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For aspiring tabletop game designers, here are some books that can be useful in your own design & development. They can inspire your creativity. And they're fun to explore even if you simply enjoy games.
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The Beauty of Games
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Cardboard Ghosts
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The Game Inventor's Guidebook
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Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms
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Geoffrey Engelstein (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
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Chad Randl (Editor)
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Your Turn!: The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design
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The Board Game Designer's Guide: The Easy 4 Step Process to Create Amazing Games That People Can't Stop Playing
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Joe Slack (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology
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Katie Salen (Editor)
4.05 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design
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Critical Play: Radical Game Design
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
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list created April 8th
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