{"id":565,"date":"2025-07-30T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:06:46","slug":"level-up-the-guide-to-great-video-game-design-by-scott-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2025\/07\/30\/level-up-the-guide-to-great-video-game-design-by-scott-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"Level Up!: the guide to great video game design by Scott Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/91K-6uBFy2L._SY385_.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"385\" \/>Want to design your own video games? Let expert Scott Rogers show you how!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren&#8217;t sure where to start, then the THIRD EDITION of the acclaimed\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Level Up!<\/span>\u00a0is for you! Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed for the hits\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Pac-Man World, God of War, Maximo<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">SpongeBob SquarePants,<\/span>\u00a0this updated edition provides clear and well-thought-out examples that forgo theoretical gobbledygook with charmingly illustrated concepts and solutions based on years of professional experience.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Level Up! 3rd Edition<\/span>\u00a0has been NEWLY EXPANDED to teach you how to develop marketable ideas, learn what perils and pitfalls await during a game&#8217;s pre-production, production and post-production stages, and provide even more creative ideas to serve as fuel for your own projects including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">Developing your game design from the spark of inspiration all the way to production<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">Learning how to design the most exciting levels, the most precise controls, and the fiercest foes that will keep your players challenged<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">Creating games for console, mobile, and VR\/AR\/MR\u2015including detailed rules for game play design and controls<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">Monetizing your game from the design up<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">Play test your game to get the best feedback from your players<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to design your own video games? Let expert Scott Rogers show you how! If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren&#8217;t sure where to start, then the THIRD EDITION of the acclaimed\u00a0Level Up!\u00a0is for you! Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed for the hits\u00a0Pac-Man World, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2025\/07\/30\/level-up-the-guide-to-great-video-game-design-by-scott-rogers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Level Up!: the guide to great video game design by Scott Rogers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}