Ella Mack  

Rubik's Cube - Games

This book assumes that you can already solve the Rubik’s cube. Maybe you’ve only solved it once and you figure that’s enough of an accomplishment. Maybe you’re an accomplished solver who races others to see how fast you can solve it. Maybe you’re like me and you’re not too fast, are kind of bored, and you need new challenges. If you are any of these people, you should find this book enjoyable. You will be amused and challenged by easy to seemingly impossible patterns that you can recreate on your cube. Both 3x3 and 4x4 cube puzzles are included, and unique full-color photographs make the book a true collector’s item.

George Phillies

Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design - Gaming     

Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design delivers interviews with the peers of the game design community, the designers and publishers whose work defines excellence in game design.  From Costikyan to Nestel, from Besinque to Garfield to Seyfarth, Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design presents observations and insights from the men and women who design contemporary games.  Over 100 Discussion Problems based on the interviews support an academic course, leading students to deeper insights into the nature of the design, publishing, and use of modern board games.

Design Elements of Contemporary Strategy Games - Gaming     

For centuries, great artists have had a secret.

If you paint, don’t just study painting.

Great painters study every medium: painting, ceramics, sculpture, glassblowing... because the perspectives from every other medium make them better painters.

But you say: I’m a computer game designer!

That’s right. Just as great painters study textiles, great computer game designers study other sorts of games. Strategy games. War games. Miniatures. Role playing games. If you don’t believe us, ask yourself: Who designed Quake and Doom, and what did he design first?

In the words of Greg Costikyan: Don’t be a vidiot! If your sole experience of games derives from the arcade, the console, and the home PC...You will see only what exists in the here and now...Your palette of techniques, your grasp of the possible, will be limited.

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