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• Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024), ed. by Douglas Eyman, Li Guo, and Hongmei Sun (JSTOR ebook)

• Game Design Snacks: Easily Digestible Game Design Wisdom (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2017), ed. by José P. Zagal (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2012), ed. by Erik Champion (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Real-Time Research: Improvisational Game Scholarship (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2010), ed. by Seann Dikkers, Eric Zimmerman, Kurt Squire, and Constance Steinkuehler (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2024), by Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• The Transformational Framework: A Process Tool for the Development of Transformational Games (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), by Sabrina Culyba (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2017), by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, and Brendesha M. Tynes (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Patrick LeMieux and Stephanie Boluk (JSTOR ebook)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)
• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Game Design Research: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2017), ed. by Petri Lankoski and Jussi Holopainen (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Rysʹ (Kn-vo O. Kirkhner, 1923), by N. A. Tėffi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rysʹ (Kn-vo O. Kirkhner, 1923), by N. A. Tėffi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Regulation of violent video games and the First Amendment (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)

• Program Arcade Games With Python And Pygame (c2017), by Paul Vincent Craven (illustrated HTML with commentary at programarcadegames.com)
• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (fourth edition, 2016), by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
• Game Programming Patterns (web version, down the page, is free to access; 2014), by Robert Nystrom (illustrated HTML with commentary at gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
• Making Games with Python and Pygame (c2012), by Al Sweigart (HTML and PDF with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
• ShaderX2: Introductions and Turorials With DirectX 9 (Plano, TX: Wordware Publishing, c2004), ed. by Wolfgang F. Engel (PDF at acm.org)
• ShaderX2: Shader Programming Tips and Tricks With DirectX 9 (Plano, TX: Wordware Publishing, c2004), ed. by Wolfgang F. Engel (PDF at acm.org)
• Direct3D ShaderX: Vertex and Pixel Shader Tips and Tricks (Plano, TX: Wordware Publishing, c2002), ed. by Wolfgang F. Engel (PDF at acm.org)
• Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2012), ed. by Erik Champion (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Real-Time Research: Improvisational Game Scholarship (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2010), ed. by Seann Dikkers, Eric Zimmerman, Kurt Squire, and Constance Steinkuehler (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Software Engineering and Computer Games (Harlow, UK et al.: Addison-Wesley, c2003), by Rudy v. B. Rucker (PDF with commentary at rudyrucker.com)
• Programming Linux Games, by Loki Software and John R. Hall (PDF in France)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)

• Scratch 3 Programming Playground, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithscratch.com)

• Conceptual Design Energy Analysis Tool (CDEAT) research & development : final report (California Energy Commission, 2002), by Thomas P Conlon, John F Kennedy, Patrick J Bailey, California Energy Commission. Public Interest Energy Research, and Inc GeoPraxis (page images at HathiTrust)

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