The Best Books on Game Dev
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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Black Art of 3D Game Programming: Writing Your Own High-Speed 3D Polygon Video Games in C
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André LaMothe
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Real-Time Strategy Game Programming Using MS DIRECTX 6.0
by:
Mickey Kawick
3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 13. 
Tricks of the 3d Game Programming Gurus: Advanced 3d Graphics and Rasterization
by:
André LaMothe
4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings 14. 
Game Programming Tricks of the Trade (The Premier Press Game Development Series)
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Lorenzo Phillips
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 15. 
Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques: A Platform-Agnostic Approach
by:
Sanjay Madhav
4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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Gary Plowman
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings 16. 
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer
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Matt Hackett
4.02 avg rating — 177 ratings 19. 
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Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game with Unity and C# 4.27 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Game Development Patterns and Best Practices: Better games, less hassle
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John P. Doran
3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Game Programming Gems 5 (GAME PROGRAMMING GEMS SERIES)
by:
Kim Pallister
3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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Data Structures for Game Programmers (Premier Press Game Development) with CD-ROM
by:
Ron Penton
4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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Data Structures and Algorithms for Game Developers (Game Development Series)
by:
Allen Sherrod
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Game Programming Golden Rules (Game Development Series)
by:
Martin Brownlow
3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 49. 
Game Design: A Practical Approach (Game Development Series)
by:
Paul Schuytema
3.11 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Game AI Pro 2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals
by:
Steven Rabin
4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings 53. 
Game AI Pro: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals
by:
Steven Rabin
4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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Practical Game AI Programming: Unleash the power of Artificial Intelligence to your game
by:
Micael DaGraça
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 62. 
Game AI Pro 3: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals
by:
Steve Rabin
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Software Engineering for Game Developers
by:
John P. Flynt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX (Game Development Series)
by:
Jim Adams
3.31 avg rating — 35 ratings 74. 
Swords & Circuitry: A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games
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Neal Hallford
3.67 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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Ai Game Development: Synthetic Creatures With Learning and Reactive Behaviors 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games: An Introduction
by:
John David Funge
3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Game Audio Programming (ADVANCES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND GAME DEVELOPMENT SERIES)
by:
James Boer
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Mastering C++ Game Development: Create professional and realistic 3D games using C++ 17
by:
Mickey Macdonald
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 87. 
Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics, Third Edition
by:
Eric Lengyel
3.96 avg rating — 200 ratings 88. 
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Beginning Game Programming: A GameDev.net Collection (Course Technology Cengage Learning)
by:
John Hattan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 90. 
Advanced Game Programming: A GameDev.net Collection
by:
John Hattan
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 91. 
Multiplayer Game Programming: Architecting Networked Games
by:
Josh Glazer
4.33 avg rating — 83 ratings 92. 
Secrets of the Mud Wizards: Playing and Programming Muds, Moos, Mucks, and Other Internet Role-Playing Games
by:
Andrew Busey
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games
by:
John Aycock
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings