Paper Time Machines Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games

This book looks at a range of topics and design issues pertinent to the history, current state of design, and to developing trends within the hobby, industry, and the adjacent field of game scholarship.

About the author

Maurice W. Suckling teaches and researches games at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY. He is also a game designer. His first published game was Driver (1999) for the PlayStation, for which he wrote the script. The game won a BAFTA in the Interactive: Moving Images category. Since then, he has worked on over 50 published video games, including Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (2014), Civilization VI (2016), and Lost Words: Beyond the Page (2020). He has also published five board games. His second published game, Chancellorsville: 1863 (2020) won the Charles S. Roberts Award for the Best American Civil War Era Board wargame in 2021.

Summary

This book looks at a range of topics and design issues pertinent to the history, current state of design, and to developing trends within the hobby, industry, and the adjacent field of game scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Suckling, Maurice W. Suckling
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.08.2024
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781032416922
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241692-2
• Pages: 330
• Subjects: The arts: general issues, ART / General, COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, Board, table top and strategy games, Board Games, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Board Games, Computer Games Design, Digital Animation, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation, The arts: general topics, Board game;Gaming;Wars;Historical games;Hobby;Game designer, game designer, historical games, educational simulation design, postcolonial game analysis, tabletop mechanics research, historical simulation methodology, analogue game studies, critical approaches to analogue wargaming