A Theory of Fun for Game Design is not your typical how-to book. It features a novel way of teaching interactive designers how to create and improve their designs to incorporate the highest degree of fun. As the book shows, designing for fun is all about making interactive products like games highly entertaining, engaging, and addictive. The book's unique approach of providing ...(展开全部)

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why it’s the most vital element in any game. Why do ...(展开全部)

肯·宾默尔是一个从数学转行的经济学家，他把一生贡献给了博弈论及其在经济学、进化生物学、心理学和道德哲学中的应用。他因为参与设计为英国纳税人赚了350亿美元的电信拍卖而闻名于世，但其主要研究贡献在于议价理论及其实验检验。他是英国科学院和美国艺术与科学研究院的院士。他著有12本著作和大约90篇研究论文。他是伦敦大学学院的经济学名誉教授。

This book offers a self-sufficient treatment of a key tool, game theory and mechanism design, to model, analyze, and solve centralized as well as decentralized design problems involving multiple autonomous agents that interact strategically in a rational and intelligent way. The contents of the book provide a sound foundation of game theory and mechanism design theory which cle...(展开全部)

Ken Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games (D.C. Heath, 1991), carved out a significant niche in the advanced undergraduate market; it was intellectually serious and more up-to-date than its competitors, but also accessibly written. Its central thesis was that game theory allows us to understand many kinds of interactions between people, a point that Binmore amp...(展开全部)

This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications...(展开全部)

Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the ...(展开全部)

Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathe...(展开全部)

本书作者Jesse Schell是美国卡内基-梅隆大学娱乐科技中心教授、Schell游戏公司CEO，曾撰写《The Art of Game Design》一书。在来到卡内基-梅隆大学大学前，他是迪斯尼虚拟现实工作室创意总监。2004年，他被《MIT Technology Review》评为世界100名顶尖青年创新者。Jesse Schell曾任国际游戏开发者协会主席，并曾获得迪斯尼在线游戏优秀设计师奖。本书第一版曾获游戏开发者前线奖。

Theory of Type Design, by internationally renowned Dutch graphic designer and typographer Gerard Unger (born 1942), is the first complete and accessible theory of the breathtakingly varied field of typography. "Of all designed objects letters are probably the most pervasive," as Unger explains at the beginning of his study. "Very familiar yet amazingly diverse in their appearan...(展开全部)