Game magic

Game magic: a designer's guide to magic systems in theory and practice

by Howard, Jeff

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"This book provides a guide to performing magic and combining arcane symbols to render meaningful and powerful utterances. The author analyzes magic systems in games and shows how to effectively design better systems. The text encompasses the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in both games and human belief and incorporates pseudocode examples of how to design and program magic systems, with working examples offered online"--

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Game magic : a designer's guide to magic systems in theory and practice / Jeff Howard, Assistant Professor of Game Development and Design, Dakota State University.

Summary

"This book provides a guide to performing magic and combining arcane symbols to render meaningful and powerful utterances. The author analyzes magic systems in games and shows how to effectively design better systems. The text encompasses the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in both games and human belief and incorporates pseudocode examples of how to design and program magic systems, with working examples offered online"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):A K Peters/CRC Press
  • Place of Publication:Baco Raton, FL
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxix, 337 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781466567856, 1466567856
  • oclc:ocn795010803
  • LC Classification:GV1547
  • Dewey Decimal:793.8

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. How to use this book -- chapter 2. Magic systems in theory and practice -- chapter 3. From exemplary game magic systems to code recipes -- chapter 4. Schools of game magic -- chapter 5. Magic as programming, programming as magic -- chapter 6. Game design lessons from occult magic -- chapter 7. A videogame designer's guide to non-digital game magic -- chapter 8. Adapting game magic from the literature of the fantastic.

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Subjects

COMPUTERS -- Programming Magic -- Psychological aspects Magic tricks Prestidigitation

Writers

Howard, Jeff

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