BookRank : Game Design (updated 27 Jan 2006) Chris Crawford wrote the definitive book, but what are the other distinctive game design books? 1 to 50 | 51 to 100 | 101 to 150 | 151 to 200  Chris Crawford on Game Design   by Chris Crawford (June 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design   by Andrew Rollings, Ernest Adams (May 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Ultimate Game Design: Building Game Worlds   by Tom Meigs (May 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Creating Emotion in Games: The Craft and Art of Emotioneering   by David Freeman, Will Wright (September 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals   by Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman (November 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software   by Chris Crawford (December 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Development and Production (Wordware Game Developer's Library)   by Erik Bethke (February 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide   by Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky (March 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  The Video Game Theory Reader   by Mark J. P. Wolf, Bernard Perron (August 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition   by Andrew Rollings, Dave Morris (October 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Designing Virtual Worlds   by Richard A. Bartle, Richard Bartle (July 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy   by James Paul Gee, James Gee (May 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Secrets of the Game Business (Game Development Series)   by Francois Dominic Laramee (February 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  The Medium of the Video Game   by Mark J. P. Wolf (February 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic   by Brad King, John Borland (August 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Trigger Happy : Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution   by Steven Poole (September 2000)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 10 to 11 days  Game Development Business and Legal Guide   by Ashley Salisbury (April 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Massively Multiplayer Game Development (Game Development Series)   by Thor Alexander (February 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Coding Complete   by Mike McShaffry (June 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  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 (September 2001)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming   by Daniel Sanchez-Crespo Dalmau, Daniel Sanchez-Crespo (September 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Plan: The Insider's Guide to Breaking In and Succeeding in the Computer and Video Game Business   by Alan Gershenfeld, Mark Loparco, Cecilia Barajas (May 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture   by David Kushner (May 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  The Indie Game Development Survival Guide (Game Development Series)   by David Michael (August 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  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 (February 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Developer's Market Guide (Game Development)   by Bob Bates (August 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0   by Frank D. Luna, ROD LOPEZ (June 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus (2nd Edition)   by Andre LaMothe (June 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  C++ for Game Programmers (Game Development Series)   by Noel Llopis (April 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games   by Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson (April 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Out of Print--Limited Availability  ARCADE FEVER The Fan's Guide to The Golden Age of Video Games   by John Sellers (August 2001)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution   by Dean Takahashi (April 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Out of Print--Limited Availability  Break Into The Game Industry: How to Get A Job Making Video Games   by Ernest Adams (May 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Get in the Game: Careers in the Game Industry   by Marc Mencher (October 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Physics (Interactive 3d Technology Series)   by David H. Eberly (December 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization   by André LaMothe (June 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, Second Edition   by Rusel Demaria, Johnny L. Wilson (December 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Physics for Game Developers   by David M. Bourg (November 2001)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  AI Game Programming Wisdom 2   by Steve Rabin (December 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Managed Directx 9: Kick Start : Graphics and Game Programming   by Tom Miller (October 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX w/CD   by Jim Adams (January 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games   by Bob Bates (April 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Supercade: A Visual History of the Videograme Age 1971-1984   by Van Burnham (November 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Xbox: Blow the Lid Off!   by Brian Underdahl (October 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development   by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry (June 2002)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Advanced 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0   by Peter Walsh (April 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering   by Andrew Huang (July 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Programming Gems 4 (Game Programming Gems Series)   by Andrew Kirmse (March 2004)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts   by Marc Saltzman (June 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours  Ps2 Secret Codes 2004 (Brady Games.)   by H. Leigh Davis (December 2003)  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de | Usually ships within 24 hours 1 to 50 | 51 to 100 | 101 to 150 | 151 to 200 Built by Chris McEvoy