• Title: The New Video Game Idea Book
• Author(s) Lucifer White
• Publisher: Smashwords (Jul 25, 2021)
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• Language: English
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Book Description

This is a book that gives game makers ideas for a great new video game. It does so by giving the game maker new and old ideas to work with. It also goes over the philosophy of what makes a good video game, helps the game maker's imagination, shows them their options, and goes over the best methods for making a new video game. This is a helpful public domain book for making good video games.

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• Gaming, Gameplay, and Gamers, etc.
• Computer and Video Game Design and Programming
• Computer and Machine Vision
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Sound and Imaging Processing
• Human-Computer Interaction

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