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What to read after Shovel Knight by David L. Craddock: 24 titles sharing themes of Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs), Video & Mobile, Games, and Programming, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Teaching Coding Through Game Creation — Sarah Kepple

Teaching Coding Through Game Creation

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Persuasive Games The Expressive Power of Videogames — Ian Bogost

Persuasive Games The Expressive Power of Videogames

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Feminist War Games? Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games — Jon Saklofske

Feminist War Games? Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Learning Android Game Programming A Hands-on Guide to Building Your First Android Game — Richard A. Rogers

Learning Android Game Programming A Hands-on Guide to Building Your First Android Game

Richard A. Rogers

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

20 Essential Games to Study — Joshua Bycer

20 Essential Games to Study

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging — Cheryl Briggs

An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 Bring Your Game Ideas to Life Using the New Unreal Engine 5 and C++ — Goncalo Marques

Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 Bring Your Game Ideas to Life Using the New Unreal Engine 5 and C++

Goncalo Marques

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

The Ultimate Roblox Book: An Unofficial Guide Learn How to Build Your Own Worlds, Customize Your Games, and So Much More! — David Jagneaux

The Ultimate Roblox Book: An Unofficial Guide Learn How to Build Your Own Worlds, Customize Your Games, and So Much More!

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Quests Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives — Jeff Howard

Quests Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Building a Game Pitch How to Bottle Lightning — Arran Topalian

Building a Game Pitch How to Bottle Lightning

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

AI for Game Developers — Bourg, David M

AI for Game Developers

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

A Playful Production Process For Game Designers (and Everyone) — Richard Lemarchand

A Playful Production Process For Game Designers (and Everyone)

Richard Lemarchand

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Video Game of the Year A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977 — Jordan Minor

Video Game of the Year A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

The Ultimate Roblox Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition Learn How to Build Your Own Worlds, Customize Your Games, and So Much More! — David Jagneaux

The Ultimate Roblox Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition Learn How to Build Your Own Worlds, Customize Your Games, and So Much More!

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Ask Iwata — 岩田聡

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Procedural Storytelling in Game Design — Tanya X. Short

Procedural Storytelling in Game Design

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Perfect Organism An Alien: Isolation Companion — Andy Kelly

Perfect Organism An Alien: Isolation Companion

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

The Art of Game Design A Book of Lenses — Jesse Schell

The Art of Game Design A Book of Lenses

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Learning Game Physics with Bullet Physics and OpenGL — Chris Dickinson

Learning Game Physics with Bullet Physics and OpenGL

Chris Dickinson

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Dark Souls Beyond the Grave — Damien Mecheri

Dark Souls Beyond the Grave

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Press Reset Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry — Jason Schreier

Press Reset Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Game Design Workshop A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games — Tracy Fullerton

Game Design Workshop A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games

Tracy Fullerton

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++ — Nik Lever

Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

Minecraft The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything — Daniel Goldberg

Minecraft The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything

Daniel Goldberg

Themes: Video & Mobile • Games • Programming

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