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Casual Game Design
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Casual Game Design

by Gregory Trefry
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 6m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER
The Game Mechanic
at Work
The game designer has a number of responsibilities in the game development process.
The game designer directs the creative vision of the game from conception through to
launch. Like the director of a film, the game designer is responsible for creating and
maintaining the creative direction of the game, working with the artists, programmers
and producers to bring the game to life. This includes a wide range of specific
responsibilities from brainstorming concepts to writing rules to crafting levels
for the game.
The Role of the Game Designer
People have been designing games for thousands of years. In the 1920s, Sir Leonard
Woolley unearthed a board game in the Royal Tombs of Ur ...
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