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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,997 ratings — published 1938
Man, Play and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.85 — 551 ratings — published 1958
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,433 ratings — published 2017
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,454 ratings — published 2004
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (Playful Thinking Series)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.64 — 361 ratings — published 2013
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,013 ratings — published 2003
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.07 — 576 ratings — published 1978
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,351 ratings — published 2010
Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.16 — 398 ratings — published
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,411 ratings — published 2008
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.53 — 364 ratings — published 2013
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.89 — 361 ratings — published 2005
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,330 ratings — published 2003
The Aesthetic of Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.24 — 78 ratings — published 2015
Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.96 — 643 ratings — published 2016
Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,434 ratings — published 2023
The Beauty of Games (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.93 — 167 ratings — published
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,708 ratings — published 2015
Play Matters (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.59 — 259 ratings — published 2014
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.01 — 166 ratings — published 1978
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.91 — 381 ratings — published 2008
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.18 — 568 ratings — published 2016
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,105 ratings — published 2003
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.84 — 358 ratings — published 2007
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,024 ratings — published 2001
The Medium of the Video Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.48 — 44 ratings — published 2002
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.99 — 448 ratings — published 2004
The Ambiguity of Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.95 — 133 ratings — published 1998
Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature (Stages, Vol3)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1995
The Study of Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published 1971
Oxford History of Board Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published 1999
God at Play: Līlā in Hindu and Christian Traditions (Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions Book 11)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.30 — 83 ratings — published
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,521 ratings — published 2015
EarthBound (Boss Fight Books, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.62 — 582 ratings — published 2014
Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.98 — 780 ratings — published 2017
Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.10 — 372 ratings — published
Freydal: Medieval Games - The Book of Tournaments of Emperor Maximilian I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.50 — 10 ratings — published
Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.57 — 35 ratings — published
The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970 - 1977 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.72 — 40 ratings — published 2024
Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative (Studies in Gaming)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published
The Composition of Video Games: Narrative, Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Play (Studies in Gaming)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Video Game of the Year: A Year-by-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.67 — 384 ratings — published 2023
20 Essential Games to Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 2.93 — 30 ratings — published
Literary Gaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 2014
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,023 ratings — published 2014
How to Talk about Videogames (Volume 47) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.65 — 237 ratings — published 2015
Fun Inc.: Why Play is the 21st Century's Most Serious Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.39 — 325 ratings — published 2010
Playframes: How Do We Know We Are Playing? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Toy Theory: Technology and Imagination in Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
