1st Edition

Situational Game Design

By Brian Upton Copyright 2018
127 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by A K Peters/CRC Press

127 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by A K Peters/CRC Press

127 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by A K Peters/CRC Press

Situational Design lays out a new methodology for designing and critiquing videogames. While most game design books focus on games as formal systems, Situational Design concentrates squarely on player experience. It looks at how playfulness is not a property of a game considered in isolation, but rather the result of the intersection of a game with an appropriate player. Starting from simple... Read more

Ch 1 Epistemology. Ch 2 Constraints. Ch 3 Situations. Ch 4 Interactivity. Ch 5 Choices. Ch 6 Consequences. Ch 7 Anticipation. Ch 8 Goals. Ch 9 Perrformance. Ch 10 Narrative. Ch 11 Meaning.

Biography

Brian Upton is 20-year veteran of the game industry.  He was one of the founders of Red Storm Entertainment where he designed the original Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.  From 2002 to 2016 he worked as a senior game designer at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio, where he collaborated with external teams on innovative indie titles such as Fat Princess, Warhawk, Sorcery, Everybody Has Gone to the Rapture, Bound, and Here They Lie.  He currently is lead world designer at Tangent Games.