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The Art of Game Design: a book of lenses by Jesse Schell
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9781138632059
Publication Date: 2019
Presents over 100 sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game's design over 600 pages. Written by one of the world's top game designers, this book describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design, demonstrating how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in video games. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.
Material Game Studies: a philosophy of analogue play by Chloe Germaine (Editor); Paul Wake (Editor)
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9781350202719
Publication Date: 2022
This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games.
Games and Decision Making by Charalambos D. Aliprantis; Subir K. Chakrabarti
Call Number: 2nd Floor Stacks, QA269 .A44 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Blends decision theory and game theory from classical optimization to modern game theory. It demonstrates the importance of mathematical knowledge in understanding and analyzing issues in decision making.
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen; Eric Zimmerman
Call Number: 2nd Floor Stacks, QA76.76.C672 S25 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Playing Place: board games, popular culture, space by Chad Randl (Editor); D. Medina Lasansky (Editor)
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9780262047838
Publication Date: 2023-08-15
A smart coffee table book that explores multiple facets of board games, including their design and culture, and conceptions of space and place
The Well-Played Game: a Player's Philosophy by Bernard DeKoven
Call Number: 2nd Floor Stacks, GV1201 .D374 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players, game designers, educators, and scholars a guide to how games work.
Game Production: prototyping and producing your board game by Geoffrey Engelstein
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9781000290981
Publication Date: 2020
This book covers how to create a prototype of a game, including software and physical tools that can be used, graphic design and rules writing, and considerations for final product.
The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain by David Shenk
Call Number: 2d Floor Stacks, GV1317 .S54 2007
Publication Date: 2007
The 15 Puzzle: How It Drove the World Crazy; The Puzzle that Started the Craze of 1880; How Amercia's Greatest Puzzle Designer, Sam Loyd, Fooled Everyone for 115 Years by Jerry Slocum
Call Number: 2d Floor Stacks GV1493 .S5946 2006
Publication Date: 2006
New Games Treasury: More Than 500 Indoor and Outdoor Favorites with Strategies, Rules, and Traditions by Merilyn Mohr
Call Number: 2d Floor Stacks, GV1201 .M67 1997
Publication Date: 1997
An authoritative, fully illustrated resource. The lively text captures the rich lore and history behind games.
Who's in the Game?: identity and intersectionality in classic board games by Terri Toles Patkin
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9781476676913
Publication Date: 2020
Updates to popular games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability, and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change. Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. The existence of board games marks an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.

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Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design by Geoffrey Engelstein; Isaac Shalev
ISBN: 9780429430701
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Characteristics of Games (Ebook) by George Skaff Elias
ISBN: 026201713X
Publication Date: 2012-08-24
Gaming at the Edge by Adrienne Shaw
ISBN: 9781452943459
Publication Date: 2015
Gaming at the Edge builds on feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories of identity and draws on qualitative audience research methods to make sense of how representation comes to matter.
The Mathematics of Games and Gambling by Edward W. Packel
Publication Date: 2006
Probability theory continues to play a major role, game analyses still depend on expected value calculations together with computer simulations and game theory models for human behavior still strive mightily to capture an elusive reality.

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