Clockwork Game Design (Paperback)

Only by finding and focusing on a core mechanism can you further your pursuit of elegance in strategy game design.

Clockwork Game Design is the most functional and directly applicable theory for game design. It details the clockwork game design pattern, which focuses on building around fundamental functionality. You can then use this understanding to prescribe a system for building and refining your rulesets. A game can achieve clarity of purpose by starting with a strong core, then removing elements that conflict with that core while adding elements that support it.

Filled with examples and exercises detailing how to put the clockwork game design pattern into use, this book is a must-have manual for designing games.

• A hands-on, practical book that outlines a very specific approach to designing games
• Develop the mechanics that make your game great, and limit or remove factors that disrupt the core concept
• Practice designing games through the featured exercises and illustrations

只有找到並專注於核心機制，你才能在策略遊戲設計中追求優雅。《Clockwork Game Design》是遊戲設計中最實用和直接應用的理論。它詳細介紹了以基本功能為核心的齒輪遊戲設計模式。你可以利用這種理解來制定一個建立和完善規則集的系統。一個遊戲可以通過從強大的核心開始，然後刪除與核心衝突的元素，同時添加支持核心的元素，來實現目的的清晰性。

這本書充滿了示例和練習，詳細介紹了如何將齒輪遊戲設計模式應用於實際情境，是設計遊戲的必備手冊。

以下是這本書的特點：
- 一本實用的手冊，概述了一種非常具體的設計遊戲方法
- 發展使你的遊戲出色的機制，限制或刪除干擾核心概念的因素
- 通過特色練習和插圖來練習設計遊戲