The Art of Game Design

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, a book by Jesse Schell, shows that principles of psychology that work for board games and card games also work for top-quality video games. Good game design happens when you view your game from many perspectives, or lenses. The book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses—one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help improve your game. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer—and will understand how to do it.