There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically game designers, the Inside Gaming by The MIT Press bundle. This is a collection of e-books from MIT Press on a wide range of gaming topics, mostly around design or game development history on classic machines.
As with all Humble Bundles it is organized into tiers. If you buy a higher dollar value tier, you get all the of lower priced tiers as well. The tiers include:
1$ Tier
Atari To Zelda: Japan’s Video Games in Global Contexts
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World
Mid Tier
How Pac Man Eats
Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America
A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Video Games
Super Power, Spoony Bards and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
$15 Tier
Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons and Dragons
Virtual Reality
The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forge Their Identity
Racing the Bean: The Atari Video Computer System
How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design
Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
The Well-Played Game: A Player’s Philosophy
Critical Play: Radical Game Design
Play Matters
Uncertainty in Games
Values at Play in Digital Games
Homebrew Gaming and the Beginning of Vernacular Digitality
Achievement Relocked: Love Aversion and Game Design
Developer’s Dilemma: The Secret World of Video Game Creators
Handmade Pixels: The Independent Video Games and The Quest of Authenticity
Who Are You? Nintendo Game Boy Advance
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