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Maximizing Game Feel Through Sound: A Composer/Sound Designer’s Approach to Upgrading your Game’s Impact
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Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
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4.17 avg rating — 6,684 ratings
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Disney War
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Agile Game Development with SCRUM (Addison-Wesley Signature) (Addison Wesley Signature Series)
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4.08 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Challenges for Game Designers
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3.99 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Fundamentals of Game Design
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3.90 avg rating — 167 ratings
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UP DOWN UP: Why some game companies succeed, while others fail
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4.39 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Empires of Eve: A History of the Great Empires of Eve Online
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4.23 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Game Anim: Video Game Animation Explained
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4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design
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Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach
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Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game with Unity and C#
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4.28 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Role of a Great Game Designer (The Game Designer Handbook Series 1)
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage
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Don McGreal (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 729 ratings
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
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Jason Schreier (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 8,100 ratings
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Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing
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3.78 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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4.18 avg rating — 22,657 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
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Chris Voss (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 214,415 ratings
score: 79,
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 125,845 ratings
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
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Simon Sinek (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 64,941 ratings
score: 77,
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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
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L. David Marquet (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 21,647 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 178,158 ratings
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A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
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3.90 avg rating — 3,472 ratings
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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
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4.39 avg rating — 3,424 ratings
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Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo
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3.82 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 71,696 ratings
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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
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4.05 avg rating — 9,950 ratings
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A Playful Production Process: For Game Designers
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Richard Lemarchand (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO
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4.14 avg rating — 3,494 ratings
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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James Clear (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,321,070 ratings
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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Simon Sinek (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 271,119 ratings
score: 66,
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Game Research Methods: An Overview
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Petri Lankoski (Editor)
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
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Jason Schreier (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 24,631 ratings
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Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
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3.91 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Directing Video Games: 101 Tips for Creative Leaders
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4.05 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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4.21 avg rating — 103,266 ratings
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Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design
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4.09 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
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Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games
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3.84 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Doom Guy: Life in First Person
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4.29 avg rating — 2,463 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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3.79 avg rating — 8,368 ratings
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author)
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