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    Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
    by Tynan Sylvester

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    The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
    by Jesse Schell & Jesse Schell

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    Theory of Fun for Game Design
    by Raph Koster

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    Characteristics of Games (The MIT Press)
    by George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera, Peter Whitley & Eric Zimmerman

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    Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design (Voices That Matter)
    by Ernest Adams & Joris Dormans

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