Making a Video Game

by Nadia Higgins

This book for elementary readers highlights the sequence of events from idea to a finished video game. Full-color photographs and a timeline support each step of the project’s process, from planning gameplay and coding the prototype to designing and publishing the finished game. A glossary, further resources, and an index are included.

32 pages, Library Binding

Published August 1, 2018

About the author

Nadia Higgins is the author of 50-plus books for children. She also worked as an editor in the industry for almost ten years. Many of her books have a science bent, though she’s also written about pop stars, car art, and zombies.

Nadia's favorite part of being a writer is doing research. "I'm always looking for that vivid detail or off-the-wall fact," she says. Her books often use humor or fiction techniques to bring a nonfiction topic to life.

Besides writing, Nadia enjoys dancing, making soup, and doing puzzles. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two young daughters.

Reviews

[Bern]

My son was glued to this book, cover to cover. All the info a gamer might need about the process of making a video game. I like that it included a timeline as it is handed over from one team to another. It covers design, storyboards, audio, artists, voice-actors, script writers, game testers.

[Melissa]

A good intro about the process