r/gamedev · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/gamedev during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/gamedev within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Cover of Game Engine Architecture

Game Engine Architecture

Jason Gregory

A former Naughty Dog engineer walks the full stack of a shipped 3D engine, memory allocator to renderer to gameplay systems, in one very long textbook.

Cover of Design Patterns

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

Cover of Clean Code

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

Cover of Theory of Fun for Game Design

Theory of Fun for Game Design

Raph Koster

Raph Koster argues that fun is just the brain's name for the feeling of learning something new, whether the game is Tetris or chess.

Cover of Cracking the Coding Interview

Cracking the Coding Interview

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The book credited with inventing the modern coding interview, argued about like it's also on trial for it.

Cover of The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

A cognitive scientist argues that when you can't open a door or use a stove, the door and stove are broken — not you.

Cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Six chapters into Scheme, you're writing an interpreter for a language you invented an hour ago.

Cover of The Mythical Man-Month

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

Cover of C++ Primer

C++ Primer

Stanley B. Lippman

The reference you keep open next to the keyboard once C++ stops handing you training wheels.

Cover of Code Complete

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell's seven-hundred-page argument that construction, not design or testing, is where most software quality is actually won or lost.

Cover of Grokking Algorithms

Grokking Algorithms

Aditya Y. Bhargava

A cartoon-illustrated walkthrough of binary search, sorting, and graphs aimed at people who bounced off Introduction to Algorithms.

Cover of Modern Software Engineering

Modern Software Engineering

David Farley

Dave Farley argues the real gap between a 10x engineer and everyone else is how much rework they eliminate before it ever happens.

Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.