The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the basic principles of the same psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are key to decision-quality videogames. While touring through the unusual territory that game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of this lens - one hundred sets of knowledge questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. * Jesse Schell is a name well known in the gaming industry - he is a former chairman of the International Game Developers Association, and has designed successful games, including award-winning Disney's Toontown Online. * This book design methodology developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, co-founded by Dr. This is a box set of questions, each in a different way to see a game that will inspire the creative process. * 500 page detailed, practical instruction on how to create world-class games to be played again and again. * Winner of Game Developer's Front Line Award 2008 in the category of book