Games development and programming Books

With DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH, step by step, legendary game creator Hideo Kojima changes the world once again. Embark on an inspiring mission of human connection beyond the UCA. Sam—with...

The Game Audio Director's Guide explores the Audio Director's role in video game production, showing how responsibilities change across different project phases and production demands.This book gives...

Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: TeachRPG – Tabletop Role-Playing Games in the Classroom, Volume II brings together a diverse group of educators and scholars who are using tabletop...

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles...

This thoroughly revised second edition equips readers with cutting-edge skills to create powerful concepts for interactive, digital, hybrid, and multi-platform narratives and experiences.Readers will...

Moral Conversion and Video Games is an in-depth exploration of Spec Ops: The Line, a critically acclaimed video game that subverts its genre by confronting players with the psychological and moral...

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, 2nd Edition, is an updated version of The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, continuing where The Game Narrative Toolbox left off. While The Game Narrative Toolbox...

What Games Mean: Understanding Games as Art relates games to established artforms through painting movements, auteur theory, music albums, and documentary. Each chapter discusses the history of the...

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, 2nd Edition, is an updated version of The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, continuing where The Game Narrative Toolbox left off. While The Game Narrative Toolbox...

What Games Mean: Understanding Games as Art relates games to established artforms through painting movements, auteur theory, music albums, and documentary. Each chapter discusses the history of the...

The Game Audio Director's Guide explores the Audio Director's role in video game production, showing how responsibilities change across different project phases and production demands.This book gives...

Game development is a high-stakes, high-pressure world where failure often feels inevitable, and success relies on navigating uncertainty. This book gives developers, producers and leaders the tools...

This book is a candid, practical, and inspiring look at building a sustainable, fulfilling career in game development. Drawing on over 20 years of experience – from some of the world's most renowned...

This book is a candid, practical, and inspiring look at building a sustainable, fulfilling career in game development. Drawing on over 20 years of experience – from some of the world's most renowned...

This book offers an unflinching look at the creative and structural challenges of storytelling in interactive media. Drawing on over 30 years of industry experience, Kelly Vero explores the rich...

The Definitive Game Narrative Guide is the ultimate start and end point for storytelling in video games. Whether you’re an aspiring writer or a seasoned game developer, this book offers an in‑depth,...

This book is the ultimate guide to improving the user experience of game development tools. It will guide you through the User‑Centered Design process — the gold standard in user experience design —...

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Five continues the series with another collection of chapters from twenty‑three of the top game AI professionals and researchers from around the world. Each chapter includes...

This new edition offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects, architectural and product...

Every writer dreams of creating their own game world and telling their own stories. But creating a new game from scratch is different from working on an established franchise. If you’re writing for...

Get Into Game Dev: Tech Interview Tactics is a crash-course on how to pass a game development technical interview. It’s designed to guide intermediate and experienced coders through the depth and...

Cultural Perspectives in Video Game Audio explores the fundamental role of sound – specifically sound effects, music, and voice acting – in video games. This book provides readers with a deeper...

Playing with Balance: Game Economy Design is your guide to understanding why games are unlike any other medium: they are built on verbs, not nouns. Players don’t just watch or read – they do. Every...

In today’s digital landscape, no company is immune to cyberattacks, making preparedness essential for any organization, regardless of size. Enter the world of Tabletop Exercises (TTXs), a...

Every writer dreams of creating their own game world and telling their own stories. But creating a new game from scratch is different from working on an established franchise. If you’re writing for...

Cultural Perspectives in Video Game Audio explores the fundamental role of sound – specifically sound effects, music, and voice acting – in video games. This book provides readers with a deeper...

In today’s digital landscape, no company is immune to cyberattacks, making preparedness essential for any organization, regardless of size. Enter the world of Tabletop Exercises (TTXs), a...

This book explains the steps in creating a licensed tabletop game and the factors which influence its design using examples, including the designer’s first-hand experience of converting the Fallout...

Culture Specific Items in Chinese to English Video Game Translation aims to investigate the Chinese to English translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) in the localisation of a wuxia role-playing...

Everybody has a story in them. Some people lack the language and the tools to tell that story effectively. As an avid tabletop role-playing game player, I’m amazed at people’s ability to tell stories...

This is an interdisciplinary guide designed to equip aspiring and professional practitioners across game development and related creative fields with the essential research knowledge and skills to...

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts...

This volume provides a multi-nuanced analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of human existence, encompassing societal, economic, and inter-relational dimensions. It...

This book is an introduction to game studies, written in an approachable way that outlines useful perspectives that readers can use to interrogate games as a primary text. It provides the reader with...

This book is an introduction to game studies, written in an approachable way that outlines useful perspectives that readers can use to interrogate games as a primary text. It provides the reader with...

This book is the ultimate guide to improving the user experience of game development tools. It will guide you through the User‑Centered Design process — the gold standard in user experience design —...

This book is an introduction to Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), equipping learners with a deep understanding of these media and enabling them to create impactful experiences...

This book gives novice coders an understanding of the methods and techniques used in professional games development. Projects are designed to help develop and strengthen problem solving and basic...

Get Into Game Dev: Tech Interview Tactics is a crash-course on how to pass a game development technical interview. It’s designed to guide intermediate and experienced coders through the depth and...

This book shows how games can play their part in addressing climate change and how we can sustainably make games for sustainability. Based on both industry practice and research, the chapters within...

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts...

Christopher Barney’s Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive...

This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to games user research (GUR). Blending theory and hands-on experience, it walks readers through methods, tools, and techniques tailored to the...

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Four continues the series with another collection of chapters from twenty of the top game AI professionals and researchers, from around the world. Each chapter includes...

This book gives novice coders an understanding of the methods and techniques used in professional games development. Projects are designed to help develop and strengthen problem solving and basic...

Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, Volume II, fifth edition, explores current developments in digital media narratives across major genres and platforms, from video...

This book provides a broad overview of editor extensions and modifications that can be made to speed up your workflow in the Unreal Engine. It covers tips for both initial content creation as well as...

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Four continues the series with another collection of chapters from twenty of the top game AI professionals and researchers, from around the world. Each chapter includes...