Swipe This!

Learn to design games for tablets from a renowned game
designer!

Eager to start designing games for tablets but not sure where to
start? Look no further! Gaming guru Scott Rogers has his finger on
the pulse of tablet game design and is willing to impart his wisdom
and secrets for designing exciting and successful games. As the
creator of such venerable games as God of War, the
SpongeBob Squarepants series, and Pac-Man World, to
name a few, Rogers writes from personal experience and in this
unique book, he hands you the tools to create your own tablet games
for the iPad, Android tablets, Nintendo DS, and other touchscreen
systems.

• Covers the entire tablet game creation process, placing a
  special focus on the intricacies and pitfalls of touch-screen game
  design

• Explores the details and features of tablet game systems and
  shows you how to develop marketable ideas as well as market your
  own games

• Offers an honest take on what perils and pitfalls await you
  during a game's pre-production, production, and post-production
  stages

• Features interviews with established tablet game developers
  that serve to inspire you as you start to make your own tablet game
  design

Swipe This! presents you with an in-depth analysis of
popular tablet games and delivers a road map for getting started
with tablet game design.

Autorentext

After deciding that game designers have more fun, Scott Rogers embarked on an eighteen- (and counting) year career creating video games, including Sony's God of War™, Capcom's Maximo: Ghosts to Glory and its sequel Maximo vs. Army of Zin, Namco's Pac-Man World and THQ's Darksiders and Drawn to Life series. He is currently an Imagineer for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Zusammenfassung
Learn to design games for tablets from a renowned game designer! Eager to start designing games for tablets but not sure where to start? Look no further! Gaming guru Scott Rogers has his finger on the pulse of tablet game design and is willing to impart his wisdom and secrets for designing exciting and successful games. As the creator of such venerable games as God of War, the SpongeBob Squarepants series, and Pac-Man World, to name a few, Rogers writes from personal experience and in this unique book, he hands you the tools to create your own tablet games for the iPad, Android tablets, Nintendo DS, and other touchscreen systems.

• Covers the entire tablet game creation process, placing a special focus on the intricacies and pitfalls of touch-screen game design
• Explores the details and features of tablet game systems and shows you how to develop marketable ideas as well as market your own games
• Offers an honest take on what perils and pitfalls await you during a game's pre-production, production, and post-production stages
• Features interviews with established tablet game developers that serve to inspire you as you start to make your own tablet game design
  Swipe This! presents you with an in-depth analysis of popular tablet games and delivers a road map for getting started with tablet game design.

Inhalt

Introduction Swipe This Book! 1

Some Possible Reasons You Picked Up Swipe This! 2

Who is This Book For? 2

Working Video Game Professionals 3

Future Video Game Designers 4

Students of Game Design 5

People Who Love Video Games 6

Why Another Book on Game Design? 7

What You Won't Find in This Book 7

Very Deep Theory 8

The Complete History of Video Games 8

How to Program Video Games 9

How to Create Video Game Art 9

Lameness 9

What You Will Find in This Book 9

Practical Information 10

Good News! 11

Chapter 1 Hardware Wars 13

Touch and Go! 18

More Things to Be Touchy About 20

Game On! 21

Destroy All Humans! 28

Developer Interview 1 Paul O'Connor 29

Chapter 2 Clown-On-A-Unicycle 33

Let's Get High (Concept) 35

Yes, But is It a Game? 39

Really Quick Guide to the One-Sheet 40

Form Follows Function 41

Function Follows Form 42

Length Matters 43

The Average Play Session Will Last 2 to 5 Minutes 45

The Overall Game Length Should Only Be a Few Hours 45

Develop Gameplay in Terms of Depth, Not Length 48

Emphasize Repeatability Over Content 48

Create Natural Play Breaks Over the Course of the Game 49

Emergent Eschmergent 49

I Want to Be Rich and Powerful 51

Game Design Spotlight 1 Fruit Ninja HD 53

Chapter 3 Finger Fu! 57

The Fabulous Folio of Facile Fingering 60

You Only Have Two (to Four) Fingers 68

Hands Solo 70

Virtual Joysticks Suck or Do They? 75

Hands Get Their Revenge 77

Developer Interview 2 Andy Ashcraft 81

Chapter 4 GenreBusters 85

Making a Name 91

Games Need Story or Do They? 94

Unreliable Narrators 106

Game Design Spotlight 2 Helsing's Fire 107

Chapter 5 Puzzlings 111

Superior Logic 115

The Problem with Math 118

Don't Be Difficult 121

Physics: It's for the Birds 123

Let's Get Wet 127

Do You See What I See? 128

Hiding in Plain Sight 131

Word Up 133

And the Solution is 135

Developer Interview 3 Erin Reynolds 137

Chapter 6 Arcade Crazy 141

The Good Ol' Days 143

Games? I'll Give You Games! 147

A-mazing Games 151

Cuteness Counts 152

The First Rule of Fighting Games 155

Get on the Ball 159

Baby, You Can Drive My iPhone 162

Beat It, Kid 165

Everything New is Old Again 166

Game Design Spotlight 3 Where's My Water? 171

Chapter 7 Action Guy 175

Think Like an Artist 177

The Metrics System 179

Didn't We Already Talk about Character? 182

World Building for Fun and Profit 183

What's with All the Zombies? 189

How to Design an Enemy in Six Easy Steps 190

Fighting for Cash and Glory! 194

Pain, Pain, Go Away, Come Again Some Other Day 201

Putting the Ack in Feedback15 202

The Only Good Player is a Dead One 203

Developer Interview 4 Blade Olsen 205

Chapter 8 DoodleCat 209

Get to the Point 210

Finger Pointers 212

The Artist's Way 214

A Line on Fun 217

Meow Meow Meow 220

Game Design Spotlight 4 Jetpack Joyride 223

Chapter 9 Casual Fryday 227

Board Games 229

Card Games 232

Real Time Strategy Games 234

How to Create a Tech Tree 236

Tower Defense Games 238

God Games 241 Sports Games 246...