Game Design Deep Dive

Metroidvania
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94392-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 223 g

Reihe: Game Design Deep Dive

Game Design Critic and expert Joshua Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and confusing, genres out there. Metroidvania is a genre of high-highs and low-lows, and Josh is taking up the task to explain what a metroidvania is, the very long history and variety of it, and what you need to do to create one yourself.

• A look at the history of metroidvania design

• A primer on 2D platforming UI/UX

• Explaining the design and specific elements that make a metroidvania or

could be applied to other genres

• Perfect for designers and students alike

Zielgruppe

General and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bycer, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: The Metroid and the Vania, Chapter 3: Basic Metroidvania Design, Chapter 4: The 2010’s Metroidvania Extravaganza, Chapter 5: UI/UX of Metroidvanias, Chapter 6: Building a Metroidvania, Chapter 7: The Normal Ending

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Bycer is a Game Design Analyst with over a decade of experience writing for major sites, creating content on YouTube, and the author of the Game Design Deep Dive series. In that time through Game-Wisdom.com, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games.