Game Design Deep Dive

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CD Projekt
Collectible Card Games
console market
Creature Card
CRPG
Deck Building
Deep Dive
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digital card game development
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game mechanics analysis
Gameplay
games
JRPG
ludology research
player interaction modelling
Pokemon
probability balancing methods
Rarer Cards
Roguelikes
role play
Secondhand Market
Specific Cards
Spell Card
Tabletop
tabletop strategy design
Trading Card Games
Vice Versa

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032370705
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 Analyst with over a decade of experience writing for major sites, doing YouTube, and the author of the Game Design Deep Dive series. 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.

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