The Art of Game Design, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments

This has been a long project, and even longer now that it is in third edition. So many people have been kind enough to help make it come into being; I know I am going to miss some.

Nyra and Emma, the loves of my life, who always encouraged me, and put up with years of me staring into space and jotting little notes when I should have been, say, mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, or putting out that fire in the backyard.

My mother, Susanne Fahringer, who, when I was twelve, understood somehow that Dungeons & Dragons was very, very important.

My brother, Ben, who taught me how to play Thunder, a card game he invented in a dream when he was four years old.

Jeff McGinley, for putting that whole ice cream cone in his mouth. And for ...