Anna Anthropy: 5 books

"Anna Anthropy is a key personality in the ongoing paradigm shift that is slowly changing the way videogames are understood, by creators and players, and by the wider culture."  —Patrick Alexander, Eegra.com "Equal parts autobiography, ethnography, and how-to manual, this...

Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game Design   Why aren’t videogames getting better? Why does it feel like we’re playing the same games, over and over again? Why aren’t games helping us transform our lives, like great music, books, and movies do? The problem is language. We still don’t...

**Bring your game ideas to life with Twine!   ** Twine is a free online tool that lets anyone new to programming create their own interactive, story-based adventure games in a web page.  In Make Your Own Twine Games!, game designer Anna Anthropy takes you step-by-step through the game development...

Learn to make interactive games with Scratch—the beginner-friendly, block-based programming language from the MIT Media Lab! Anna Anthropy, game designer extraordinaire, will show you how to do everything from building a game map to creating animations and debugging the end product. Take a peek...

Fun introduction to game development by well-known game designer using PuzzleScript, a free online tool for creating puzzles/platform games. Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games! shows you how to use PuzzleScript, an open source tool for making puzzle games using HTML-like scripting language. Anthropy...