The Fallen Lords ® or ™ and © 2000 Bungie Software Products Corporation. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Balance of Power, Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot, Balance of Power II: The 1990 Edition, Guns & Butter, Balance of the Planet, and the Erasmatron ® or ™ and © 2000 Chris Crawford. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Myst ® and ©1993 Cyan, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, and Thief II ® or ™ and © 2000 Eidos Interactive. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Unreal and Unreal Tournament ® or ™ and © 2000 Epic Games. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Sid Meier’s Gettysburg! and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri ™ and © 2000 Firaxis Games. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Doom, Doom II, Quake II, and Quake III Arena ® and © 2000 id Software. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. Images from Spellcasting 101 © 1990 Legend Entertainment Company, Spellcasting 201 © 1991 Legend Entertainment Company, and Superhero League of Hoboken © 1994 Legend Entertain- ment Company. All rights reserved. Used with the kind permission of Infogrames, Inc. iii Images from Maniac Mansion, Loom, and Grim Fandango ® or ™ and © 2000 LucasArts Enter- tainment Company, LLC. All rights reserved. Used with kind authorization. Images from SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, SimCity 2000, SimCopter, SimCity 3000, and The Sims ® and © 2000 Maxis, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission. ...