Game Development

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 of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card, and athletic games also...

UNLOCK YOUR GAME'S NARRATIVE POTENTIAL! With increasingly sophisticated video games being consumed by an enthusiastic and expanding audience, the pressure is on game developers like never before to deliver exciting stories and engaging characters. With Video Game Storytelling, game writer and...

Plan, write and ship a story-driven game your small team can actually finish, with the tools the classic adventure games were built on. When a story-driven indie game stalls, the writing is rarely the main problem. The story was planned like a film and built like a game: every branch, room and line has to be made, tested and translated, and the script grows faster than the team. Adventure games solved this decades ago, because in an adventure game the story and the play are the same thing. This revised 2026 edition, rewritten from the first page, turns their methods into a practical toolkit...

Unlock the secrets of addictive game design with "Level Up Addiction: Crafting Irresistible Game Loops." This comprehensive guide explores the art of creating captivating game loops that keep players coming back for more. Our book takes you behind the scenes of successful video games, unraveling the psychological tricks and techniques that make players click 'continue.' From the perfect reward systems to the most engaging progression mechanics, 'Level Up Addiction' is your blueprint to crafting immersive gaming experiences. 🔸 Discover the science behind player motivation and engagement. ...

The Secret Science of Games is an accessible and entertaining guide to the hidden role of science in making games more fun. User experience (UX) research is a vital part of the story of how video games have become a cultural juggernaut, but game developers generally don’t speak publicly about how data shapes game design and game development.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Do you love gaming? Do you have ideas for games of your own and want to learn how to produce them professionally? Longtime game designer Justin Gary has the answers you seek. After 20 years in the gaming industry, creating such games as Solforge, Ascension, and the World of Warcraft Miniatures Game, Justin is now sharing all his secrets in Think Like a Game Designer. Best of all, Justin’s secrets are really simple, practical, and common sense steps you can take yourself.

Create your very first video game without any prior coding experience!! Would you like to get ahold of simple, effective, and compatible steps that will enable you to be an excellent problem solver while game programming? Do you want to start game coding without worrying if you’re smart enough to get it right? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, you’ve got to listen to this book!

A Step-by-Step Master Class in Indie Game Development, from the Creator of the Emmy® Winning Neverwinter Nights™ Honors for Don Daglow's From Dream to Delivery books: Winner, 2019 Independent Press Book Awards Winner, Kirkus Top 100 Indie Books of 2019 Finalist, 2020 Top Shelf Book Awards Finalist, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, Book Excellence Awards "Don Daglow has survived 40+ years creating games and always retained his positive attitude. Learn from the master." – Jeff Braun, ...

How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself is a guide for anyone who wants to make their own video game. Listen to this book to learn how to locate the itch you're eager to scratch, how to pick a game engine to power your vision, and how to find the fun in your game. Most importantly, this book helps you guide your project to the finish line. Written from personal experience by a video game industry veteran and podcaster, it's packed with handmade drawings and charts

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason...

Unlock the hidden art of influence with this simplified guide to dark seduction and persuasion. Discover how charisma, intelligence, and covert tactics shape decisions, create attraction, and control outcomes—all while learning how to protect yourself from manipulation.

In this book, the fifth book in the series, you will become comfortable with creating your own RPG. If you were ever interested in creating systems for your game to speed-up your coding and create and maintain levels easily, then this book is for you.

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym...

From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's...

The book guides you through a step-by-step process of making a commercial game. It teaches you how to learn all the necessary skills and covers various aspects of game development: mindset, preproduction, funding, business, law, development, marketing, PR, publishing, distribution, as well as pre-launch, launch, and post-launch strategies. 

Ever wonder why some game companies succeed while others fail? This book explains why. Game industry veteran Kim Nordström spent two years interviewing over 100 of the industry's most successful founders, CEOs, and leaders, about lessons learned and wisdom gained from their biggest wins and most disastrous failures.

Are you a beginner who’d like to know how to program video games? A.E Colonna is an avid gamer and a self-taught game developer who is ready to give you a smooth introduction to video game development. After nine weeks, you’re guaranteed to know the basic coding concepts; you’ll be ready to create your first game using C# and the unity engine. 

From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and...

This program is read by the author. Do you want to change the course of your life? Do you want to be the best? The best manager, the best athlete, the best artist, the best speaker, the best parent? In There’s No Plan B for Your A-Game, former pro athlete, playwright, and acclaimed leadership...