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Game Design and Development: How to Find Books and eBooks

This guide is designed for students in the Game Design and Development A.A.S. (Associate in Applied Science) program.

Finding Books

There are many search terms you can use to find books, articles, and journals. A few are listed below. You can type them into the search box on the UCNJ Libraries Home Page. 

Search Terms for Game Design and Development

computer games

computer games programming

computer games design

computer animation

computer games social aspects

video games

video games design

video games social aspects

digital storytelling

artificial intelligence

Video games psychological aspects

Video game industry

Video game characters

Keywords from course descriptions

Recommended Game Design Courses with keywords based on course descriptions

COM 105 -- Storytelling for Digital Media

Keywords: Storytelling, Digital Media, Videogames

FIA 104    -- Fundamentals of 2D Design

Keywords: 2D Design

GDP 101  -- Fundamentals of Game Design

Keywords: Game Design, Game Designer, Story in games, game design documents, game mechanics

GDP 112  -- Introduction to Game Programming

Keywords: Game programming, game engine, object-oriented programming, 2D games, 3D games

GDP 115  -- The Business of Game Development

Keywords: Game industry, game development industry

GDP 201  -- Digital Animation for Games

Keywords: Digital animation, computer graphics, 2D animation, 3D animation

GDP 212  -- Artificial Intelligence for Games

Keywords: Artificial intelligence techniques, Artificial intelligence algorithms, machine learning

GDP 215  -- 3D Game Graphics Programming

Keywords: 3D games, 3D graphics

GDP 280  -- Game Design and Development Capstone

Keywords: game development

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