Books
- Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (234 pages, first published in German in 1944) by Johan Huizinga. PDF
- The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (179 pages, 1978) by Bernard Suits.
- The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (2nd Ed, 600 pages, 2014) by Kesse Schell.
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (224 pages, 1994) by Scott McCloud.
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A Theory of Fun for Game Design (256 pages, 2004) by Raph Koster. Review by Game Design Concepts (blog):
This book shows the similarities between game design and education, with a good discussion of the concept of Flow. Half text and half cartoons, this short book flows nicely and can be read in an afternoon or two.
- Game Design Workshop (535 pages, 3rd Edition, 2014) by Tracy Fullerton.
- Actionable Gamification (502 pages, 2015) by Yu-kai Chou.
Papers
- Hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades: Players who suit MUDs by Richard Bartle, 1996.
- I Have No Words & I Must Design: Toward a Critical Vocabulary for Games (25 pages, 2002) by Greg Costikyan.
- MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research by Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, Robert Zubek, Games AI Workshop, AAAI 2004 (earlier presented at Game Developers Conference in 2001). This paper introduced the MDA framework, which is summarized in this article: Mechanics, Dynamics & Aesthetics by Matthew Gallant.
- From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining "Gamification by Sebastian Deterding, Dan Dixon, Rilla Khaled & Lennart Nacke, MindTrek 2011.
- The Maturing of Gamification Research, L Nacke & C S Deterding, Computers in Human Behavior, pages 450-454, 2017.
Articles
- Pixar: Pixar Animation Process — Character Design. The Art of Storytelling by Pixar (Course at Khan Academy). Four Design Lessons from the Pixar team. Designing a Pixar Film (PDF).
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