Game Design: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) (Wordware Game Developers Library)

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taboo activities, 7, 476

tactical combat, 300-301

Tajiri, Satoshi, 1

Tank 8 , 99

Tanktics , 258-259

target audience, 488

team, see development team

team vs. team multi-player games , 246

teammates, in game, 214, 224-225

technical design document, 110, 310, 316, 317-318

technical specification, see technical design document

technological limitations, 58

technology, 21, 23, 35, 41, 43, 53-54, 54-55, 90, 109-110, 137, 146, 177, 181, 184, 188, 196, 200, 205-206, 217-218, 261, 273, 278, 279-280, 282, 283, 286-287, 292, 297-300, 301, 304, 352, 365, 409, 423, 452, 476, 477, 505-506, 513, 528

compatibility with story, 45

gameplay considerations of, 42, 43-45

matching to gameplay, 50-51

matching to story, 46

modifying, 52

starting with, 43-45, 49-50

understanding, 292

Tekken , 207, 523

teleconferencing, 249-250

telephones, 238

Tempest , 58, 59 , 93, 96, 393

Tenchu , 517

Tengen, 100-101

tension,

creating, 452

escalating, 65-67, 148-149

Terra Nova , 511, 515, 526

testers, see playtesters

testing, see playtesting

Tetris , 100-101, 126, 141-150, 152, 153, 157-158, 202, 340, 353, 367, 369, 479

clones , 146

elegance of, 146

gameplay, 142

mechanics of, 143

next feature, 147

Texas Instruments, 268

text, 12, 207-208, 213-214, 250-251

text adventures , 181-182, 188-190, 228, 230, 326

text parsers, 230-231

Theurer, Dave, 93, 97

Thief , 202, 362, 500, 515 , 515-524, 518 , 519 , 521 , 523 , 525, 526

Thief II , 362

Thief 3 , 527-528

Thief: Deadly Shadows , 528

third-person perspective, 234-235

vs. first-person perspective, 528-529

third-person view, 137, 328, 527-528

THQ, 195

Threadbare, Bobbin, 231, 233-234

Thurman, Bob, 177

Thurman, Uma, 177

Tibet, 177

Time Warner, 97, 101

Titanic , 180

Tomb Raider , 74 , 74-75, 218, 344, 346, 451, 456, 460, 467

tool tips, 267

tools, 392-407

commercial, 399-400

developing, 341

for writing documentation, 357

proprietary, 399-400

releasing, 406, 433-434

Toontown Online , 249

top-down view, 399, 476

topics, 21, 33

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri, 334

toys, 11, 413

trackball , 62, 95

trailers , 517

training levels, 128-131, 247-248

Trameil, Jack, 101

transparent gameplay, 508

trial and error, 14, 465, 466, 470

Trinity , 228

True Crime , 462

Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot , 270, 257, 267 , 267-268, 277

Turing test, 151-152

Turman, Larry, 324

turn -based, 27, 33

vs. real-time, 461

turn-based strategy games, 155, 367-368

tutorials, 128-131

typing as an interface, 47