The Game Design Toolbox

Book excerpt: "The Game Design Toolbox is a sampling of practical game design tools. Taking a focused look at how the job of a game designer gets done, this book is for anyone who works or wants to work professionally with game design. The book starts by explaining how a game designer's role shifts with experience and how everyone with opinions about games is a game designer. Then it presents tools to help you structure your ideation. Tools for exploring your ideas through different forms of prototyping. Tools used to aid you in committing to the best parts of your design. Tools that can allow you to solve the toughest problems with your game. Tools to set you up for efficient balancing. Then when you approach the finish line, there are tools that can help you with tuning your game into a final product. It takes a look at game design as a job and not just the theory"--