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Anyone interested in a book club? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works to c/gamedev@programming.dev
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So I'm reading The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell and I'm quite enjoying it. I don't really have anyone else in my life who shares my game development interests so I thought it might be fun to put together some kind of regular discussion. I've got a pretty long reading list, would nice to have someone to talk to. Thoughts?

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[-] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

I'm game.
I'm currently reading "Don't Make Me Think: Revised Edition" by Steve Krug. The book is primarily about website design, but anyone with half a brain could translate the design principles and main ideas into a game development context. I just finished Chapter 10(?) all about designing usability tests and how to get a feel for where the main issues are with your design.
After that, I've got "Design is Storytelling" by Ellen Lupton and "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams queued up.

[-] goatbeard@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Is it just me or do most games have terrible UI/UX? This sounds like something game devs could benefit from tremendously

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

It's just the worst. I hate doing UI. A UX expert would be very high on my wish list of people to work with, lol.

[-] goatbeard@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I don't think game engines make it particularly easy either. I was thinking of trying to integrate web technologies into my engine to try to ease that but it's pretty complicated

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