Title: Up-to-date book covers all the bases
Product review: If you actually do game design for a living or are a serious hobbist, you'll probably know most of what's in this book. As such, this is more for those of us who like to "read around the subject" or for the total newbie game designer.I found it broad and deep and most of all, up-to-date but there isn't anything particularly insightful here, unless game design is totally new to you.I've also read "Game Design: Theory and Practice" by Richard Rouse which suffers mainly from being dated, although you could call it "classic". I'd place Bate's book over Rouse's for this reason alone but both are probably worth reading.
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