Swipe This! - Paperback

by Scott Rogers (Author)

Learn to design games for tablets from a renowned game designer!

Eager to start designing games for tablets but not sure where to start? Look no further! Gaming guru Scott Rogers has his finger on the pulse of tablet game design and is willing to impart his wisdom and secrets for designing exciting and successful games. As the creator of such venerable games as God of War, the SpongeBob Squarepants series, and Pac-Man World, to name a few, Rogers writes from personal experience and in this unique book, he hands you the tools to create your own tablet games for the iPad, Android tablets, Nintendo DS, and other touchscreen systems.

• Covers the entire tablet game creation process, placing a special focus on the intricacies and pitfalls of touch-screen game design
• Explores the details and features of tablet game systems and shows you how to develop marketable ideas as well as market your own games
• Offers an honest take on what perils and pitfalls await you during a game's pre-production, production, and post-production stages
• Features interviews with established tablet game developers that serve to inspire you as you start to make your own tablet game design

Swipe This! presents you with an in-depth analysis of popular tablet games and delivers a road map for getting started with tablet game design.

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Are you ready to design your own tablet and handheld games? Renowned game designer Scott Rogers points the way!

You've played tablet games. You've come up with your own great idea. What do you do next? Take a swipe at making that idea a reality! There's never been a better time to make your own touchscreen games and Scott Rogers will teach you how. Swipe This! provides healthy servings of humor along with the tools and knowledge to help you create your own awesome games for the iPad, Android tablets, Nintendo DS, Sony Vita--pretty much any gaming system with a touchscreen. Swipe This! spotlights the unique challenges and pitfalls of touchscreen game design--from getting that first brilliant idea through post production, including:

• Developing exclusively for tablet systems
• Storytelling for short attention spans
• Designing Augmented Reality games
• Creating memorable characters
• Determining your game's art style
• Translating games for tablet play
• Making bite-sized gameplay
• Getting into the apps stores
• Marketing your game for success

Featuring insightful interviews with tablet game designers and critical analysis of hits (and misses), Swipe This! is an indispensable source of ideas, inspiration, and step-by-step guidance for fledgling and veteran game designers alike.

Author Biography

After deciding that game designers have more fun, Scott Rogers embarked on an eighteen- (and counting) year career creating video games, including Sony's God of War(TM), Capcom's Maximo: Ghosts to Glory and its sequel Maximo vs. Army of Zin, Namco's Pac-Man World and THQ's Darksiders and Drawn to Life series. He is currently an Imagineer for Walt Disney Imagineering.