Game Design Deep Dive; Trading and Collectible Card Games
by Joshua Bycer
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103237070X | 163 pages | True PDF | 30.55 MB
by Joshua Bycer
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103237070X | 163 pages | True PDF | 30.55 MB
In Game Design Deep Dive: Trading and Collectible Card Games , game design analyst Joshua Bycer is back to discuss the deck-building genre, from the original success of Magic: The Gathering to today’s market with online card games like Hearthstone and Gwent . The design and philosophy of deck builders and tabletop games can be and have been applied to many genres.
- Looks at the history of popular tabletop card games and collectible card games
- Discusses how to design and balance your game with low numbers
- Examines the application of card-based design in other genres
Perfect for students and designers to learn about designing deck builders and card-based games.
Joshua Bycer is a game design critic with more than seven years of experience critically analyzing game design and the industry itself. In that time, through Game-Wisdom.com, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games.