Find out the real story behind making a video game in Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: $3 (Reg. $11)

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HarperCollins Publishers via Amazon offers Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made as a Kindle eBook for $2.99. Also at Google Play. Normally $11 for the eBook, you’d still expect to pay that much for a paperback as well and this is the best available. If you’ve ever wondered what goes into making a video game, this book is a great read. It’s both a national and Amazon bestseller with 4.7/5 stars.

If you don’t already have a Kindle to read it on, Amazon’s latest Paperwhite is a great option. If you don’t want to spend $130 on a Kindle, Amazon always has its refurbished original E-Reader for $60 shipped.

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels:

Developing video games—hero’s journey or fool’s errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today’s hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius.