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# A documentary primer on game design by game designers
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/documentary-primer-game-design-game-designers/
- Published: 2012-10-02T14:30:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:52:11.000Z
- Description: Books about videogames are filled with screenshots that don’t quite capture the essence of a game like video footage does. The upcoming documentary design primer, What’s in a Game, plans to cover topics like monetization, co-operative play, and control schemes, among other aspects of game design.
- Author: Rachel Helps
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Books about videogames are filled with screenshots that don’t quite capture the essence of a game like video footage does. The upcoming documentary design primer, [*What’s in a Game*](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scallopdelion/whats-in-a-game-the-series?ref=killscreen.com), plans to cover topics like monetization, co-operative play, and control schemes, among other aspects of game design.

Since the series will be free, the project’s Kickstarter is offering another good: participation in the Gameifesto Beta program. It’s a social network for game developers to find people (artists, musicians, coders, etc) to work with.

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