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Level Up!

af Scott Rogers • 2010

A designer's toolbox: how to build games that players love, one rule at a time.

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🎮 Game Design 🗺️ Level Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🕹️ Game UX 🧩 Behavioral Design

Immersiv

Level Up!

A designer's toolbox: how to build games that players love, one rule at a time.

af Scott Rogers 2010 514 sider

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1.000+ bedømmelser

🎮 Game Design 🗺️ Level Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🕹️ Game UX 🧩 Behavioral Design

The Art of Game Design

af Jesse Schell • 2008

Players feel your work, they don't read it. A hundred ways to design what they feel.

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🌊 Flow Theory 🌍 World-Building

The Art of Game Design

Players feel your work, they don't read it. A hundred ways to design what they feel.

af Jesse Schell 2008 520 sider

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🌊 Flow Theory 🌍 World-Building

The Gamification of Learning and Instruction

af Karl M. Kapp • 2012

Points and badges alone fail. Design learning that motivates like a game, tailored to player types.

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🧱 Instructional Design 🎮 Game-Based Learning 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation 🎓 Experiential Learning 🔬 Self-Determination Theory

The Gamification of Learning and Instruction

Points and badges alone fail. Design learning that motivates like a game, tailored to player types.

af Karl M. Kapp 2012 336 sider

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🧱 Instructional Design 🎮 Game-Based Learning 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation 🎓 Experiential Learning 🔬 Self-Determination Theory

Homo Ludens

af Johan Huizinga • 1938

Legal procedure and ritual both began as play. Modernity's error is pretending they didn't.

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🏛️ Cultural History 🦴 Philosophical Anthropology 🎲 Theories Of Play 🎭 Ritual And Ceremony 🎨 Origins Of Art

Homo Ludens

Legal procedure and ritual both began as play. Modernity's error is pretending they didn't.

af Johan Huizinga 1938 230 sider

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🏛️ Cultural History 🦴 Philosophical Anthropology 🎲 Theories Of Play 🎭 Ritual And Ceremony 🎨 Origins Of Art

Understanding Motivation and Emotion

af Johnmarshall Reeve • 1992

Motivation science from the inside out: the needs, beliefs, goals, and emotions that move people.

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🧪 Motivation Science 📚 Educational Psychology 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🎯 Goal Setting 💪 Self-Efficacy

Understanding Motivation and Emotion

Motivation science from the inside out: the needs, beliefs, goals, and emotions that move people.

af Johnmarshall Reeve 1992 600 sider

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🧪 Motivation Science 📚 Educational Psychology 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🎯 Goal Setting 💪 Self-Efficacy

Emotional Design

af Donald A. Norman • 2003

Your brain processes beauty before conscious thought, and good looks make things easier to use.

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🧠 Design Psychology 🎨 Aesthetics And Usability 🖱️ Interaction Design 💡 Design Thinking 🧩 Cognition And Affect

Emotional Design

Your brain processes beauty before conscious thought, and good looks make things easier to use.

af Donald A. Norman 2003 272 sider

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🧠 Design Psychology 🎨 Aesthetics And Usability 🖱️ Interaction Design 💡 Design Thinking 🧩 Cognition And Affect

Actionable Gamification

af Yu-kai Chou • 2015

Eight human drives power every action. A blueprint for designing products people can't put down.

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🎮 Gamification 🧩 Behavioral Design 👆 User Engagement 🧠 Human Motivation 💰 Behavioral Economics

Actionable Gamification

Eight human drives power every action. A blueprint for designing products people can't put down.

af Yu-kai Chou 2015 507 sider

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🎮 Gamification 🧩 Behavioral Design 👆 User Engagement 🧠 Human Motivation 💰 Behavioral Economics

A Game Design Vocabulary

af Anna Anthropy • 2013

The grammar of game design: how to script a back-and-forth that players lose themselves in.

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📗 Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Game Systems 🧠 Player Experience 📖 Emergent Narrative

A Game Design Vocabulary

The grammar of game design: how to script a back-and-forth that players lose themselves in.

af Anna Anthropy 2013 211 sider

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📗 Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Game Systems 🧠 Player Experience 📖 Emergent Narrative

Game Design Workshop

af Tracy Fullerton • 2008

The prototyping-first method that catches design disasters before you write a single line of code.

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🎮 Game Design 📐 Rapid Prototyping 🔄 Iterative Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🌱 Emergent Gameplay

Game Design Workshop

The prototyping-first method that catches design disasters before you write a single line of code.

af Tracy Fullerton 2008 496 sider

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🎮 Game Design 📐 Rapid Prototyping 🔄 Iterative Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🌱 Emergent Gameplay

A Theory Of Fun For Game Design

af Ralph Koster • 2004

Games tap into your brain's learning circuits. The rush of fun is the moment something clicks.

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🎮 Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Learning Through Games ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Player Psychology

A Theory Of Fun For Game Design

Games tap into your brain's learning circuits. The rush of fun is the moment something clicks.

af Ralph Koster 2004 279 sider

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🎮 Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Learning Through Games ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Player Psychology

The Game Changer

af Jason Fox • 2014

Pep talks fail. Visible progress works. A game-design playbook for building it into work.

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🏗️ Change Management 💼 Workplace Motivation 🎮 Gameful Design 📊 Visible Progress 🎯 Motivational Design

The Game Changer

Pep talks fail. Visible progress works. A game-design playbook for building it into work.

af Jason Fox 2014 240 sider

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🏗️ Change Management 💼 Workplace Motivation 🎮 Gameful Design 📊 Visible Progress 🎯 Motivational Design

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

af James Paul Gee • 2003

Video games teach because they have to. The 36 learning principles schools can steal from them.

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🎮 Game-Based Learning 🧠 Learning Science 📍 Situated Cognition 👁️ Multimodal Learning 🔄 Learning Through Failure

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Video games teach because they have to. The 36 learning principles schools can steal from them.

af James Paul Gee 2003 240 sider

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🎮 Game-Based Learning 🧠 Learning Science 📍 Situated Cognition 👁️ Multimodal Learning 🔄 Learning Through Failure

Reality Is Broken

af Jane McGonigal • 2010

Games satisfy us more than reality does. That gap is a blueprint for a better world.

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🎮 Game Design 🕹️ Gamification 🌞 Positive Psychology 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🌊 Flow Psychology

Reality Is Broken

Games satisfy us more than reality does. That gap is a blueprint for a better world.

af Jane McGonigal 2010 400 sider

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🎮 Game Design 🕹️ Gamification 🌞 Positive Psychology 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🌊 Flow Psychology

Getting Gamers

af Jamie Madigan • 2015

The psychology that turns play into obsession, strangers into teammates, and pixels into identity.

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🎮 Gaming Psychology 🧠 Behavioral Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🌐 Online Communities 🪪 Social Identity

Getting Gamers

The psychology that turns play into obsession, strangers into teammates, and pixels into identity.

af Jamie Madigan 2015 299 sider

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🎮 Gaming Psychology 🧠 Behavioral Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🌐 Online Communities 🪪 Social Identity

Play to Learn

af Sharon Boller • 2017

The step-by-step playbook for designing learning games that slash training time and boost retention.

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🎮 Game Design 🛠️ Instructional Design 🎲 Game-Based Learning 🎯 Serious Games 🏢 Corporate Training

Play to Learn

The step-by-step playbook for designing learning games that slash training time and boost retention.

af Sharon Boller 2017 168 sider

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🎮 Game Design 🛠️ Instructional Design 🎲 Game-Based Learning 🎯 Serious Games 🏢 Corporate Training

Game Programming Patterns

af Robert Nystrom • 2011

The programming patterns that make game code resilient to change, and the ones that don't.

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🎮 Game Programming 🧩 Design Patterns 🏗️ Software Architecture ⚡ Performance Optimization 🔗 Decoupling

Game Programming Patterns

The programming patterns that make game code resilient to change, and the ones that don't.

af Robert Nystrom 2011 354 sider

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🎮 Game Programming 🧩 Design Patterns 🏗️ Software Architecture ⚡ Performance Optimization 🔗 Decoupling

Gamification by Design

af Gabe Zichermann • 2011

Why most badges fail: the motivation design that turns app users into players.

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🎮 Gamification ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧠 Player Motivation 🔬 Behavioral Design 🌊 Flow Psychology

Gamification by Design

Why most badges fail: the motivation design that turns app users into players.

af Gabe Zichermann 2011 182 sider

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🎮 Gamification ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧠 Player Motivation 🔬 Behavioral Design 🌊 Flow Psychology

Designing Games

af Tynan Sylvester • 2013

Build games as emotion machines: a systems guide to rules, choices, and difficulty.

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🔗 Systems Thinking 📖 Narrative Design

Designing Games

Build games as emotion machines: a systems guide to rules, choices, and difficulty.

af Tynan Sylvester 2013 413 sider

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🔗 Systems Thinking 📖 Narrative Design

The Gamer's Brain

af Celia Hodent • 2017

Your player's brain is a flawed, distracted survival machine. Good UX starts there.

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🎮 Game Ux 🧠 Player Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Load 💎 Intrinsic Motivation 🔬 User Research

The Gamer's Brain

Your player's brain is a flawed, distracted survival machine. Good UX starts there.

af Celia Hodent 2017 272 sider

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🎮 Game Ux 🧠 Player Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Load 💎 Intrinsic Motivation 🔬 User Research

Video Game Storytelling

af Evan Skolnick • 2014

Screenwriting's classic tools applied to games, so story and gameplay pull the same direction.

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🎮 Game Writing 📖 Interactive Storytelling 📐 Story Structure 🧑 Character Arcs 🏛️ Mythic Structure

Video Game Storytelling

Screenwriting's classic tools applied to games, so story and gameplay pull the same direction.

af Evan Skolnick 2014 208 sider

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🎮 Game Writing 📖 Interactive Storytelling 📐 Story Structure 🧑 Character Arcs 🏛️ Mythic Structure

Gamify

af Brian Burke • 2014

Stop adding badges to everything. Real gamification starts with what the player wants to achieve.

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📊 Gamification Design 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation 🔄 Behavioral Design 🎨 Design Thinking 👥 Employee Engagement

Gamify

Stop adding badges to everything. Real gamification starts with what the player wants to achieve.

af Brian Burke 2014 162 sider

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📊 Gamification Design 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation 🔄 Behavioral Design 🎨 Design Thinking 👥 Employee Engagement

Persuasive Games

af Ian Bogost • 2007

A videogame's rules are arguments. Learning to read them changes how you see every screen.

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🎮 Game Studies 📺 Media Theory 📜 Rhetorical Theory 🎲 Game Design Theory 📱 Digital Media Criticism

Persuasive Games

A videogame's rules are arguments. Learning to read them changes how you see every screen.

af Ian Bogost 2007 450 sider

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🎮 Game Studies 📺 Media Theory 📜 Rhetorical Theory 🎲 Game Design Theory 📱 Digital Media Criticism

Glued to Games

af Scott Rigby • 2011

Games grip you longer than movies because they feed deep needs that daily life starves.

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🎮 Video Game Psychology 🕹️ Game Design Theory 🧠 Player Motivation 📚 Self-Determination Theory ⚠️ Game Addiction

Glued to Games

Games grip you longer than movies because they feed deep needs that daily life starves.

af Scott Rigby 2011 200 sider

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🎮 Video Game Psychology 🕹️ Game Design Theory 🧠 Player Motivation 📚 Self-Determination Theory ⚠️ Game Addiction

Play Anything

af Ian Bogost • 2016

Real fun needs rules, not freedom. The philosopher's case against chasing happiness.

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🎲 Philosophy Of Games 🔗 Creative Constraints 🔄 Anti-Self-Help 😶 Critique Of Happiness 🔍 Deep Engagement

Play Anything

Real fun needs rules, not freedom. The philosopher's case against chasing happiness.

af Ian Bogost 2016 288 sider

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🎲 Philosophy Of Games 🔗 Creative Constraints 🔄 Anti-Self-Help 😶 Critique Of Happiness 🔍 Deep Engagement

A Composer's Guide to Game Music

af Winifred Phillips • 2014

Game music bends to the player. The craft, technology, and business behind interactive scores.

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🎮 Game Music Composition 🎧 Interactive Audio 🔄 Adaptive Music 💻 Music Technology 💼 Music Business

A Composer's Guide to Game Music

Game music bends to the player. The craft, technology, and business behind interactive scores.

af Winifred Phillips 2014 275 sider

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🎮 Game Music Composition 🎧 Interactive Audio 🔄 Adaptive Music 💻 Music Technology 💼 Music Business

Gamers at Work

af Morgan Ramsay • 2012

Atari, EA, Blizzard, Valve: the founders reveal the near-death moments behind gaming's biggest hits.

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🎮 Game Industry 🚀 Tech Startups 🎙️ Founder Interviews 🏢 Company Culture 🎨 Creative Business

Gamers at Work

Atari, EA, Blizzard, Valve: the founders reveal the near-death moments behind gaming's biggest hits.

af Morgan Ramsay 2012 356 sider

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🎮 Game Industry 🚀 Tech Startups 🎙️ Founder Interviews 🏢 Company Culture 🎨 Creative Business

One Up

af Joost van Dreunen • 2020

Three transformations in four decades, and each one rewarded strategy over creative genius.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏗️ Platform Economics 📡 Digital Disruption 🎨 Creative Industries 👾 Game Developers

One Up

Three transformations in four decades, and each one rewarded strategy over creative genius.

af Joost van Dreunen 2020 296 sider

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏗️ Platform Economics 📡 Digital Disruption 🎨 Creative Industries 👾 Game Developers

Think Like a Game Designer

af Justin Gary • 2018

A repeatable design loop that turns raw ideas into tested, publishable games, no genius required.

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🎮 Game Design 🎨 Creative Industries 💡 Design Thinking 🔧 Rapid Prototyping 🧠 Player Psychology

Think Like a Game Designer

A repeatable design loop that turns raw ideas into tested, publishable games, no genius required.

af Justin Gary 2018 230 sider

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🎮 Game Design 🎨 Creative Industries 💡 Design Thinking 🔧 Rapid Prototyping 🧠 Player Psychology

The Gamification Revolution

af Gabe Zichermann • 2013

What makes games sticky, and how to steal their playbook for business.

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🎮 Gamification 💼 Employee Engagement 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation 👥 Crowdsourcing

The Gamification Revolution

What makes games sticky, and how to steal their playbook for business.

af Gabe Zichermann 2013 256 sider

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🎮 Gamification 💼 Employee Engagement 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation 👥 Crowdsourcing

The Multiplayer Classroom

af Lee Sheldon • 2011

Your syllabus is a game design document. Here is how to write it, no computers required.

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🎮 Gamification 🎲 Game-Based Learning 📐 Instructional Design 📚 Classroom Engagement 🏃 Active Learning

The Multiplayer Classroom

Your syllabus is a game design document. Here is how to write it, no computers required.

af Lee Sheldon 2011 256 sider

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🎮 Gamification 🎲 Game-Based Learning 📐 Instructional Design 📚 Classroom Engagement 🏃 Active Learning

Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

af John P. Doran • 2017

Design patterns that ship games: when to use each and how they prevent late-stage collapse.

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🎮 Game Development 🧩 Design Patterns 🧹 Clean Code 🏗️ Software Architecture ⚡ Performance Optimization

Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Design patterns that ship games: when to use each and how they prevent late-stage collapse.

af John P. Doran 2017 361 sider

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🎮 Game Development 🧩 Design Patterns 🧹 Clean Code 🏗️ Software Architecture ⚡ Performance Optimization

A Crowdfunder's Strategy Guide

af Jamey Stegmaier • 2015

Crowdfunding success starts six months before you launch, with a community, not a campaign page.

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💰 Crowdfunding Strategy 👥 Community-First Business 📋 Campaign Design 💬 Backer Relations 🌱 Ethical Marketing

A Crowdfunder's Strategy Guide

Crowdfunding success starts six months before you launch, with a community, not a campaign page.

af Jamey Stegmaier 2015 216 sider

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💰 Crowdfunding Strategy 👥 Community-First Business 📋 Campaign Design 💬 Backer Relations 🌱 Ethical Marketing

Game Mechanics

af Ernest Adams • 2012

Visualize your game's economy, simulate rival strategies, and nail the balance before you ship.

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🕹️ Game Systems Design 📊 Internal Economies 🏗️ Design Patterns 🌊 Emergent Gameplay ⚖️ Game Balance

Game Mechanics

Visualize your game's economy, simulate rival strategies, and nail the balance before you ship.

af Ernest Adams 2012 353 sider

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🕹️ Game Systems Design 📊 Internal Economies 🏗️ Design Patterns 🌊 Emergent Gameplay ⚖️ Game Balance

Educational Game Design Fundamentals

af George Kalmpourtzis • 2018

Most educational games fail because they forget the play. The design framework that fixes that.

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🎮 Game Design 🎓 Educational Games 🧲 Intrinsic Motivation 🧠 Learning Theory 🌊 Flow State

Educational Game Design Fundamentals

Most educational games fail because they forget the play. The design framework that fixes that.

af George Kalmpourtzis 2018 296 sider

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🎮 Game Design 🎓 Educational Games 🧲 Intrinsic Motivation 🧠 Learning Theory 🌊 Flow State

Eurogames

af Stewart Woods • 2012

Postwar Germany rejected war games and invented a genre where elegance matters more than conquest.

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🎓 Game Studies 🎲 Board Game Culture 📐 Game Design Theory 🧠 Player Psychology 📜 Game History

Eurogames

Postwar Germany rejected war games and invented a genre where elegance matters more than conquest.

af Stewart Woods 2012 262 sider

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🎓 Game Studies 🎲 Board Game Culture 📐 Game Design Theory 🧠 Player Psychology 📜 Game History

The Board Game Designer's Guide

af Joe Slack • 2017

Design the feeling first. A four-step cycle that turns a rough prototype into a hit.

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🎲 Board Game Design 🔄 Iterative Design 😄 Player Experience ✂️ Prototyping 🧪 Playtesting

The Board Game Designer's Guide

Design the feeling first. A four-step cycle that turns a rough prototype into a hit.

af Joe Slack 2017 233 sider

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🎲 Board Game Design 🔄 Iterative Design 😄 Player Experience ✂️ Prototyping 🧪 Playtesting

Unboxed

af Gordon Calleja • 2022

Board games succeed or fail on six forms of involvement. Most designers only account for one.

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🎲 Board Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Play Theory 📖 Analog Revival 🔍 Phenomenology

Unboxed

Board games succeed or fail on six forms of involvement. Most designers only account for one.

af Gordon Calleja 2022 312 sider

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🎲 Board Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Play Theory 📖 Analog Revival 🔍 Phenomenology

Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools

af David Lightbown • 2015

Game tools are an unmeasured productivity drain. A UX method for fixing what studios overlook.

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🛠️ Game Development Tools 🖼️ User Interface Design 👥 User-Centered Design 🔍 Usability Testing 🧠 Cognitive Design

Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools

Game tools are an unmeasured productivity drain. A UX method for fixing what studios overlook.

af David Lightbown 2015 188 sider

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🛠️ Game Development Tools 🖼️ User Interface Design 👥 User-Centered Design 🔍 Usability Testing 🧠 Cognitive Design

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

af Mike Selinker • 2011

Designing a board game is designing an emotion. The craft of mechanics, pacing, and playtesting.

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🎲 Board Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🔬 Playtesting 🧠 Player Psychology 🛠️ Prototyping

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

Designing a board game is designing an emotion. The craft of mechanics, pacing, and playtesting.

af Mike Selinker 2011 138 sider

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🎲 Board Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🔬 Playtesting 🧠 Player Psychology 🛠️ Prototyping

The Invisible Game

af Zoltan Andrejkovics • 2016

Your team grinds mechanics all day and still cracks under pressure. The missing half is trainable.

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🧠 Sports Psychology 🤝 Team Dynamics 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🌊 Flow States 🫀 Emotional Regulation

The Invisible Game

Your team grinds mechanics all day and still cracks under pressure. The missing half is trainable.

af Zoltan Andrejkovics 2016 201 sider

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🧠 Sports Psychology 🤝 Team Dynamics 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🌊 Flow States 🫀 Emotional Regulation

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