Computer Games Design

Games can be used to model systems because they are themselves systems. Video games handle this under the hood and teach you as you play, but becau...

Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present, and ...

This second edition of Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing is updated with new chapters and new authors, but it’s still a no-nonsense gu...

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultur...

Learn to design games for tablets from a renowned game designer! Eager to start designing games for tablets but not sure where to start? Look no f...

The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames. ...

The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames. ...

Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book ...

The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turni...

The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turni...

In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and econ...

From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, v...

In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and econ...

From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, v...

Game Design Deep Dive: Free-to-Play (F2P) continues the series’ focus on examining genres with a look at the history and methodology behind free-to...

How can video games be fun and immerse players in fantastic worlds where anything seems possible? How can they be so engaging to have become the ma...

The book provides a contemporary foundation in designing social impact games. It is structured in 3 parts: understanding, application, and implemen...

This book explores the impact of a video game’s degree of realism or fictionality on its linguistic dimensions, investigating the challenges and st...

Game Design Deep Dive: Free-to-Play (F2P) continues the series’ focus on examining genres with a look at the history and methodology behind free-to...

This book will help game designers and those interested in games thoughtfully embed culture into video games and the game design process.This book ...

This book will help game designers and those interested in games thoughtfully embed culture into video games and the game design process.This book ...

In the competitive world of video game writing and narrative design, developers are losing permanent positions while freelancing careers are on the...

Drawing on decades of experience, Beep to Boom: The Development of Advanced Runtime Sound Systems for Games and Extended Reality is a rigorous, com...

This book covers all the necessary topics that a professional game AI programmer needs to know, from math and steering behaviours to terrain analys...

This book covers all the necessary topics that a professional game AI programmer needs to know, from math and steering behaviours to terrain analys...

The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer’s Manual goes into the nuts and bolts of video game development from the perspective of...

The Reverse Design series looks at all of the design decisions that went into classic games. This is the third installment in the Reverse Design se...

Drawing on decades of experience, Beep to Boom: The Development of Advanced Runtime Sound Systems for Games and Extended Reality is a rigorous, com...

Virtual History examines many of the most popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history.The ...

This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and...

This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games, such as first-person shooters, flight and tank simulators, and gr...

The Video Games Textbook takes the history of video games to the next level. Coverage includes every major video game console, handheld system, and...