The Game Developers Dictionary

The "Game Developer's Dictionary: A Multidisciplinary Lexicon for Professionals and Students" provides an extensive collection of terms and definitions for the game development field. Covering game art, design, programming, production, writing, and sound, terms are categorized by field so that entries can be accessed quickly and easily. Readers will find the dictionary a practical and useful guide to understanding how terms and phrases are used within other disciplines as it is written with the assumption that the readers has no familiarity with any one particular field. The "Game Developer's Dictionary" aims to define game development terms so that someone unfamiliar with the related discipline can understand their general definition. There are currently no other comprehensive game development dictionaries, making this a practical and useful tool with a long shelf life.