Next-Gen.biz's Top Video Game Book Picks by Ernest Adams
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 | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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 | Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen
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 | Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds by Jesper Juul
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 | Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism by Ian Bogost
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 | Fundamentals of Game Design by Ernest Adams
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 | 21st Century Game Design (Game Development Series) by Chris Bateman
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 | Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding The Market (Advances in Computer Graphics and Game Development Series) by Sheri Graner Ray
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 | A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
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 | Digital Game-Based Learning by Marc Prensky
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 | Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames (Charles River Media Game Development)
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 | Creating the Art of the Game by Matthew Omernick
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 | Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
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 | Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative by Mark Stephen Meadows
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 | The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness (New Riders Games) by George "Fat Man" Sanger
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 | Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide (Nrg-Programming) by Jessica Mulligan
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 | Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle
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 | Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities by Amy Jo Kim
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 | Oxford History of Board Games by David Parlett
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 | The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World by Steven L. Kent
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 | Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 by Van Burnham
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 | Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds by J. C. Herz
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 | Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones
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 | What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
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 | Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
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 | From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
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 | Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
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 | The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks
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 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition) by Tom DeMarco
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 | Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games by Austin Grossman
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 | Game Over Press Start To Continue by David Sheff
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 | Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
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 | Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution by Heather Chaplin
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 | The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console by Dean Takahashi
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