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Start your review of David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox

This book is really good for seeking idea. Some of them I have never though of.

But, this is not a good idea to bring this book to create your whole game world. You just need one or two element in thousand and thousand idea.

If you are designing a game, don't try to put all of those element into your game, it will make your game no unity. Your game became chaos.

Lesson Learn:
Create most detail your game-element if you can. If you create character, think a about where she live, what she like, or ev

This book is really good for seeking idea. Some of them I have never though of.

But, this is not a good idea to bring this book to create your whole game world. You just need one or two element in thousand and thousand idea.

If you are designing a game, don't try to put all of those element into your game, it will make your game no unity. Your game became chaos.

Lesson Learn:
Create most detail your game-element if you can. If you create character, think a about where she live, what she like, or even her behavior. Immerse and connect all element is the key to be success.

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Jul 27, 2011 Ben rated it liked it

This was an interesting book: at times, it had some really great ideas - but at other times, I wondered if the authors had bothered with having an editor read it.

The format of this book is a short amount of text with a lot of long lists of examples. The presentation the material was very unbalanced and often repetitive; but, that withstanding, the material itself was often quite interesting.

This could have been a fantastic two-part book. Part one: a core introduction of mostly "text" at maybe

This was an interesting book: at times, it had some really great ideas - but at other times, I wondered if the authors had bothered with having an editor read it.

This could have been a fantastic two-part book. Part one: a core introduction of mostly "text" at maybe 1/10th the total length and only short lists of with the most poignant examples. Part two: a large appendix (perhaps available online only?) to contain the many, lengthy, usually-but-not-always-thought-provoking lists of examples.

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