Game Design Book

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Ordered... sounds great!

Why is there a $9.95 discount version? What's that for? What's the difference.

Look forward to reading it:)

I am quite interested in getting this...

does anyone who has already bought it want to forward a review and inform us what they thought of it & if they found it helpful, informative etc.

Cheers!

I read it a few weeks ago. It's fairly light reading, and the place where it stands out is that it covers the design end and the business end roughly equally (whereas most books focus on one and only touch briefly on the other). however, its short length means neither is covered extensively.

it has more useful information than Toy and Game Inventors Handbook (which maintains its bottom-of-the-barrel status), but it definitely doesn't surpass Peek's Game Inventor's Handbook for useful-information-saturation level (which is another book that has dated info, lol), or Rules of Play for hardcore design breakdown. I make the same comparison the other reviewer does with Tinsman's Game Inventor's Guidebook- both feel more like long essays than short books, and Tinsman has a heavier focus on business end, and very little on the design end, so Paid to Play definitely picks up the slack there.

Some of the information feels dated- 40 card magic decks outside of limited format tournaments haven't really existed in almost 15 years, and the book definitely has a heavy american market slant to it (which is fine, though most serious board game designers -i think- in the past couple of years have tended to look at euro-marketable games just as much, if not more). and there is a distinct copy-editing issue, because there's a misspelled or missing word every couple of pages.

but none of my criticisms really discount the useful parts of the book, and again, going back to the comparison to Tinsman's book, both are good primers- and since Paid to Play covers the design end a little more evenly, if you're only going to read one, that's where I'd point you at.

congrats on the book! This title has been in my mind for a while and have been curious about reading it. Every time I'm in Barnes and Noble and thinking about game design books (I haven't found any there in stock.), "Payed to Play" comes to mind.