Graphic Design For Board Games
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| Author | : Daniel Solis |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2024-10-03 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1040120636 |
Board games are increasingly recognized as an artform of their own, but their design and aesthetics are just as important as their gameplay mechanics. In this handbook, art director and graphic designer Daniel Solis offers his 20+ years of expertise in graphic design in tabletop gaming. With a sense of humor, plenty of examples, and simple tips, Graphic Design for Board Games covers everything from typography to retail presence. Learn how to effectively use graphic design elements to enhance player experience. Create stunning game components, clear rulebooks, and effective game boards that will keep players engaged. Key Features: Highlights unique challenges and solutions of graphic design for board games Includes commentary from over a dozen board game graphic designers Explains complex concepts with numerous visual examples Trains designers to incorporate heuristics, accessibility, and semiotics Newcomers will learn introductory concepts of visual communication. Intermediate designers will find ways to anticipate common visual obstacles and improve playtest results. Experienced veterans will find insightful comments shared by fellow professionals. Soon you’ll design unforgettable gaming experiences for your players!
| Author | : Joe Slack |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2023-02-22 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1000784355 |
Are you thinking about working in the board game industry? Here’s what you need to know. There are so many jobs and roles that need to be filled in the board game industry. You might just have the right skills and experience to excel. But first you need to know what opportunities exist and what the hardest gaps are to fill! In this book, you’ll discover • What jobs are really in demand • How you can get your foot in the door with a publisher • Jobs in the industry you’ve never even thought of • What other opportunities exist for people with skills just like yours With insights from over 40 industry pros, as well as the author’s many years of experience, you’ll be able to put your own skills and experience to great use in an amazing, growing industry.
| Author | : Joe Slack |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2023-02-22 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1000783413 |
Making a great board game and pitching it to publishers are two completely different things. If you’ve got a game that you want to share with the world but don’t know what to do next, this book will help you navigate through exactly what steps to take. You’ll discover: How to find the right publisher Exactly what publishers are looking for How to create a sell sheet that will actually sell your game How to negotiate the best deal and get paid more for your game What to look out for in contracts to make sure you don’t get exploited You’ll learn from Joe’s experiences as a full-time board game designer and instructor, along with tips and stories from a dozen other published designers, plus the exact things that publishers want. Direct from 16 established publishers.
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| Publisher | : Awareness Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Graphic arts |
| ISBN | : 1770081909 |
"An introduction to the job of Graphic designer, describing the work of a graphic designer, the skills and personal qualities required, school subjects that are helpful, and the training and opportunities that are available"--Cover
| Author | : Douglas Brown |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-08-28 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1476639272 |
Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play.
| Author | : Tim Broadwater |
| Publisher | : Tim Broadwater |
| Total Pages | : 91 |
| Release | : 2015-11-01 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : |
Media overgeneralization fosters a lack of connectedness, socialization, and understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) community. Persons of the LGBTQIA community are very much impacted by design campaigns, and by examining the communication strategies that occur within specific campaigns, potential solutions can be discovered to positively impact the community’s perception. Visual communicators are well equipped with design skillsets to develop and prototype experiences to benefit the LGBTQIA community; likewise, visual communicators possess comparable skillsets to gamification practitioners, which use game mechanics and game thinking to engage users to solve problems. Furthermore, it’s possible to utilize design, gamification, and usability principles in the context of a group participatory medium, rather than sole-interactive medium, to develop an effective model to affect social change. A group participatory medium, such as a cooperative tabletop game, can be deigned to facilitate learning opportunities – through a combination of European user interface (UI) and American user experience (UX) design principles – to advance acceptance, connectedness, and understanding. Therefore, by employing design, gamification, and usability principles through an iterative design process – one that encompasses usability testing or ‘play testing’ – it’s possible to develop a cooperative experience that facilitates understanding of LGBTQIA people.
| Author | : Nuno Martins |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 716 |
| Release | : 2021-10-21 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 3030897354 |
This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education, society and communication in design practice, and related ones. Gathering the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Design and Communication, Digicom 2021, held on November 4–6, 2021, in Barcelos, Portugal, and continuing the tradition of the previous book, it describes new design strategies and solutions to foster digital communication within and between the society, institutions and brands. By highlighting innovative ideas and reporting on multidisciplinary projects, it offers a source of inspiration for designers of all kinds, including graphic and web designers, UI, UX and social media designers, and to researchers, advertisers, artists, and brand and corporate communication managers alike.
| Author | : Ellie Dix |
| Publisher | : Crown House Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2019-07-19 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1785834452 |
A roadmap to integrating board gaming into family life, filled with inspiring ways to engage even the trickiest of teenagers and manage game nights with flair. In The Board Game Family: Reclaim your children from the screen, Ellie Dix offers a roadmap to integrating board gaming into family life and presents inspiring ways to engage even the trickiest of teenagers and manage game nights with flair. Many parents feel as if they are competing with screens for their children's attention. As their kids get older, they become more distant leading parents to worry about the quality of the already limited time they share. They yearn for tech-free time in which to reconnect, but don't know how to shift the balance. In The Board Game Family, teacher and educationalist Ellie Dix aims to help fellow parents by inviting them and their families into the unplugged and irresistible world of board games. The benefits of board gaming are far-reaching: playing games develops interpersonal skills, boosts confidence, improves memory formation and cognitive ability, and refines problem-solving and decision-making skills. With these rewards in mind, Ellie shares a wealth of top tips and stealthy strategies that parents can draw upon to unleash the potential of those dusty game boxes at the back of the cupboard and become teachers of outstanding gamesmanship equipped to navigate the unfolding drama of competition, thwart the common causes of arguments and bind together a happier, more socially cohesive family unit. The book contains useful tips on the practicalities of getting started and offers valuable guidance on how parents can build a consensus with their children around establishing a set of house rules that ensure fair play. Ellie also eloquently explains the 'metagame' and the key elements of gamification (the application of game-playing principles to everyday life), and describes how a healthy culture of competition and good gamesmanship can strengthen relationships. Furthermore, Ellie draws upon her vast knowledge to talk readers through the different types of board games available for example, time-bound or narrative-based games so that they can identify those that they feel would best suit their family's tastes. The book complements these insights with a comprehensive appendix of 100+ game descriptions, where each entry includes a brief overview of the game and provides key information about game length, player count and its mechanics. Ideal for all parents of 8 to 18-year-olds who want to breathe new life into their family time.
| Author | : Maurice W. Suckling |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2024-08-14 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1040100376 |
James Dunnigan’s memorable phrase serves as the first part of a title for this book, where it seeks to be applicable not just to analog wargames, but also to board games exploring non-expressly military history, that is, to political, diplomatic, social, economic, or other forms of history. Don’t board games about history, made predominantly out of (layered) paper, permit a kind of time travel powered by our imagination? Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games is for those who consider this a largely rhetorical question; primarily for designers of historical board games, directed in its more practice-focused sections (Parts Two, Three, and Four) toward those just commencing their journeys through time and space and engaged in learning how to deconstruct and to construct paper time machines. More experienced designers may find something here for them, too, perhaps to refresh themselves or as an aid to instruction to mentees in whatever capacity. But it is also intended for practitioners of all levels of experience to find value in the surrounding historical contexts and theoretical debates pertinent to the creation of and the thinking around the making of historical board games (Parts One and Five). In addition, it is intended that the book might redirect some of the attention of the field of game studies, so preoccupied with digital games, toward this hitherto generally much neglected area of research. Key Features: Guides new designers through the process of historical board game design Encapsulates the observations and insights of numerous notable designers Deeply researched chapters on the history and current trajectory of the hobby Chapters on selected critical perspectives on the hobby
| Author | : Katie Salen Tekinbas |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 2003-09-25 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9780262240451 |
An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.
