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Game Design Subject Guide
Game Design Industry
- Game on : energize your business with social media games (2011)
- Glued to games : how video games draw us in and hold us spellbound (2011)
- How to do things with videogames (2011)
- 1001 video games you must play before you die (2010)
- A casual revolution : reinventing video games and their players (2010)
- Extra lives : why video games matter (2010)
- Fun Inc. : why gaming will dominate the twenty-first century (2010)
- Hollywood gamers : digital convergence in the film and video game industries (2010)
- Replay : the history of video games (2010)
- Video games (2010)
- Team leadership in the game industry (2009)
- Becoming a digital designer : a guide to careers in Web, video, broadcast, game, + animation design (2008)
- Game sound : an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of video game music and sound design (2008)
- Video game careers (2008)
Educational Gaming
Game Production
- Game design secrets: do what you never thought possible to market and monetize your iOS, Facebook and web games (2012)
- Maya Python for games and film : a complete reference for the Maya Python and the Maya Python API (2012)
- Professional HTML5 mobile game development (2012)
- ActionScript 3.0 game programming university (2011)
- Beginner's guide to digital painting in Photoshop (2011)
- Gamification by design : implementing game mechanics in web and mobile apps (2011)
- The game audio tutorial : a practical guide to sound and music for interactive games (2011)
- Fundamentals of game design (2010)
- Level up! : the guide to great video game design (2010)
- Maya for games : modeling and texturing techniques with Maya and Mudbox (2009)
- Game coding complete (2009)
- Game development essentials : game audio development (2009)
- The complete guide to game audio : for composers, musicians, sound designers, and game developers (2009)
- Game usability : advancing the player experience (2008)
- Game design workshop : a playcentric approach to creating innovative games (2008)
- Architectural geometry (2007)
- The ultimate guide to video game writing and design (2007)
- Chris Crawford on interactive storytelling (2005)
Game Art
Concept Art
Character Design
eBooks
- Games and gaming: an introduction to new media (2012)
- Digital painting fundamentals with Corel Painter X (2011)
- Players unleashed!: modding The sims and the culture of gaming (2011)
- Flash 10 multiplayer game essentials: create exciting real-time multiplayer games using Flash (2010)
- Hollywood gamers: digital convergence in the film and video game industries (2010)
- Digital painting techniques (2009)
- The art of videogames (2009)
- From Pac-Man to pop music : interactive audio in games and new media (2008)
- Game cultures : computer games as new media (2006)
- Play between worlds : exploring online game culture (2006)
Current Subscriptions
- 3D World
- A Journal (Available online)
- Animation Magazine (Available online)
- Bluecanvas
- Computer Graphics World (Available online)
- Game Developer (Available online)
- ImagineFX
- Wired (Available online)
- Creature and character design : concept sketching with Sang Jun Lee (2011)
- Environment art direction for games. Vol. 2, Painting concepts (2011)
- History of animation (2011)
- Shots, No. 129 : Ben Gregor : Cannes contenders : video game ads (2011)
- Character modeling for next-gen games [DVD-ROM] : modeling and sculpting with Richard Smith (2009)
- Building creatures using ZBrush (2006)
- Character animation for games [DVD-ROM] (2006)
- Body modeling for games [DVD-ROM] (2005)
- Head modeling for games [DVD-ROM] (2005)
Articles and Reference Resources
- Digital Tutors
- You must sign up with your Academy of Art University email address (@art.edu or @academyart.edu). For more information see the Digital Tutors FAQ page.
- ebrary – Full Text Online Books
- Full Text Online Journal and Magazine Articles
Image Websites
Blogs
Job Websites
Professional Organizations
Grant Information
Other Websites
- The Animator's Survival Kit
- Sound Effects:
- Sirocco Sound Effects CD-ROMs
- BBC Sound Effects Library CD-ROMs
- Animal trax CD-ROMs (animal sounds)
- The Designer Sound Library CD-ROMs
- Extreme Music Library CD-ROMs
- Dynamic range / Sonic Boon digital sound effects CD-ROMs
- The Historical series / The Hollywood Edge CD-ROMs
- Lost treasuers of Hanna Barbera sound FX library CD-ROMs
- Image Resources in the Library
- Picture Files
- Safari Technical Books are available with a San Francisco Public Library Card.
- Includes books on Game Design, Animation, Maya, Adobe Flash, and more.
- San Jose Public Library and Berkeley Public Library users (with a library card) may also access Safari Books Online through those library websites.
- For Non Bay Area Students, check out your local public library for online access to technical manuals or for technical manuals in their physical collection.
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