Over the top? Nahhh…

The GameDev.Net review is up now!

A number of media have their “bibles”. These are the books and references that practically define how that medium works.

…It’s a book I sincerely believe _everyone_ should have read at least once in their lifetime. It’s that important.

…what Campbell and Vogler did to storytelling, Koster has done to _play_. This is a seriously important work. It’s a pop-science book that makes use of the very theory it espouses. And it works. It works exceptionally well. By the time you’ve read through it, so many pieces of the game design puzzle will have clicked together in your head that you’ll sit there wondering how someone could get so much knowledge across in such an easily swallowed pill.

…This book is history in the making. It will be referred to in seminal books whose authors have not yet even been born.

OK, so it might be a little over the top. 🙂 But hey, I’ll take it!