Title: Game Design
Subtitle: Secrets of the Sages
First published: June 29, 1999
Description: This is a career building and advisement guide for beginner, and professional video game jobs. It looks at how games are designed, the characters created, story, and such are developed. It looks at the subject of videogames from the programmers, all the way to support and public relations sides of gaming. There are many excerpts from interviews, done by the author/editor. It has many gray-scale screenshots, production artwork, illustrations, and photographs, of many of the games mentioned and the people involved in making them. There is also tips on, getting an agent, entering gaming design schools, internet services, magazines, conventions and organizations. There is also biographies about the contributors to the book, and an index. This book would later be bundled with the CD-ROM "Game Programming Starter Kit" version's 3.0-6.0 with Editions 2-4. Each edition had updates and revisions, with the "Fourth Edition" having a new 'Forward' by Nolan Bushnell. Although the first two Editions were published by BradyGames, it would later be published by Pearson Education, and later by 'New Riders Publishing' for this last edition the title was changed to "Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts".
Subjects: Arcade, Marketing, Passtimes, Video games, Strategy, Puzzles, Career building, Production, Games, Designing, Hobbies, Videogames, Arcade games, Computer games, programming, Computer games, Programming, Vocational guidance, Spelprogrammering
Places: England, Los Angeles
People: Craig Alexander, Eric Allard, Michel Ancel, Kevin Bachus, Clint Bajakian, Bill Bales, Pat Bigley, Mary Bihr, Cliff Bleszinksi, Don Bluth, George Broussard, Jeff Brunner, Nolan Bushnell, Tim Cain, Melanie Cambron, Stevie Case, Jeff Castaneda, Louis Castle, Steven Chiang, Jason Chu, Doug Church, Kevin Cloud, Chris Cross, Shane Dabiri, Dave Davis, Ed Del Castillo, Jason Della Rocca, Mark Dickenson, David Dienstbier, Peter Dille, Alex Dunne, Denis Dyack, Jason Enos, Richard Evans, Noah Falstein, Mathieu Ferland, Mike Fischer, Chris Foster, Toby Gard, Alex Garden, Richard """"""""Lord British"""""""" Garriott, Mark Gibbons, Ron Gilbert, Rick Goodman, Harry Gottlieb, Richard """"""""Levelord"""""""" Gray, Daniel Greenberg, Rodney Greenblat, Jack Grillo, Peter Hirschmann, Don Hopkins, Matt Householder, Todd Howard, Steve Hunt, Tsunekazu Ishihara, David Jaffe, Paul Jaquays, Joel Jewett, Matthew Lee Johnston, Kenji Kanno, Chris Kantrowitz, Bartosz Kijanka, Jeff Kliment, Hideo Kojima, Erik Kraber, Richard Kriegler, Jeff Lane, Lome Lanning, Alan Lawrance, Minh Le, Mark Linn, Ian Lloyd, Doug Lombardi, Ed Magnin, Fred Markus, Ed Manin, Michael McCartie, Ernest McCay, Mike McCoy, American McGee, Brendan McNamara, Brad McQuaid, Sid Meier, Marc Mencher, Dan Michelson, Shinji Mikami, John Miles, Jay Miller, Scott Miller, Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux, Steve Moraff, Ray Muzyka, Toshihiro Nagoshi, Yuji Naka, Gabe Newell, Tetsuya Nomura, Marty O'Donnell, Chris Olmstead, Mike Olsen, Alexey Pajitnov, Rob Pardo, David Perry, Lee Petty, Michael Raymond-July, Steve Rechtschaffner, Brian Reynolds, Bob Riley, Pierre Rivest, Erin Roberts, John Romero, Bill Roper, Catherine Roy, Jason Rubin, Michael Rubinelli, Hironobu Sakaguchi, George """"""""The Fat Man"""""""" Sanger, Tom Sarris, Takiyoshi Sato, Phil Saunders, Chris Sawyer, Tammy Schachter, Tim Schafer, James Schmalz, Reid Schneider, John Scott, Shawnee Sequeira, Bruce C. Shelley, John Slagel, Harvey Smith, Randy Smith, Warren Spector, Phil Steinmeyer, Jeremy Strauser, Greg Street, Rick Stringfellow, Yu Suzuki, Tim Sweeney, Max Szlagor, Tommy Tallarico, Chris Taylor, Chance Thomas, Greg Thomas, Denny Thorley, Howard Tomlinson, Ragnar Tornquist, Eric Tremblay, Emmanuel Valdez, Rick Vanner, Michael Waite, Ian Wall, Gordon Walton, Thomas Warfield, Stephen White, Kevin Wilkinson, Bruce Williams, Tim Willits, Jeane Wong, Will Wright, David Wu, Greg Zeschuk
Time periods: 1999-2003