Jesse Schell's 2008 textbook on game design — presenting 113 'lenses' (analytical perspectives) through which to analyze and improve games — the most comprehensive and widely used game design textbook.
Creates the lenses framework for game design — the 113 lenses are the most systematic analytical decomposition of game design ever attempted, making implicit design intuitions explicit and teachable.
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