The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. Jesse Schell

Good game design is when you can look at your game from as many perspectives as possible. The Art of Game Design, a book by one of the world’s top game designers, Jesse Schell, offers 116 sets of questions, or lenses, for looking at game design, spanning a variety of disciplines—psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. With this book, you’ll learn how to make game designs faster and better. In addition to a deep understanding of the theory, it provides detailed, practical instructions that will help you create world-class games that people will want to play again and again.