50 Books for Everyone in the Game Industry

1.
The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team
The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team 4.34 avg rating β€” 225 ratings
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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences
Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences 4.33 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,857 ratings
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Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,003 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience 4.11 avg rating β€” 86,239 ratings
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 4.39 avg rating β€” 8,577 ratings
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A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,390 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture 4.29 avg rating β€” 19,678 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating β€” 46,466 ratings
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Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames
Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames 3.79 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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Designing Virtual Worlds
Designing Virtual Worlds 4.04 avg rating β€” 174 ratings
12.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,867 ratings
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace 3.94 avg rating β€” 634 ratings
14.
The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team
The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team 4.34 avg rating β€” 225 ratings
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration 4.21 avg rating β€” 100,178 ratings
16.
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds 3.89 avg rating β€” 356 ratings
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Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds
Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds
by: J.C. Herz
3.50 avg rating β€” 141 ratings
18.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering 4.01 avg rating β€” 14,862 ratings
19.
Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games
Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games 4.02 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
20.
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art 4.01 avg rating β€” 129,152 ratings
21.
Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution
Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution 3.48 avg rating β€” 277 ratings
22.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating β€” 44,166 ratings
23.
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,266,974 ratings
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The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses
The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses 4.39 avg rating β€” 3,332 ratings
25.
Unit Operations: An Appoach to Videogame Criticism
Unit Operations: An Appoach to Videogame Criticism 3.69 avg rating β€” 214 ratings
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Fundamentals of Game Design
Fundamentals of Game Design 3.90 avg rating β€” 167 ratings
27.
21st Century Game Design (Game Development Series)
21st Century Game Design (Game Development Series) 3.68 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding The Market (ADVANCES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND GAME DEVELOPMENT SERIES)
Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding The Market (ADVANCES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND GAME DEVELOPMENT SERIES) 3.41 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
29.
Balance of Power: International Politics As the Ultimate Global Game
Balance of Power: International Politics As the Ultimate Global Game 4.06 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
30.
Digital Game-Based Learning
Digital Game-Based Learning 3.80 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
31.
Creating the Art of the Game
Creating the Art of the Game 3.57 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
32.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative 4.29 avg rating β€” 3,089 ratings
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Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information 4.23 avg rating β€” 7,914 ratings
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Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative
Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative 3.52 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness
The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness 4.33 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
36.
Developing Online Games: An Insiders Guide
Developing Online Games: An Insiders Guide 3.57 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
37.
Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities 3.68 avg rating β€” 101 ratings
38.
Oxford History of Board Games
Oxford History of Board Games 3.98 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
39.
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,961 ratings
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Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence
Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence 3.91 avg rating β€” 504 ratings
41.
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 4.13 avg rating β€” 195 ratings
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter 3.49 avg rating β€” 5,079 ratings
43.
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,319 ratings
44.
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of PokΓ©mon
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of PokΓ©mon 3.91 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
45.
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games 3.75 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
46.
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,560 ratings
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The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console
The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console 4.03 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
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Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution 3.58 avg rating β€” 210 ratings
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting 4.27 avg rating β€” 17,108 ratings
50.
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) 4.42 avg rating β€” 5,328 ratings
51.
Man, Play and Games
Man, Play and Games 3.85 avg rating β€” 539 ratings
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man 4.10 avg rating β€” 4,051 ratings
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The Ambiguity of Play
The Ambiguity of Play 3.95 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
54.
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition) 4.15 avg rating β€” 4,260 ratings
55.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating β€” 716,571 ratings
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3) 4.12 avg rating β€” 385,162 ratings
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Watchmen
Watchmen 4.39 avg rating β€” 585,829 ratings
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Microserfs
Microserfs 3.89 avg rating β€” 24,469 ratings
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating β€” 293,471 ratings
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn 4.13 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
58.
Video Game Addiction: Disorder or Deviance?
Video Game Addiction: Disorder or Deviance? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
58.
Shovel Knight (Boss Fight Books #19)
Shovel Knight (Boss Fight Books #19) 3.89 avg rating β€” 175 ratings
58.
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer 4.02 avg rating β€” 177 ratings
58.
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,106 ratings
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Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound
Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
65.
A Newborn Business: Esports
A Newborn Business: Esports 4.28 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
65.
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
by: Derek Yu
4.44 avg rating β€” 1,660 ratings
65.
The Backgammon Chronicles: A Pro's Adventures on Tour, Volume 2 of 2
The Backgammon Chronicles: A Pro's Adventures on Tour, Volume 2 of 2 4.75 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
69.
Game Programming Patterns
Game Programming Patterns 4.48 avg rating β€” 1,523 ratings
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The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design
The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design 3.61 avg rating β€” 343 ratings
69.
Jagged Alliance 2 (Boss Fight Books, #5)
Jagged Alliance 2 (Boss Fight Books, #5) 4.03 avg rating β€” 242 ratings
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The Backgammon Chronicles: A Pro's Adventures on Tour, Volume 1 of 2
The Backgammon Chronicles: A Pro's Adventures on Tour, Volume 1 of 2 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
73.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Boss Fight Books, #20)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Boss Fight Books, #20)
by: Alex Kane
3.74 avg rating β€” 220 ratings
74.
NBA Jam (Boss Fight Books #21)
NBA Jam (Boss Fight Books #21)
by: Reyan Ali
4.34 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
75.
Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data
Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data 3.68 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
76.
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations 3.78 avg rating β€” 7,139 ratings
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Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I - How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire
Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I - How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire 3.82 avg rating β€” 611 ratings