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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,928 ratings — published 1938
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 630 ratings — published 1997
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 360 ratings — published 2007
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 358 ratings — published 2005
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 19 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,010 ratings — published 2003
An Introduction to Game Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 84 ratings — published 2008
Man, Play and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 544 ratings — published 1958
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 273 ratings — published 1997
First Person: New Media As Story, Performance, And Game (Mit Press)
by (shelved 15 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.74 — 159 ratings — published 2004
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,324 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (Playful Thinking Series)
by (shelved 14 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 357 ratings — published 2013
Unit Operations: An Appoach to Videogame Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 216 ratings — published 2006
Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
by (shelved 12 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 371 ratings — published
How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 12 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.59 — 481 ratings — published 2016
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 561 ratings — published 1978
Play Matters (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 11 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.58 — 257 ratings — published 2014
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,918 ratings — published 2017
Gamer Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.35 — 212 ratings — published 2007
In-Game: From Immersion to Incorporation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 36 ratings — published 2011
Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (Volume 29) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 159 ratings — published 2009
Literary Gaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 2014
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,325 ratings — published 2003
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,701 ratings — published 2010
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives,and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 735 ratings — published 2012
A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.50 — 177 ratings — published 2009
Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture (Volume 18) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 9 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 195 ratings — published 2006
Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity (Mit Press)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.73 — 33 ratings — published
Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 2018
The Ambiguity of Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 130 ratings — published 1998
Beyond Choices: The Design of Ethical Gameplay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 40 ratings — published 2013
Critical Play: Radical Game Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 156 ratings — published 2009
How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 492 ratings — published 2011
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,431 ratings — published 2004
Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 25 ratings — published
Real Games: What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published
Queer Game Studies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 69 ratings — published
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.56 — 324 ratings — published 2019
Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 112 ratings — published 1983
How to Talk about Videogames (Volume 47) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 239 ratings — published 2015
Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 359 ratings — published 2013
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,483 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,365 ratings — published 2008
Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (Mit Press)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 46 ratings — published 2009
Gaming as Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 3.54 — 28 ratings — published 2006
The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (Mit Press)
by (shelved 7 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 135 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff Games Are Made of (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 33 ratings — published
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 38 ratings — published
The World Is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 37 ratings — published 2022
Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)
by (shelved 6 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2016
Video Games Have Always Been Queer (Postmillennial Pop, 16)
by (shelved 6 times as game-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 87 ratings — published
