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24 alternatives to The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

Ryan Hoover's fave book on The Twenty Minute VC

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    The basic handbook of transactional analysis

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A book about designing animations for iOS

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Solid advice and awesome analogies

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Narrative Skills for Videogames

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    An interactive field guide to expand the popular video game

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    From 8-bit to 3D, great coffee table book

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Going from first time designer to published and full time

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A look at how games make us feel

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Free e-book. UX best practices from real projects.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A step-by-step playbook for product teams

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Game designer's experience on getting a game published

    2016 · its alternatives →

  13. 13IM

    Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Interviews and play testing with designers and publishers

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Exploring game design through a variety of perspectives

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    An experience design framework

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A great source of design inspiration

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A healthy mash of Lean, Design Thinking and Agile "up front"

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A free eBook about UX design and rapid app prototyping

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Beyond points, badges and leaderboards

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    A tiny book of design exercises

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Shape▲81

    A letter shaping game

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Interviews with influential designers

    2015 · its alternatives →

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