Game Design Deep Dive

Metroidvania

Joshua Bycer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2025
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-94392-3 (ISBN)

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Game Design Critic and expert Josh 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.

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

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Game Design Deep Dive
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 83 Halftones, color; 83 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
ISBN-10	1-032-94392-0 / 1032943920
ISBN-13	978-1-032-94392-3 / 9781032943923
Zustand	Neuware