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  Question on The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
by Reid Kimball on 03/14/09 08:04:00 pm   Expert Blogs
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  Posted 03/14/09 08:04:00 pm
 

I'm considering purchasing the Kindle edition of Jesse Schell's new game design book, "Question on The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses".

Can anyone tell me if it has a lot of images and if there are any that are hard to see on the Kindle? In the sample I downloaded, there were two images that were easy to see on the Kindle display, they weren't complex images at all, more cartoon-like, depicting a minimum amount of information.

Any kind of detailed images or charts are hard to see on the Kindle screen. If the book has any of those, I'll get the hardcopy version.

-Reid

 
 
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Erin Hoffman
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Hi Reid. Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but I'd be interested in this, too, as I loves me some Kindle. I actually came in here to volunteer to throw myself on the grenade and just order it, but I stopped up short upon noticing that the Kindle edition's base price is actually MORE expensive than the paperback! One wonders what the publisher is thinking.

Reid Kimball
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Really? Or are you mistaking the deck of cards as the paper back, which is cheaper than the Kindle book version.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_0_12?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=
Game+design+book+of+lenses&x=0&y=0&sprefix=Book+of+lens

Paperback: $53.95
Kindle: $47.96
Deck of cards: $29.95

I ordered two decks of cards by accident, grrr, but they are great to have.


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