Swords & Circuitry: A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Game Development)
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Book Description
Decipher the arcane mysteries behind role-playing game development tools like plot trees, world bibles, design documents, and game scripts. You'll learn the history of the role-playing game and move on to discover what makes games tick and howto make yours a success! This book is stocked full of sage advice from game gurus like John Cutter (Betrayal at Krondor), Jon Van Caneghem (Might & Magic), Chris Taylor (Dungeon Siege), Trent Oster (Neverwinter Nights), Sara Stocker (Pools of Radiance II: The Ruins of Myth Drannor), and Carly Staehlin (Ultima Online). This book also contains actual excerpts from the proposal, design, world layout, and game script documentation of successful games.
About the Author
Neal Hallford has been a professional game designer for more than 13 years and has led the development of several best-selling computer role-playing titles. He has co-authored the story behind the New York Times best-selling novel "Krondor: The Betrayal" and has created stories and designs for well known computer role-playing games, including "Betrayal at Krondor", "Planet's Edge", and "Dungeon Siege." He is currently leading the creation of "Lords of Everquest", a real-time strategy game based on the largest massively multiplayer role-playing game in the United States. Jana Hallford started out as an art critic before moving on to public relations and marketing. She has spent over five years promoting books and authors for an international publishing company. Jana has also supplied background material for two Sci-Fi Channel specials and has spoken at science fiction and fantasy conventions in the U.S. and the U.K.
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