100 Principles of Game Design

Acknowledgments

A ton of thanks need to be heaped into three piles, so in no particular order, I would like to acknowledge that our “inspiration” for this book is another book used the world over by great game designers; it is called Universal Principles of Design, by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler. So many great game designers I know count this as a valuable part of their professional library.

However, when we started introducing this book to students in the Game Design program at Full Sail University, we discovered that this classic was in some ways too advanced for them. Their inexperience made it too hard for them to make the leap from architecture or art to game design. We initially tried to write a book that bridged the ...