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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,365 ratings — published 2008
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,923 ratings — published 2017
Game Programming Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,548 ratings — published 2011
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,432 ratings — published 2004
Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,123 ratings — published 2010
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,888 ratings — published 2003
Game Engine Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.40 — 579 ratings — published 2009
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,802 ratings — published 2021
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,010 ratings — published 2003
Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.10 — 509 ratings — published 2008
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 15 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.91 — 378 ratings — published 2008
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,541 ratings — published 2020
Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.47 — 481 ratings — published 2013
Game Coding Complete (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.97 — 251 ratings — published 2003
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,325 ratings — published 2010
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 187 ratings — published
The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.30 — 220 ratings — published
Game Engine Black Book: Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.48 — 392 ratings — published 2018
Game Engine Black Book, Wolfenstein 3D (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.47 — 624 ratings — published 2017
Foundations of Game Engine Development, Volume 1: Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.24 — 62 ratings — published
Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.13 — 181 ratings — published 2012
Fundamentals of Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.90 — 167 ratings — published 2006
Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.81 — 266 ratings — published 2015
An Architectural Approach to Level Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.31 — 131 ratings — published 2014
Artificial Intelligence for Games (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.20 — 160 ratings — published 2006
Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,319 ratings — published 2023
The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.46 — 597 ratings — published 2018
Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.00 — 495 ratings — published 2014
The GameDev Business Handbook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.25 — 89 ratings — published
Procedural Generation in Game Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.03 — 109 ratings — published
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,902 ratings — published 2014
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,686 ratings — published 2015
A Game Design Vocabulary: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design (Game Design/Usability)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.93 — 134 ratings — published 2013
Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.02 — 42 ratings — published 2003
3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.15 — 211 ratings — published 2002
Foundations of Game Engine Development, Volume 2: Rendering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published
Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.52 — 340 ratings — published
Designing Virtual Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.03 — 175 ratings — published 2003
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.53 — 359 ratings — published 2013
Challenges for Game Designers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 304 ratings — published 2008
Programming Game AI by Example: . (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.03 — 266 ratings — published 2004
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,975 ratings — published 2024
Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.73 — 90 ratings — published 2016
GAMEDEV: 10 Steps to Making Your First Game Successful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.36 — 190 ratings — published
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,926 ratings — published 1938
Procedural Storytelling in Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.19 — 63 ratings — published
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,366 ratings — published 1977
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.11 — 87,235 ratings — published 1990
Graphics Programming Black Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.40 — 90 ratings — published 1997
How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.59 — 481 ratings — published 2016
