What are your book recommendations for someone interested in computer game development?

I have a cousin who is graduating from gh School and is interested in computer game development. I am looking for a good graduation present for him, and would love some recommendations. I do not want a book about how to design levels, or how to learn a programming language - I'm sure he'll get plenty of that in school.

What I'm more interested in is something like a biography of a famous game designer, a book about the psychology of how to make a game fun and challenging, stories about what it's like to create games, and things of that nature. Not instruction manuals, more slice of life kinds of books so he might get a feel for what it's like to be a game developer, or the kinds of things they think about when designing a game. Asked by MightyCow_DontFollow 43 months ago Similar questions: book recommendations interested computer game development Consumer Electronics > Video Games.

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A list of some possibilities Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution The Soul Of A New Machine Soul is about hardware, Hackers is about early computer history, more directly related to games. I have read these, both are well written. See the reviews on Amazon for the rest of the list.

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic biographies of game developers, closest to what you asked for. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Ultimate story of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon Zap: The Rise and Fall of Atari Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children Dungeons and Desktops: The story of Computer Role-playing Games game history Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution about developing game hardware Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, and Other Top-Selling Games real world stories with developers supergrover's Recommendations Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Amazon List Price: $16.00 Used from: $6.003 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 81 reviews) The Soul Of A New Machine Amazon List Price: $14.99 Used from: $6.003 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 55 reviews) Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Amazon List Price: $16.007 Used from: $6.007 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 66 reviews) Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic Amazon List Price: $24.99 Used from: $6.008 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 17 reviews) The Ultimate story of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World Amazon List Price: $16.007 Used from: $6.007 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 67 reviews) Zap: The Rise and Fall of Atari Amazon List Price: $6.007 Used from: $16.008 Average Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 12 reviews) Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children Amazon List Price: $26.007 Used from: $6.008 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation and The Visionaries Who Conquered The World of Video Games Amazon List Price: $16.007 Used from: $26.009 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 8 reviews) Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution Amazon List Price: $24.95 Used from: $12.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 16 reviews) Dungeons and Desktops: The story of Computer Role-playing Games Amazon List Price: $36.007 Used from: $37.36 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 7 reviews) Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games Amazon List Price: $31.95 Used from: $7.73 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) .

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