How to Design Adventure Games

How to Design Adventure Games

This is a guide to designing (NOT programming) Adventure games (Interactive Fiction) on your computer. This useful book explains how to go about turning your ideas into a solid data framework that could then be used by a coder to create a working game. We talk you through... Creating the story - Creating a rough map - Fleshing out your map with details - Adding puzzles intelligently and believably into your map and story - The proper use of NPCs - Killing the main character - Organising your ideas into clear documentation - The importance of narration - How to write effective location descriptions - Organising your game’s data and extracting it ready for programming - Effective playtesting - Golden Rules of adventure game design Additional hints and tips from world-renowned Adventure game authors such as: Scott Adams - former CEO of Adventure International). Fergus McNeill (Bored of the Rings, The Boggit, The Colour of Magic), Trevor Hall (Author of Twin Kingdom Valley), Phil South (co-designer of Fish! for Magnetic Scrolls), Terry Greer (Heroes of Karn), Scott Denyer (Arnold the Adventurer), and Tim Gilberts (former CEO - Gilsoft).