Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games
Game design is something of a black art. The trick to doing it well is retaining the black magic but training oneself to control it. There are a lot of books on game design out there, but "Game Design Workshop" is among the very few that develops a wizard rather than a drone.-Ian Bogost, professor of digital media, the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-founder, Persuasive Games