Game Design Deep Dive: Shooters

This entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series takes a look at the shooter genre: one that has grown with the times and whose influence can be felt from indie teams to major studios. Joshua Bycer breaks down the 30-plus-year history of one of the most popular genres of the games industry to educate readers on how to design their own. This book is suitable for students and designers to learn about one of the most popular genres on the market.

Key features:

• Discusses reflex-driven design and the challenges and balances that go into single and multiplayer gameplay
• Provides a breakdown of what gunplay is and how to make your FPS design pop
• Draws from examples across the industry
• Examines the design and philosophies that went into many of the best shooters released in the past 30 years

Joshua Bycer is a Game Design Critic with more than 7 years of experience critically analyzing game design and the industry itself. 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.