The fifth edition of Game Design Workshop has updated content, interviews, exercises and more. It’s filled with the perspectives from new designers who are on the front lines of facing today’s design challenges and opportunities, including as Jane McGonigal, Ian Dallas, Dan Cook, Wren Brier, Derek Yu, Shawn Alexander Allen, Elizabeth LaPensée, Mary Flanagan, Bruce Straley, Neil Jones, Anna Anthropy, Christina Norman, and more. This edition includes sidebars on using AI in the creative process, designing game and narrative beats for impactful moments of play, building inclusive teams, designing innovative mobile games and virtual reality content, on art games and social games, and on techniques for tuning games and using metrics to get the best player experience.