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mobile game developmentDiscover the latest and most popular mobile game development books to help you design, build, and publish engaging games for iOS and Android. Learn techniques like responsive UI design, augmented reality integration, and advanced Unity features from top authors. Whether you're a beginner looking to get started or a professional wanting to level up your skills, these books on game programming, SpriteKit, Unity, Cocos2D, and more have what you need.

Bestsellers

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

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.NET MAUI Projects
.NET MAUI Projects
Feb 2024Ellipse630 Pages

$41.99
Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development
Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development
Jun 2023Ellipse480 Pages

$41.99
Learning Java by Building Android Games
Learning Java by Building Android Games
Mar 2021Ellipse686 Pages

$30.99
Swift Game Development
Swift Game Development
Sep 2018Ellipse434 Pages

$39.99
Learning Java by Building Android  Games
Learning Java by Building Android Games
Aug 2018Ellipse774 Pages

$39.99
Android Game Programming by Example
Android Game Programming by Example
Jun 2015Ellipse388 Pages

$39.99
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Nov 2013Ellipse320 Pages

$32.99
Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development
Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Developm ...
Feb 2015Ellipse212 Pages

$28.99
Learning Unity iOS Game Development
Learning Unity iOS Game Development
Sep 2015Ellipse230 Pages

$39.99
iOS Game Development By Example
iOS Game Development By Example
Aug 2015Ellipse220 Pages

$39.99

What's New

Our latest game development releases from the last few months.

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.NET MAUI Projects
.NET MAUI Projects
Feb 2024Ellipse630 Pages

$41.99

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

Quick Learns

Our game development books which are under 200 pages long.

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Cocos2d Game Development Essentials
Cocos2d Game Development Essentials
Jan 2015Ellipse136 Pages

$19.99
Gideros Mobile Game Development
Gideros Mobile Game Development
Nov 2013Ellipse154 Pages

$22.99
Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0
Building your First Mobile Game using XN ...
Jan 2013Ellipse158 Pages

$25.99

Beginner's Corner

Our top picks for starting your game development journey.

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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide
Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Begi ...
Apr 2012Ellipse408 Pages

$32.99
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Nov 2013Ellipse320 Pages

$32.99
Cocos2d Game Development Essentials
Cocos2d Game Development Essentials
Jan 2015Ellipse136 Pages

$19.99
Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials
Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Es ...
Nov 2012Ellipse318 Pages

$32.99
Learning AndEngine
Learning AndEngine
Sep 2014Ellipse286 Pages

$25.99
Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Unity Android Game Development by Exampl ...
Dec 2013Ellipse320 Pages

$28.99
Gideros Mobile Game Development
Gideros Mobile Game Development
Nov 2013Ellipse154 Pages

$22.99
Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0
Building your First Mobile Game using XN ...
Jan 2013Ellipse158 Pages

$25.99
Mastering iOS Game Development
Mastering iOS Game Development
Dec 2015Ellipse228 Pages

$39.99
iOS Game Development By Example
iOS Game Development By Example
Aug 2015Ellipse220 Pages

$39.99

2024 Essentials

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

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.NET MAUI Projects
.NET MAUI Projects
Feb 2024Ellipse630 Pages

$41.99

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