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Unit Operations on 50 Books for Everyone
by Ian Bogost October 16, 2006
categories: Game Design

Ernest Adams, Game design consultant and co-author of the just-released textbook Fundamentals of Game Design, has written a list of 50 Books for Everyone in the Game Industry. I was honored to see that my book Unit Operations made the list, along with a number of other academic books on games, including Jesper Juul's Half-Real and Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck. Egoblogging aside, this is a really great list, check it out.