Game Magic
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Game Magic

A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Game Magic

A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice

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About This Book

Make More Immersive and Engaging Magic Systems in GamesGame Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore, encompassing the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in games and human belief. The author combines rigorous scholarly analysis wi

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Year
2014
ISBN
9781466567870

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Thanks
  6. The Author
  7. Table of Recipes/Code Snippets
  8. Proverbs of Game Magic
  9. Epigraphs
  10. Chapter 1: How to Use This Book
  11. Chapter 2: Magic Systems in Theory and Practice
  12. Chapter 3: From Exemplary Game Magic Systems to Code Recipes
  13. Chapter 4: Schools of Game Magic
  14. Chapter 5: Magic as Programming, Programming as Magic
  15. Chapter 6: Game Design Lessons from Occult Magic
  16. Chapter 7: A Videogame Designer’s Guide to Non-Digital Game Magic
  17. Chapter 8: Adapting Game Magic from the Literature of the Fantastic
  18. Works Cited
  19. Appendix A: A Magic System Worksheet
  20. Appendix B: Timelines
  21. Back Cover