Jeff Howard

Game Magic

A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore. Showing you how to weave compelling magic into your games, the book is interspersed with examples that illustrate how to design and program magic systems. It explains how to set up tables of correspondences and spell components as well as how to write programming code integrating these components as part of game mechanics. It also shows how to divide a simulated world into domains of influence and how to use specific rule systems to simulate powers within these realms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781466567856
• ISBN-10: 1466567856
• Artikelnr.: 36271919

Autorenporträt

Jeff Howard

Inhaltsangabe

How to Use This Book. Magic Systems in Theory and Practice. From Exemplary
Game Magic Systems to Code Recipes. Schools of Game Magic. Magic as
Programming, Programming as Magic. Game Design Lessons from Occult Magic. A
Videogame Designer's Guide to Non-Digital Game Magic. Adapting Game Magic
from the Literature of the Fantastic. Works Cited. Appendices. Index.