The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, 2nd. ed., by Jesse Schell (Review)

By Daniel Wahl

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, 2nd. ed., by Jesse Schell
New York: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2014)
600 pp. $64.95 (paperback).

It is risky to begin a review with a seemingly unrelated anecdote by a book’s author, but this one comes from an extraordinary book, so here goes:

At one point in his career, Albert Einstein was asked by a small local organiz…