Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible Written by one of the world's top game designers The Art of Game Design presents 100 sets of questions or different lenses for viewing a game's design encompassing diverse fields such as psychology architecture music visual design film software engineering theme park design mathematics puzzle design & anthropology This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner Describes the deepest & most fundamental principles of game design Demonstrates how tactics used in board card & athletic games also work in finest top quality video games Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell the former chair of the International Game Developers Association & award-winning designer of Disney online games The Art of Game Design Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again & again