Must Reads For Game Designers
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 | The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses by Jesse Schell
Buy new: $42.09 / Used from: $29.75 |
 | The Simplicity Shift: Innovative Design Tactics in a Corporate World by Scott Jenson
Buy new: $38.48 / Used from: $1.99 |
 | The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $1.70 |
 | Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Buy new: $10.53 / Used from: $7.11 |
 | Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design by William Lidwell
Buy new: $18.04 / Used from: $18.47 |
 | On the Way to Fun: An Emotion-Based Approach to Successful Game Design by Roberto Dillon
Buy new: $26.70 / Used from: $16.00 |
 | A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
Buy new: $15.81 / Used from: $8.62 |
 | High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, Second Edition by Rusel DeMaria
Buy used from: $36.35 |
 | Game Design Workshop, Second Edition: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Gama Network Series) by Tracy Fullerton
Buy new: $25.54 / Used from: $17.53 |
 | Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition by Andrew Rollings
Buy new: $37.66 / Used from: $4.39 |
 | Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by M.D., Stuart Brown
Buy used from: $6.81 |
 | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $8.04 |
 | Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen
Buy new: $36.20 / Used from: $19.38 |
 | Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames by Ian Bogost
Buy new: $26.59 / Used from: $11.69 |
 | The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.99 |
 | Gamer Theory by McKenzie Wark
Buy new: $14.39 / Used from: $13.01 |
 | Homo Ludens by J. Huizinga
Buy new: $41.01 / Used from: $54.89 |
 | How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Buy new: $12.70 / Used from: $6.92 |
 | Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do (Interactive Technologies) by B.J. Fogg
Buy new: $32.86 / Used from: $17.22 |
 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.27 |
 | Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $9.07 |
 | Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation by Edward L. Deci
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.42 |
 | The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, Pheromones, and Music by Gene Wallenstein
Buy new: $21.70 / Used from: $1.31 |
 | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Prof. Robin Dunbar
Buy new: $16.45 / Used from: $14.50 |
 | Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $12.95 |
