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• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

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

• Modern Design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890-1990 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams, 1990), by R. Craig Miller, illust. by Mark Darley (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Stick Chair Book (revised edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2023), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• Bare Witness (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Christian Dior (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Madame Grès (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Marcia Lippman (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union After the Second World War (Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Jukka Gronow and S. V. Zhuravlev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union After the Second World War (Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Jukka Gronow and S. V. Zhuravlev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)

• John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening, ed. by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening, ed. by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850, ed. by Michel Conan (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)