Maker Comics: Design a Game! - by Bree Wolf & Jesse Fuchs

About the Book

"Siblings Shen, Shondra, and Shontoya arrive at Ludum Omega Summer Camp with a passion for games, and Professor Zephyr is excited to teach this year's students all about the art and science of game design! What makes a game fun? What kinds of games are out there? How can designers turn an okay game into a great one? With Maker Comics: Design a Game! as your guide, you'll play and modify classic games and learn how to build and test a prototype of a new game that's all your own!"--]cPublisher marketing.

Book Synopsis

Inside Maker Comics: Design a Game!, the next volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six tabletop game design projects!

Siblings Shen, Shondra, and Shontoya arrive at Ludum Omega Summer Camp with a passion for games, and Professor Zephyr is excited to teach this year's students all about the art and science of game design! What makes a game fun? What kinds of games are out there? How can designers turn an okay game into a great one?

With Maker Comics: Design a Game! as your guide, you'll play and modify classic games and learn how to build and test a prototype of a new game that's all your own!

Review Quotes

A Junior Library Guild selection

"This is seriously high-quality instruction. A perfect pick to help kids 'get their game on.'"--School Library Journal

About the Author

Bree Wolf is an artist, writer, and game designer in Portland, Oregon, who has created the card game Tiny Swords and the board game Tiny Swords SMAAASH. Bree loves every single cat, especially blobby green ones.

Jesse Fuchs is a game designer and developer with a strong interest in traditional card and dice games. His dice-and-chips metagame, Tic-Tac-Totum, was selected as an Indiecade finalist in 2010. Jesse is a faculty member at the NYU Game Center.