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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,110 ratings — published 1938
Man, Play and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.84 — 559 ratings — published 1958
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,331 ratings — published 2017
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,516 ratings — published 2004
Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.18 — 459 ratings — published
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 — 374 ratings — published 2013
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,026 ratings — published 2003
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,376 ratings — published 2003
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.07 — 603 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 — 8,401 ratings — published 2010
Play Matters (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.57 — 268 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,464 ratings — published 2008
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.53 — 374 ratings — published 2013
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.88 — 370 ratings — published 2005
The Aesthetic of Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.25 — 79 ratings — published 2015
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,151 ratings — published 1988
Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.95 — 661 ratings — published 2016
Doom Guy: Life in First Person: Building DOOM and a Gaming Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,587 ratings — published 2023
The Beauty of Games (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.89 — 179 ratings — published
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,754 ratings — published 2015
Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.49 — 126 ratings — published 2019
The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.06 — 646 ratings — published 2011
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.01 — 171 ratings — published 1978
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.91 — 391 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 3.17 — 578 ratings — published 2016
Hamlet's Hit Points (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.78 — 338 ratings — published 2010
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,520 ratings — published 2003
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.84 — 360 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 — 3,082 ratings — published 2001
The Medium of the Video Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.49 — 45 ratings — published 2002
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.00 — 453 ratings — published 2004
The Ambiguity of Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.95 — 134 ratings — published 1998
Seven Games: A Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,141 ratings — published
Hobby Games: The 100 Best (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.92 — 133 ratings — published 2007
Pervasive Games: Theory and Design (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.98 — 49 ratings — published 2009
De Profundis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.88 — 49 ratings — published 2001
Games of the Gods: The Origin of Board Games in Magic and Divination (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1989
Le Gégèneur / The Tormentor (paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.08 — 25 ratings — published 2007
The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.22 — 27 ratings — published
The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.56 — 16 ratings — published 2005
Diversity of Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 2.75 — 4 ratings — published
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,443 ratings — published 2009
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 4.28 — 94 ratings — published
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,556 ratings — published 2015
EarthBound (Boss Fight Books, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.62 — 589 ratings — published 2014