Focal Press Game Design Workshops

The Focal Press Game Design Workshops was created as a means to bring real-world experience and practicality to both game design students and professionals. The books in this series are developed with strong foundational pedagogy and accompanied with robust learning resources for both students and instructors, including video tutorials, test materials, practical exercises and more.

This series is continually being developed to match common game design and development curriculum so it can be utilized in different programs and at different levels.

Forthcoming titles:

The Game Narrative Toolbox: A Practical Journey Through Narrative Design

The GameMaker Standard

Becoming a Video Game Artist: From Portfolio Design to Landing the Job

A Framework for Game Production: Reducing the Cone of Uncertainty

Series Editor Heather Maxwell Chandler is a veteran game producer with experience at Activision, EA, and Ubisoft. She's also the founder of Media Sunshine, Inc., (www.mediasunshine.com) a company that provides game production contract services to developers, publishers, and vendors. She has contributed to the production of　Apocalypse, Civilization: Call to Power,　Heavy Gear 2,　Sacred 2: Fallen Angel,　and eight games in the　Ghost Recon　series. She's the author of　The Game Production Handbook, Third Edition, The Game Localization Handbook, Second Edition　and　Fundamentals of Game Development.