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Arthas

— Christie Golden

To protect his people from undeath, a prince becomes the very monster he swore to destroy.

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🖤 Corruption Arc 💀 Tragic Villain Origin 🗡️ Cursed Blade 🧟 Undead Plague 💔 Doomed Romance

Иммерсивные

Arthas

To protect his people from undeath, a prince becomes the very monster he swore to destroy.

— Christie Golden 2009 320 стр.

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🖤 Corruption Arc 💀 Tragic Villain Origin 🗡️ Cursed Blade 🧟 Undead Plague 💔 Doomed Romance

Level Up!

— 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

Иммерсивные

Level Up!

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

— Scott Rogers 2010 514 стр.

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

Геймдизайн

— Джесси Шелл • 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

Геймдизайн

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

— Джесси Шелл 2008 520 стр.

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

Словарь геймдизайна

— Анна Антропи • 2013

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

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134

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

Словарь геймдизайна

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

— Анна Антропи 2013 211 стр.

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

Геймдизайн. Как создать игру, в которую будут играть все

— Трейси Фуллертон • 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

Геймдизайн. Как создать игру, в которую будут играть все

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

— Трейси Фуллертон 2008 496 стр.

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

Теория развлечений для геймдизайна

— Ральф Костер • 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

Теория развлечений для геймдизайна

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

— Ральф Костер 2004 279 стр.

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

Чему видеоигры могут научить нас о грамотности и обучении

— Джеймс Пол Джи • 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

Чему видеоигры могут научить нас о грамотности и обучении

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

— Джеймс Пол Джи 2003 240 стр.

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

Реальность под вопросом

— Джейн Макгонигал • 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

Реальность под вопросом

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

— Джейн Макгонигал 2010 400 стр.

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

Getting Gamers

— Джейми Мэдиган • 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.

— Джейми Мэдиган 2015 299 стр.

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

Консольные войны

— Блейк Дж. Харрис • 2014

A toy exec and a blue hedgehog briefly unseated Nintendo. The real fight was inside the company.

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🎮 Video Game Industry ⚔️ Business Rivalries 🥊 Corporate Infighting 📢 Disruptive Marketing 🐱 Brand Mascots

Консольные войны

A toy exec and a blue hedgehog briefly unseated Nintendo. The real fight was inside the company.

— Блейк Дж. Харрис 2014 576 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Industry ⚔️ Business Rivalries 🥊 Corporate Infighting 📢 Disruptive Marketing 🐱 Brand Mascots

Designing Games

— 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.

— Tynan Sylvester 2013 413 стр.

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

Сторителлинг в видеоиграх

— Эван Сколник • 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

Сторителлинг в видеоиграх

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

— Эван Сколник 2014 208 стр.

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

Кровь, пот и пиксели. Обратная сторона индустрии видеоигр

— Джейсон Шрейер • 2017

Behind the scenes of Destiny, Diablo, and Stardew Valley: chaos, crunch, and last-minute saves.

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🎮 Video Game Development 🎬 Behind The Scenes 📰 Tech Journalism 🎨 Creative Process 🛠️ Labor Practices

Кровь, пот и пиксели. Обратная сторона индустрии видеоигр

Behind the scenes of Destiny, Diablo, and Stardew Valley: chaos, crunch, and last-minute saves.

— Джейсон Шрейер 2017 278 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Development 🎬 Behind The Scenes 📰 Tech Journalism 🎨 Creative Process 🛠️ Labor Practices

Persuasive Games

— Ian Bogost • 2007

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

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360

🎮 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.

— Ian Bogost 2007 450 стр.

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

How to Reassess Your Chess

— Jeremy Silman • 1993

Find the hidden imbalance, build a plan around it, and stop playing aimless moves.

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♟️ Chess Strategy 📍 Positional Chess 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🧮 Tactical Calculation 🧱 Pawn Structures

How to Reassess Your Chess

Find the hidden imbalance, build a plan around it, and stop playing aimless moves.

— Jeremy Silman 1993 402 стр.

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♟️ Chess Strategy 📍 Positional Chess 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🧮 Tactical Calculation 🧱 Pawn Structures

Silent Hill

— Bernard Perron • 2006

Fog, radio static, broken controls: Silent Hill made your own mind the real horror.

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🎮 Survival Horror Games 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Psychological Horror 👹 Monster Symbolism 🔊 Game Sound Design

Silent Hill

Fog, radio static, broken controls: Silent Hill made your own mind the real horror.

— Bernard Perron 2006 172 стр.

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🎮 Survival Horror Games 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Psychological Horror 👹 Monster Symbolism 🔊 Game Sound Design

Moral Combat

— Patrick M. Markey • 2017

Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.

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😱 Media Moral Panics 🎮 Video Game Studies 🔫 Violence And Media 🧠 Gaming Benefits 👴 Generational Divides

Moral Combat

Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.

— Patrick M. Markey 2017 256 стр.

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😱 Media Moral Panics 🎮 Video Game Studies 🔫 Violence And Media 🧠 Gaming Benefits 👴 Generational Divides

One Up

— Йост ван Дрёнен • 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.

— Йост ван Дрёнен 2020 296 стр.

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

The Infernal City

— Greg Keyes • 2009

A floating city devours souls. Its newest kitchen recruit: an alchemist who refuses to serve.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🏙️ Floating City 🖤 Soul Magic 📖 Dual Narrative ⚗️ Alchemy

The Infernal City

A floating city devours souls. Its newest kitchen recruit: an alchemist who refuses to serve.

— Greg Keyes 2009 288 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🏙️ Floating City 🖤 Soul Magic 📖 Dual Narrative ⚗️ Alchemy

Думай как геймдизайнер

— Джастин Гэри • 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

Думай как геймдизайнер

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

— Джастин Гэри 2018 230 стр.

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

Minecraft

— Max Brooks • 2017

A castaway with no memory battles monsters and mines the secrets of a block-shaped island.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In ⛏️ Survival Crafting 🔲 Block World 🏝️ Deserted Island ❓ Amnesiac Protagonist

Minecraft

A castaway with no memory battles monsters and mines the secrets of a block-shaped island.

— Max Brooks 2017 288 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In ⛏️ Survival Crafting 🔲 Block World 🏝️ Deserted Island ❓ Amnesiac Protagonist

Dungeon Master's Guide

— Wizards of the Coast • 2014

Dead parents in a locked apartment. Four prodigy children. Each had a reason to want them gone.

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🔐 Locked Room Mystery 🔒 Family Secrets 💊 Experimental Drugs 😶 Emotional Numbness 🔍 Sibling Investigators

Dungeon Master's Guide

Dead parents in a locked apartment. Four prodigy children. Each had a reason to want them gone.

— Wizards of the Coast 2014 320 стр.

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🔐 Locked Room Mystery 🔒 Family Secrets 💊 Experimental Drugs 😶 Emotional Numbness 🔍 Sibling Investigators

Monster Manual

— Wizards of the Coast • 2014

The bestiary your campaign needs: monster tactics, lore, and stats, ready to drop into any session.

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📖 Monster Compendiums 🎲 Tabletop Rpgs 🧰 Game Master Tools ⚔️ Encounter Design 🕳️ Dungeon Crawling

Monster Manual

The bestiary your campaign needs: monster tactics, lore, and stats, ready to drop into any session.

— Wizards of the Coast 2014 352 стр.

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📖 Monster Compendiums 🎲 Tabletop Rpgs 🧰 Game Master Tools ⚔️ Encounter Design 🕳️ Dungeon Crawling

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

— Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner • 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

— Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner 2020 265 стр.

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

Play Nice

— Jason Schreier • 2024

$80 million and seven years for a game that never shipped: the unraveling of Blizzard Entertainment.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 💻 Tech Company Histories ⏰ Crunch Culture ⚠️ Workplace Misconduct

Play Nice

$80 million and seven years for a game that never shipped: the unraveling of Blizzard Entertainment.

— Jason Schreier 2024 384 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 💻 Tech Company Histories ⏰ Crunch Culture ⚠️ Workplace Misconduct

Player's Handbook

— Wizards of the Coast • 2014

Build your hero, learn the spells, master the fights. The rulebook behind every tabletop adventure.

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🎭 Character Creation 🐉 Fantasy Roleplaying ⚔️ Tactical Combat 🎲 Game Mechanics 🤝 Party Dynamics

Player's Handbook

Build your hero, learn the spells, master the fights. The rulebook behind every tabletop adventure.

— Wizards of the Coast 2014 320 стр.

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🎭 Character Creation 🐉 Fantasy Roleplaying ⚔️ Tactical Combat 🎲 Game Mechanics 🤝 Party Dynamics

Game Mechanics

— 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.

— Ernest Adams 2012 353 стр.

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

Everybody Wins

— James Wallis • 2022

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

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🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Everybody Wins

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

— James Wallis 2022 443 стр.

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🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Shadow of the Xel'Naga

— Gabriel Mesta • 2001

An alien artifact awakens on a remote colony, and three warring species converge to claim it.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🪖 Military Sf 🛸 Alien Artifact 👩‍🚀 Reluctant Leader 🌾 Colonist Survival

Shadow of the Xel'Naga

An alien artifact awakens on a remote colony, and three warring species converge to claim it.

— Gabriel Mesta 2001 272 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🪖 Military Sf 🛸 Alien Artifact 👩‍🚀 Reluctant Leader 🌾 Colonist Survival

Press Reset

— Jason Schreier • 2021

Why game developers lose their jobs after shipping hit games, and who profits.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🛠️ Tech Labor ⏰ Crunch Culture 📉 Job Precarity 🎭 Art Vs Commerce

Press Reset

Why game developers lose their jobs after shipping hit games, and who profits.

— Jason Schreier 2021 301 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🛠️ Tech Labor ⏰ Crunch Culture 📉 Job Precarity 🎭 Art Vs Commerce

Minecraft

— Mojang AB • 2017

A retiring adventurer hands you his illustrated field notes on every creature in Minecraft.

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🎮 Video Game Bestiary 🗺️ Fictional Field Guide 📓 Explorer's Journal 📖 Creature Compendium ⛏️ Minecraft Universe

Minecraft

A retiring adventurer hands you his illustrated field notes on every creature in Minecraft.

— Mojang AB 2017 104 стр.

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387 оценок

🎮 Video Game Bestiary 🗺️ Fictional Field Guide 📓 Explorer's Journal 📖 Creature Compendium ⛏️ Minecraft Universe

Eurogames

— 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.

— Stewart Woods 2012 262 стр.

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137 оценок

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

It's All a Game

— Tristan Donovan • 2017

The board games in your closet once trained generals, hid spies, and taught machines to think.

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🎲 Board Game History 🔍 Cultural History 🎨 Game Design 🏺 Material Culture 🔬 Microhistory

It's All a Game

The board games in your closet once trained generals, hid spies, and taught machines to think.

— Tristan Donovan 2017 304 стр.

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🎲 Board Game History 🔍 Cultural History 🎨 Game Design 🏺 Material Culture 🔬 Microhistory

Lost in a Good Game

— Pete Etchells • 2019

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

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🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Lost in a Good Game

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

— Pete Etchells 2019 320 стр.

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🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Unboxed

— 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.

— Gordon Calleja 2022 312 стр.

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

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

— 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.

— Mike Selinker 2011 138 стр.

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

The Invisible Game

— 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.

— Zoltan Andrejkovics 2016 201 стр.

4.33

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

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