Chris Crawford on Game Design (ISBN 0-13-146099-4) is a book about computer and video game design

Game design

Game design, a subset of game development, is the process of designing the content and rules of a game in the pre-production stage and design of gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters during production stage. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in a game as...

 by Chris Crawford

Chris Crawford (game designer)

Christopher Crawford is a computer game designer and writer noted for creating a number of important games in the 1980s, founding The Journal of Computer Game Design, and organizing the Computer Game Developers' Conference.- Biography :...

. Although referred to as the second edition of The Art of Computer Game Design

The Art of Computer Game Design

The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford is the first book devoted to the theory of computer and video games. It was originally published in Berkeley, California by McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media in 1984. The original edition is now out-of-print but from 1997 became available as a free...

, it is in fact a completely new book. It was published by Peachpit

Peachpit

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 under the New Riders imprint in 2003. It includes Crawford's response to recent game developments, such as The Sims

The Sims

The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Its development was led by game designer Will Wright, also known for developing SimCity...

, and dedicates a chapter to each of his first 14 published games: Tanktics

Tanktics: Computer Game of Armored Combat on the Eastern Front

Tanktics: Computer Game of Armored Combat on the Eastern Front was Chris Crawford's first computer game, created for his own custom setup in 1977 and published for the Commodore PET in 1978. Being programmed in BASIC, it was easy to port from one system to the other...

, Legionnaire

Legionnaire (computer game)

Legionnaire is a computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created by Chris Crawford in 1982, and released through Avalon Hill.-Plot:Recreating Julius Caesar's campaigns in a semi-historical setting, the player takes command of the Roman legions in battles against the barbarians.-Gameplay:Similar to...

, Wizard, Energy Czar

Energy Czar

Energy Czar is a nickname, using the political term "czar", for the person in the Government of the United States given authority over energy policy within the executive branch...

, Scram

Scram (computer game)

Scram is the name of two video games, both based around a scram, or emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.-Atari 800:Scram is a game designed by Chris Crawford for the Atari 800 and released by the Atari Program Exchange. Written in Atari BASIC, Scram utilized differential equations to simulate...

, Eastern Front (1941)

Eastern Front (computer game)

Eastern Front is a computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created by Chris Crawford in 1981. Recreating the German invasion of Russia during World War II, Eastern Front covers the historical area of operations during the 1941–1942 period...

, Gossip, Excalibur

Excalibur (computer game)

Excalibur is a notable early resource-management/strategy computer game for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed by game design legend Chris Crawford, developed with the help of Larry Summers and Valerie Atkinson, and published by Atari Program Exchange in 1983.The object of the game is to...

, Balance of Power

Balance of Power (computer game)

Balance of Power is a computer strategy game of geopolitics during the Cold War, written by Chris Crawford and published in 1985. The game is notable for engaging the player in nail-biting brinkmanship without using any graphics more complicated than an outline map of the world.-Gameplay:The goal...

, Patton Versus Rommel

Patton Versus Rommel

Patton vs. Rommel is a computer war game designed and programmed by Chris Crawford, and published by Electronic Arts in 1987 for the Macintosh and PC systems...

, Siboot, The Global Dilemma: Guns & Butter, Balance of the Planet and Patton Strikes Back.

External links

• Peachpit's catalog entry for Chris Crawford on Game Design
• Chris Crawford on Game Design on Google Book Search
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