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game designThis category page features the latest and most popular technology books focused on game design. It includes detailed descriptions of top-selling titles that teach skills like conceptualizing and playtesting games, designing gameplay systems, building game mechanics, and preparing games for live operations. The page also highlights new releases and trending books covering game design fundamentals, UX principles, monetization strategies, and tools like Unity and Unreal Engine.

Bestsellers

A range of our top selling game development products from the last year.

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Architectural Visualization in Unreal Engine 5
Architectural Visualization in Unreal En ...
Feb 2024Ellipse496 Pages

$39.99
The Modern Vulkan Cookbook
The Modern Vulkan Cookbook
Apr 2024Ellipse334 Pages

$35.99
Practical Game Design
Practical Game Design
Aug 2023Ellipse446 Pages

$39.99
Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5
Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal ...
May 2023Ellipse312 PagesEllipseHalf Star 5

$39.99
Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5
Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal E ...
Sep 2022Ellipse760 Pages

$63.99
Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles
Photorealistic Materials and Textures in ...
Oct 2023Ellipse394 Pages

$31.99
Game Physics Cookbook
Game Physics Cookbook
Mar 2017Ellipse480 Pages

$35.99
The Ultimate Roblox Game Building Cookbook
The Ultimate Roblox Game Building Cookbo ...
Dec 2023Ellipse218 Pages

$23.99
Building Games with Flutter
Building Games with Flutter
Jun 2022Ellipse224 Pages

$30.99
Getting Started with C++ Audio Programming for Game Development
Getting Started with C++ Audio Programmi ...
Aug 2013Ellipse116 Pages

$25.99

What's New

Our latest game development releases from the last few months.

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The Modern Vulkan Cookbook
The Modern Vulkan Cookbook
Apr 2024Ellipse334 Pages

$35.99
The Ultimate Roblox Game Building Cookbook
The Ultimate Roblox Game Building Cookbo ...
Dec 2023Ellipse218 Pages

$23.99
Architectural Visualization in Unreal Engine 5
Architectural Visualization in Unreal En ...
Feb 2024Ellipse496 Pages

$39.99

Rising Stars

Recently released game development books which are getting a lot of attention.

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The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0
The Essential Guide to Creating Multipla ...
Dec 2023Ellipse326 PagesEllipseHalf Star 1

$35.99
Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023
Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023
Oct 2023Ellipse548 PagesEllipseHalf Star 5

$43.99
Unity Cookbook
Unity Cookbook
Nov 2023Ellipse780 PagesEllipseHalf Star 3

$39.99
Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022
Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences wi ...
Nov 2023Ellipse566 Pages

$43.99
Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles
Photorealistic Materials and Textures in ...
Oct 2023Ellipse394 Pages

$31.99
XR Development with Unity
XR Development with Unity
Nov 2023Ellipse284 Pages

$31.99

Audience Favourites

Our most rated game development products by our Customers.

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Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5
Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal ...
May 2023Ellipse312 Pages

$39.99

Quick Learns

Our game development books which are under 200 pages long.

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Haxe Game Development Essentials
Haxe Game Development Essentials
Nov 2015Ellipse188 Pages

$21.99
Getting Started with C++ Audio Programming for Game Development
Getting Started with C++ Audio Programmi ...
Aug 2013Ellipse116 Pages

$25.99
Gamesalad Essentials
Gamesalad Essentials
Jan 2015Ellipse154 Pages

$16.99

Beginner's Corner

Our top picks for starting your game development journey.

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Gamification with Unity 5.x
Gamification with Unity 5.x
Nov 2016Ellipse328 Pages

$39.99
Google SketchUp for Game Design: Beginner's Guide
Google SketchUp for Game Design: Beginne ...
Nov 2011Ellipse270 Pages

$28.99
Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook
Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookb ...
Feb 2012Ellipse544 Pages

$36.99
Unity Character Animation with Mecanim
Unity Character Animation with Mecanim
Sep 2015Ellipse290 Pages

$43.99
Gamesalad Essentials
Gamesalad Essentials
Jan 2015Ellipse154 Pages

$16.99
Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X
Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X
Jun 2017Ellipse404 Pages

$39.99
Game Physics Cookbook
Game Physics Cookbook
Mar 2017Ellipse480 Pages

$35.99
Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5
Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal E ...
Sep 2022Ellipse760 Pages

$63.99

2024 Essentials

The must-have game development books and resources for this year.

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The Modern Vulkan Cookbook
The Modern Vulkan Cookbook
Apr 2024Ellipse334 Pages

$35.99
Architectural Visualization in Unreal Engine 5
Architectural Visualization in Unreal En ...
Feb 2024Ellipse496 Pages

$39.99

Express Tutorials

Learn core game development skills and be productive within two hours.

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Unreal Engine 5 - Environment Design
Unreal Engine 5 - Environment Design
Aug 2022Ellipse71 minutes

$19.99

Career Pathways

A collection of reading lists made by our expert authors to help get you your next job.
Getting Started with Unity Game DevelopmentGetting Started with Unity Game DevelopmentGetting Started with Unity Game Development
Getting Started with Unity Game DevelopmentAn enjoyable and intuitive approach to getting started with C# programming and Unity game development. This reading list will help you build a solid foundation in Unity and discover techniques to create impressive 2D/3D games, cross-platform mobile g ...

Popular Authors (5)

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Mr. Harrison Ferrone
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Harrison Ferrone is an instructional content creator for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight, tech editor for the Ray Wenderlich website, and used to write technical documentation on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College, Chicago. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back.
Most popular book by Mr. Harrison Ferrone
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2019
Sergey Kosarevsky
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Sergey Kosarevsky is a software engineer with experience in C++ and 3D graphics. He worked for mobile industry companies and was involved in mobile projects at SPB Software, Yandex, Layar and Blippar. He has more than 12 years of software development experience and more than 6 years of Android NDK experience. Sergey got his PhD in the field of mechanical engineering from St. Petersburg Institute of Machine-Building in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In his spare time, Sergey maintains and develops an open source multiplatform gaming engine, the Linde...
Most popular book by Sergey Kosarevsky
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Kumsal Obuz
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Kumsal Obuz is a self taught, but veteran web developer with more than 15 years of experience in two different countries, leading teams and projects of various sizes. After several years of preparation and transition, he started his own game studio in August 2020. He launched a small puzzle strategy game at the end of 2020 and is currently working on an ambitious farming simulation game. He also likes to mentor, perhaps due to his genetic background since both of his parents are teachers, and because of his love of Godot, founded and still orga...
Most popular book by Kumsal Obuz
Game Development with Blender and Godot
Gonçalo Marques
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Gonçalo Marques has been an active gamer since the age of 6. He has been using Unreal Engine since 2016 and has done freelance and consulting work using the engine. Gonçalo also released a free and open source plugin called UI Navigation, which has garnered an extremely positive reception with over 100,000 downloads and is still receiving frequent updates and fixes. Thanks to the development of this plugin, he became an Epic MegaGrant recipient. He is now working at Funcom ZPX, a game studio in Lisbon that has contributed to games such as Conan...
Most popular book by Gonçalo Marques
Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine
Mr. Oscar Baechler
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Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.
Most popular book by Mr. Oscar Baechler
Blender 3D By Example