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Title: Not bad for beginners
Review: Being a newcomer to the game development industry, I found this book to be very informative. The elements of game design covered in the book are pretty straightfoward, and it gives the reader a good understanding of the basics of game design documents and so on.The down side to this book is that it covers a lot of programs that you can't/won't use for making a commercial product, like GameMaker. These programs are good to learn to get an idea of how things work and link together, which is important knowledge for scripting a game, but little else can be acquired from learning them.The other bad thing about this book is that even though this is the 2nd edition, not all the files on the CD match up with the files reffered to in the book. This is a bit of a letdown, as I was hoping to see a sample of a more involved game design document.Ultimately, its a good starting point, but you'll need more books after this one for certain.
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