On board games
Here is a selection of books and other resources about board games. It came after a flurry of emails on academic listserv. Thank you to all of those who have suggested materials for this short bibliography !
Material on the Internet (aka “free stuff”)
- Matthew B Caffrey Jr. (2019) Wargaming: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape The Future. Naval War College (U.S.). Press
- Gaming the Stage
- Board Game Studies (Issues 1-9; 10-12)
- Design/industry perspective on collaborative board games: MeeplesTogether
- AnalogGameStudies
Print or published material (aka “stuff you purchase or borrow from a library”)
| Author | Title | Place of Publication | Country of Origin | Publisher | Copyright Year |
| Tobin, Joseph | Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon | Durham : | United States | Duke University Press | 2004 |
| Parlett, David | Parlett’s History of Board Games: By the Author of the Oxford History of Board Games | Brattleboro | United States | Echo Point Books and Media | 2018 |
| Bell, R. C. | Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations | New York : | United States | Dover Publications | 1980 |
| Finkel, I. L. | Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum Colloquium | London | United Kingdom | British Museum Press | 2007 |
| Peterson, Jon | Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games | San Diego, USA | United States | Unreason Press | 2012 |
| Arnaudo, Marco | Storytelling in the Modern Board Game : Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today : Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today | Jefferson, UNITED STATES | United States | McFarland & Company, Inc. | 2018 |
| Murray, Harold James Ruthren | A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess | Oxford | United Kingdom | Oxbow Books | 2002 |
| Engelstein, Geoffrey | Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design : An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms | Boca Raton, FL : | United States | Taylor & Francis | 2019 |
| Parlett, David | Oxford Guide to Card Games | New York, USA | United States | Oxford University Press | 1990 |
| Livingstone, Ian | Board Games in 100 Moves | London | United Kingdom | DK Publishing | 2019 |
| Woods, Stewart | Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games | Jefferson, USA | United States | McFarland & Company, Inc. | 2012 |
| Booth, Paul | Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games | New York, USA | United States | Bloomsbury Academic | 2015 |
| Knizia, Reiner | New Tactical Games with Dice and Cards | Blue Terrier Press | 2019 |
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