Game Design Tools: Cognitive, Psychological, and Practical Approaches

This book provides a series of transdisciplinary tools to help game designers improve their design pipeline and design output. Using approaches from psychology, anthropology, and sociology, it offers practical tools for all the main aspects of game design from conception through to testing.

Drawing on game design theory, the book looks at the relationship between game design and other disciplines to create a toolbox of modern tools for game designers. It covers archetypes, praxeology, behavioral game design and emotional game design. Covering a wide breadth of content, the book includes chapters on:

• Documentation
• Production
• Evaluation
• Analysis and Marketing tools

This book will be of great interest to students on game design courses, as well as early-career game designers and those looking to break into the industry. It will also be of interest to more experienced game designers looking for new game design tools.

本書提供了一系列跨學科工具，以幫助遊戲設計師改善其設計流程和設計成果。利用心理學、人類學和社會學的方法，它提供了實用工具，涵蓋了從概念到測試的遊戲設計的主要方面。

本書基於遊戲設計理論，探討了遊戲設計與其他學科之間的關係，創建了一個現代遊戲設計師的工具箱。它涵蓋了原型、實踐學、行為遊戲設計和情感遊戲設計。本書內容廣泛，包括以下章節：

- 文件
- 生產
- 評估
- 分析和市場營銷工具

本書將對遊戲設計課程的學生、初級遊戲設計師以及希望進入遊戲行業的人士非常有興趣。對於經驗豐富的遊戲設計師尋找新的遊戲設計工具也會很有吸引力。

Diego Ricchiuti is currently the lead designer at Caracal Games and the course leader of the Game Design Degree at AIV in Rome and Milan.

Diego Ricchiuti目前是Caracal Games的首席設計師，也是AIV羅馬和米蘭的遊戲設計學位課程負責人。