• Bartle, Richard. Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders Games, 2003.
• Bates, Bob. Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games. Muska & Lipman, 2002.
• Crawford, Chris. Chris Crawford On Game Design. New Riders Games, 2003.
• DeMaria, Rusel; Wilson, Johnny L. High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003.
• Freeman, David. Creating Emotion in Games: The Craft and Art of Emotioneering. New Riders Publishing, 2003.
• Friedl, Markus. Online Game Interactivity Theory. Charles River Media, 2002.
• Glassner, Andrew. Interactive Storytelling: Techniques for 21st Century Fiction. AK Peters, Ltd., 2004.
• Graham, Paul. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O’Reilly, 2004.
• Herz, J.C. Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds. Little Brown & Co., 1997.
• Koster, Raph. Theory of Fun for Game Design. Paraglyph, 2004.
• Laramee, Francois Dominic. Game Design Perspectives. Charles River Media, 2002.
• Miller, Carolyn Handler. Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment. Focal Press, 2004.
• Mulligan, Jessica; Patrovsky, Bridgette. Developing Online Games: An Insider’s Guide. New Riders Games, 2003.
• Poole, Steven. Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution. Arcade Publishing, 2004.
• Ray, Sheri Graner. Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market. Charles River Media, 2003.
• Rollings, Andrew; Adams, Ernest. Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams On Game Design. New Riders Publishing, 2003
• Rollings, Andrew; Morris, Dave. Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition. New Riders Games, 2003.
• Sheldon, Lee. Character Development and Storytelling for Games. Muska & Lipman, 2004.
• Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press, 1997.
• Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, 2001.
• Zimmerman, Eric; Salen, Katie. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. The MIT Press, 2003.

I’m also planning to subscribe to The Journal of Game Development and Game Developer’s Magazine.
It’s going to be an awesome semester. Hard, but awesome. It’s an exciting time to be getting into games, as anyone who has been following the GDC proceedings will attest. I can’t wait.