Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design

Master the design principles required to create games for maximum playability. bull; Written by the leading game book author, Andrew Rollings, and IGDA founder, Ernest Adams. bull; By following the tips and techniques presented in this book, programmers will avoid common mistakes that detract from game playability. bull; Techniques are categorized by genre and type, allowing readers to quickly identify specific areas of interest.

Andrew Rollings (co-author of the highly successful book Game Architecture and Design) has a B.S. in Physics from Imperial College, London, and Bristol University, and has worked as a technical consultant spanning the games industry and the financial industry since 1995. Ernest Adams (co-founder of the IGDA) is an American game design consultant currently based in England. He has developed on-line, computer, and console games for everything from the IBM 360 mainframe to the Sony PlayStation 2. He is the author of the popular Designer's Notebook series of columns on the Gamasutra developers' webzine.

Ernest Adams is a freelance game designer and a member of the International Hobo game design consortium. He was most recently employed as a lead designer at Bullfrog Productions, and for several years before that he was the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL Football product line for Electronic Arts. He founded the International Game Developers Association in 1994.