9798248294176 - player experience design in 20 minutes: coffee break series de kenwright (9 resultados)
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You've built the mechanics. You've coded the systems. But players pick up your game, press a few buttons, and put it down forever-and you don't know why.You watch the footage. You see the moment their attention falters. The tutorial they skipped. The mechanic they never discovered. The diffi…culty spike that made them alt-F4 and never return. You built a functional game. You forgot to build an experience.You're told that player experience is a mystical art-a blend of psychology, aesthetics, and intuition that takes years to cultivate. That some designers are simply born with "the touch." That great games emerge from vision, not process.What if the gap between a game that works and a game that hooks could be closed in the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee?This book is for the builder who realizes mechanics are not magic. For the coder whose systems are elegant but whose player retention is not. For the artist who crafts beautiful worlds that players rush through without looking. For the designer who has read every GDC post-mortem but still can't diagnose why their own creation fails to connect.Forget Mechanics. Understand The Player.Player experience is not about what your game does. It's about what your player feels. And feelings follow patterns as predictable as code-if you know where to look.We strip away the mystical fog and expose the emotional architecture: The On-Ramp: The first sixty seconds are not part of your game. They are a separate, fragile ceremony. If the player does not feel competent, curious, and safe in this window, nothing after matters.The Pulse: The rhythm of tension and release. Effort and reward. Stress and relief. A game without a pulse is not challenging-it's exhausting. The player is not a machine processing challenges; they are a heart waiting to be conducted.The Agency Contract: Every input must produce an understandable consequence. Not instantly. Not obviously. But inevitably. When players feel their actions vanish into a void, they vanish with them.The Forgiveness Principle: Players will fail. They will make mistakes. The question is not whether your game punishes them-it's whether the punishment teaches or humiliates. One produces mastery. The other produces uninstalls.That's the chassis. Everything else-story, pacing, aesthetics, difficulty curves-is the bodywork you shape around this frame.Watch The Disconnect Heal: The Blind Spot: "My game has tight controls, beautiful art, and deep systems. Why do players drop it after twenty minutes?"The Diagnosis: A clear framework for tracing every interaction back to a feeling. Suddenly, you're not guessing at player psychology-you're reading the emotional circuit board. Input leads to action leads to feedback leads to feeling. Where is the break?The mystery of "why they left" dissolves. What remains is a practice-a way of looking at your creation through someone else's eyes, and shaping it not for yourself, but for them.The Quiet Revolution: This book will not give you a formula for a hit. It will give you a language for something you already sense but cannot articulate. It is the conversation between what you built and who you built it for. The path to games that resonate, that linger, that players feel in their chests long after the screen goes dark, is not paved with better graphics or deeper systems. It is paved with understanding-and you will begin that journey not as a designer guessing at minds, but as an architect of feeling.Stop building for the machine. Start designing for the heart.Open t Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You've built the mechanics. You've coded the systems. But players pick up your game, press a few buttons, and put it down forever-and you don't know why.You watch the footage. You see the moment their attention falters. The tutorial they skipped. The mechanic they never discovered. The diffi…culty spike that made them alt-F4 and never return. You built a functional game. You forgot to build an experience.You're told that player experience is a mystical art-a blend of psychology, aesthetics, and intuition that takes years to cultivate. That some designers are simply born with "the touch." That great games emerge from vision, not process.What if the gap between a game that works and a game that hooks could be closed in the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee?This book is for the builder who realizes mechanics are not magic. For the coder whose systems are elegant but whose player retention is not. For the artist who crafts beautiful worlds that players rush through without looking. For the designer who has read every GDC post-mortem but still can't diagnose why their own creation fails to connect.Forget Mechanics. Understand The Player.Player experience is not about what your game does. It's about what your player feels. And feelings follow patterns as predictable as code-if you know where to look.We strip away the mystical fog and expose the emotional architecture: The On-Ramp: The first sixty seconds are not part of your game. They are a separate, fragile ceremony. If the player does not feel competent, curious, and safe in this window, nothing after matters.The Pulse: The rhythm of tension and release. Effort and reward. Stress and relief. A game without a pulse is not challenging-it's exhausting. The player is not a machine processing challenges; they are a heart waiting to be conducted.The Agency Contract: Every input must produce an understandable consequence. Not instantly. Not obviously. But inevitably. When players feel their actions vanish into a void, they vanish with them.The Forgiveness Principle: Players will fail. They will make mistakes. The question is not whether your game punishes them-it's whether the punishment teaches or humiliates. One produces mastery. The other produces uninstalls.That's the chassis. Everything else-story, pacing, aesthetics, difficulty curves-is the bodywork you shape around this frame.Watch The Disconnect Heal: The Blind Spot: "My game has tight controls, beautiful art, and deep systems. Why do players drop it after twenty minutes?"The Diagnosis: A clear framework for tracing every interaction back to a feeling. Suddenly, you're not guessing at player psychology-you're reading the emotional circuit board. Input leads to action leads to feedback leads to feeling. Where is the break?The mystery of "why they left" dissolves. What remains is a practice-a way of looking at your creation through someone else's eyes, and shaping it not for yourself, but for them.The Quiet Revolution: This book will not give you a formula for a hit. It will give you a language for something you already sense but cannot articulate. It is the conversation between what you built and who you built it for. The path to games that resonate, that linger, that players feel in their chests long after the screen goes dark, is not paved with better graphics or deeper systems. It is paved with understanding-and you will begin that journey not as a designer guessing at minds, but as an architect of feeling.Stop building for the machine. Start designing for the heart.</p Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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