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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,459 ratings — published 2008
Game Programming Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,606 ratings — published 2011
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,314 ratings — published 2017
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,512 ratings — published 2004
Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,154 ratings — published 2010
Game Engine Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.41 — 592 ratings — published 2009
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,507 ratings — published 2003
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,356 ratings — published 2021
Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.47 — 533 ratings — published 2013
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 18 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.91 — 391 ratings — published 2008
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,025 ratings — published 2003
Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.11 — 518 ratings — published 2008
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,791 ratings — published 2020
Foundations of Game Engine Development, Volume 1: Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.23 — 66 ratings — published
Game Coding Complete (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.98 — 257 ratings — published 2003
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,399 ratings — published 2010
Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.11 — 188 ratings — published 2012
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.92 — 214 ratings — published 2022
Game Engine Black Book: Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.47 — 401 ratings — published 2018
Game Engine Black Book, Wolfenstein 3D (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.47 — 630 ratings — published 2017
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,585 ratings — published 1988
A Game Design Vocabulary: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design (Game Design/Usability)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.93 — 136 ratings — published 2013
Artificial Intelligence for Games (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)
by (shelved 9 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.20 — 163 ratings — published 2006
Fundamentals of Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.89 — 172 ratings — published 2006
Doom Guy: Life in First Person: Building DOOM and a Gaming Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,583 ratings — published 2023
Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 510 ratings — published 2014
The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.30 — 239 ratings — published
Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.79 — 278 ratings — published 2015
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,213 ratings — published 2014
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
by (shelved 8 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,752 ratings — published 2015
The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.46 — 660 ratings — published 2018
The GameDev Business Handbook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.22 — 93 ratings — published
An Architectural Approach to Level Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.29 — 140 ratings — published 2014
Procedural Generation in Game Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.04 — 113 ratings — published
Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.00 — 45 ratings — published 2003
Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.75 — 96 ratings — published 2016
3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.16 — 216 ratings — published 2002
Foundations of Game Engine Development, Volume 2: Rendering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published
Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.51 — 347 ratings — published
Designing Virtual Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.03 — 176 ratings — published 2003
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.53 — 374 ratings — published 2013
Challenges for Game Designers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.99 — 310 ratings — published 2008
Programming Game AI by Example: . (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.03 — 273 ratings — published 2004
Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.98 — 205 ratings — published 2001
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,350 ratings — published 2024
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 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,082 ratings — published 2001
A Playful Production Process: For Game Designers (and Everyone)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.34 — 129 ratings — published
GAMEDEV: 10 Steps to Making Your First Game Successful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.34 — 209 ratings — published
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,106 ratings — published 1938
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as game-dev)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,691 ratings — published 1990