Books
Theory of Fun for Game Design
https://amzn.to/3PDapAS
Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Fourth Edition
https://amzn.to/3LhqRFG
Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
https://amzn.to/3N0lU5x
Game Usability: Advice from the Experts for Advancing UX Strategy and Practice in Videogame
https://amzn.to/4gUOMYZ
Good for anybody and extra useful for teaching game design
Challenges for Game Designers
https://amzn.to/4gMleg1
The Rules We break
https://amzn.to/40xky8B
Rules of Play
https://amzn.to/4aiONTT
Research
Player motivations: A psychological perspective
Barbaros Bostan
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1541895.1541902
More to come!