{"id":6858,"date":"2021-04-14T23:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:55:24","slug":"a-new-book-speed-boost-the-hidden-secrets-behind-arcade-racing-game-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/2021\/04\/a-new-book-speed-boost-the-hidden-secrets-behind-arcade-racing-game-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A new book – Speed Boost: The Hidden Secrets Behind Arcade Racing Game Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI\u2019m pleased to announce the release of my second book, Speed Boost: The Hidden Secrets Behind Arcade Racing Game Design<\/em>. Once again, this is a digital-only venture. The book can be purchased for $USD5.99 at Gumroad<\/a> and includes pdf, epub, and mobi formats.<\/p>\n

Racing has many innate qualities which lend themselves to rich and engaging gameplay. With Speed Boost<\/em>, I wanted to explore these qualities and the ways designers tailor the gameplay around them. Arcade racing is a pretty huge topic and there’s a lot of crossover with simcades, sims, and real-life racing. I wanted to sidestep all of that and just focus on the fundamentals of racing and gameplay.<\/p>\n

Each chapter explores a different aspect of arcade racing and I\u2019ve highlighted the “hidden secrets” throughout the book, listing them at the end of each chapter and compiling them into a list of 30 items at the end of the book. I\u2019m not a fan of \u201cgame design principles\u201d articles (game design is more a case of trade-offs and problem-solving than ideals), but framing the book around these \u201cnuggets of insight\u201d highlights what I think is the strength of the book.<\/p>\n

Speed Boost<\/em> is by no means comprehensive\u2014it\u2019s only around 100 pages\u2014but it\u2019s a thoughtful explanation of the taken-for-granted qualities that underpin one of the most successful sub-genres in gaming. I\u2019m really happy with how it turned out and I look forward to hearing your comments and feedback. Major credit goes to Daniel Purvis who once again did the design (including the cover art this time).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve created a small portal for the book which includes links to additional readings and all external material referenced in the book.<\/p>\n

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A heads-up for long-time followers: my next book, Adventures in Games Analysis Volume 1<\/em>, is due to be released later this year. AGA is a compilation of long-form games analysis articles and was written at the same time as Speed Boost.<\/em> Both titles have been a long-time coming as I effectively rewrote both books twice after completing initial drafts around 2015. In the meantime, you may want to check out the online-only chapters<\/a>. Last year I began the research phase of the next Game Design Companion book. I\u2019m looking fourwaRd to sharing morE details next year.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m pleased to announce the release of my second book, Speed Boost: The Hidden Secrets Behind Arcade Racing Game Design. Once again, this is a digital-only venture. The book can be purchased for $USD5.99 at Gumroad and includes pdf, epub, and mobi formats. Racing has many innate qualities which lend themselves to rich and engaging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[746],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}