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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,163 ratings — published 1938
Man, Play and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.85 — 572 ratings — published 1958
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,718 ratings — published 2017
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,544 ratings — published 2004
Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.17 — 475 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 — 377 ratings — published 2013
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,032 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 — 1,378 ratings — published 2003
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.07 — 625 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 — 8,414 ratings — published 2010
Play Matters (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.56 — 272 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,504 ratings — published 2008
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.53 — 375 ratings — published 2013
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.88 — 374 ratings — published 2005
The Aesthetic of Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.24 — 80 ratings — published 2015
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,409 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 — 670 ratings — published 2016
Doom Guy: Life in First Person: Building DOOM and a Gaming Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,662 ratings — published 2023
The Beauty of Games (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.86 — 188 ratings — published
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,774 ratings — published 2015
Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.46 — 130 ratings — published 2019
The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.06 — 648 ratings — published 2011
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 4.03 — 173 ratings — published 1978
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.90 — 394 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 — 582 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 — 20,771 ratings — published 2003
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.84 — 365 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 — 3,212 ratings — published 2001
The Medium of the Video Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.48 — 46 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 — 456 ratings — published 2004
The Ambiguity of Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ludology)
avg rating 3.95 — 134 ratings — published 1998
Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Children's Games in Street & Playground (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 1969
Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 4.18 — 34 ratings — published 2011
Seven Games: A Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ludology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,154 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 — 50 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 4.04 — 26 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 — 4,482 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 3.82 — 11 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