Boss Fight Books
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Great books on classic video games. bossfightbooks.com Latest: ● Dragon Age II by Charlotte Reber ● Life is Strange by Kaitlin Tremblay ● Legend of the River King by Alexander B. Joy ● DDR by Jessica Doyle & Jordan Ferguson
Excited to be back at the Portland Retro Game Expo this year! We'll have a Boss Fight table on the expo floor, and we'll do a publishing panel with @retrogamebooks.com & @pixelsandpolygons.net. Oct 9-11: www.retrogamingexpo.com
Portland Retro Gaming Expo - Classic Video Game Convention - Portland, Oregon
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Hey y'all, my digital store uses a PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT system, with all my books and zines starting at just $1.99. Check it out and consider supporting my self-publishing biz!
Pixels and Polygons@pixelsandpolygons.net · 2mo agoHey visitor! Pixels and Polygons is the home of retro gaming-themed books, zines, podcasts, and more! To purchase physical copies, check out: pixelsandpolygons.net To buy digitally, check out: pixelsandpolygonsllc.gumroad.com Check out the podcast, Patreon, and more here: linktr.ee/darrenhupke
Happy #portfolioday! I'm currently seeking freelance and full-time graphic design, branding & illustration work. Get in touch: jackapedia.design
Happy birthday to Sebastian Deken's book on the music of FINAL FANTASY VI! The book came out on July 13, 2021.
Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian Deken
Release Date: July 13, 2021224 pagesISBN: 978-1-940535-28-9 Terra the magical half-human. Shadow the mysterious assassin. Celes the tough, tender general. Kefka the fool who would be god. Each of the…
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Piloting a site redesign! If you're up for it, take a little look and let me know what's working, what looks weird, what's missing, etc. bossfightbooks.com
Boss Fight Books * Great Books on Classic Video Games * Retro History
Chrono Trigger, Mega Man, Metal Gear Solid, Spelunky, Baldur's Gate, Warcraft, SotC, EarthBound, NBA Jam, Katamari, Star Wars KotOR, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Shovel Knight, Resident Evil, Silent...
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Me on your podcast when you invite me to talk about my SUPER MARIO GALAXY book
Boss Fight Books@bossfightbooks.com · last mo.Also in the printing (surprise!): Our 42nd book, SUPER MARIO GALAXY by @jordanwminor.bsky.social. I'm going to wait to debut the awesome cover alongside preorders. This book has been in the works since long before the movie of a similar name was announced -- so it's about the GAME, of course.
The goodreads page for AGE OF EMPIRES by @mossrc.bsky.social is up. To read?? www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
Age of Empires (Boss Fight Books, #41)
"Tony came in one day, out of the blue, and said to eve…
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If you read VGOTY you know I very much want my books to have Cool Art, and the cover for SUPER MARIO GALAXY won't disappoint
Just signed the contract on what's turned out to be our biggest & most complicated printing ever. [thread]
Thank you to Dominic and the folks at Geeks-line Publishing for sending a couple of nice-looking & hefty compendiums for our collection :)
Just finished reading @jickle.net's book about Untitled Goose Game called, uh, Untitled Goose Game. Perhaps my favorite book from Boss Fight Books
Just sent a big batch of books to @pinkgorillalas.bsky.social Las Vegas!
Amazing incredible wonderful opportunity to chat with Chris about the history of Batman video games and the Arkham series! Chris is a genius and crafted a fascinating conversation. And he let me plug that my book is coming out next year with @bossfightbooks.com!
Chris Plante@plante.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor $5, you get the history of Batman games from the person literally writing the book on the history of Batman games: @chrispanella.bsky.social You also get early ad-free episodes, weekly bonus segments, and a huge back catalogue of exclusive episodes!
I forgot that I called purple Hawke's snarky dialogue options "life goals" in this and I stand by it. Thanks @aeneas-nin.bsky.social for a great interview.
Boss Fight Books@bossfightbooks.com · 3mo ago"Lukas Kristjanson did tell me a pretty funny story about writing a line of dialogue so raunchy it left the entire writing team speechless." Today on the blog, @lexmcmenamin.com interviews @charlottereber.com about her book, DRAGON AGE II: bossfightbooks.com/blogs/news/q...
"Lukas Kristjanson did tell me a pretty funny story about writing a line of dialogue so raunchy it left the entire writing team speechless." Today on the blog, @lexmcmenamin.com interviews @charlottereber.com about her book, DRAGON AGE II: bossfightbooks.com/blogs/news/q...
Q&A with Charlotte Reber, author of DRAGON AGE II
Our latest book is Dragon Age II by Charlotte Reber. "This book is a blueprint for how to preserve a game’s legacy in writing," writes Aleks Franiczek in a review for RPGFan. Below, Legend of the Rive...
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If you're at #momocon this weekend, be sure to check out the DDR panel featuring our own Jessica Doyle! Sunday at 4pm. I'll share more info when I've got it. In the meantime, the book is here: bossfightbooks.com/products/dan...
Dance Dance Revolution by Jessica Doyle and Jordan Ferguson
Release Date: June 24, 2025ISBN: 978-1-940535-38-8192 pages On September 26, 1998, a video game made its debut in Japanese arcades. It was over seven feet tall and weighed just over 900 pounds. It had...
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Friends! The one and only @aeneas-nin.bsky.social, who has graced the pages of our very website with sundry pieces on games like Herald: Complete Edition and Legend of the Mystical Ninja (and a piece about Luigi with absolutely no subtext whatsoever) has published a book. A Boss Fight Book, no less!
Lex Joy@aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 9mo agoI have dreamed of this moment my entire life.
"This book is a blueprint for how to preserve a game’s legacy in writing." Congrats @charlottereber.com on the rave review of her book DRAGON AGE II in @rpgfan.bsky.social! www.rpgfan.com/feature/boss...
RPGFan Chapters Review: Boss Fight Books 'Dragon Age II' by Charlotte Reber | RPGFan
Under publisher Boss Fight Books, author Charlotte Reber tackles what makes Dragon Age II such a notable release from BioWare's storied history.
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If you love reading about the history & development of your favourite video games, you must check out this awesome series by @bossfightbooks.com : buff.ly/tH8UMlD #gamingculture
❤️ our new officemate is here ❤️ Just a heads up that I'll be part-time for May while the feeding schedule is at its most rigorous. And the time stamps on email replies may get weird!
Gabe Durham@gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 3mo agoThe baby arrived last week! @emmafyffe.bsky.social is recovering well & little Maisie Rose is doing great. The baby is getting some UV treatment for jaundice that should wrap up in a couple days, and from there we'll focus on fattening her up
Here are four screenshots of early dev builds for Age of Empires 1. The graphics, UI, and gameplay all went through huge amounts of iteration over 2+ years of development, and my new book recounts the journey: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab...
I'm getting the eBook. I've wasted far too many hours in Age of Empires to not to.
The Video Game Library 📚@thevideogamelibrary.org · 3mo agoDidn't want this one to get buried amongst the 100 other announcements in our Newsletter ☝️ Only a few hours left for @bossfightbooks.com's 41st entry: 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 Go check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab... @mossrc.bsky.social #Gaming #Booksky #AgeOfEmpires
just finished @bossfightbooks.com Animal Crossing by @kelslewin.bsky.social Loved it, esp as someone who grew up with the og. It was a mostly solitary game as an only child, but the book did resurface memories of a sleepover in 4th grade where I brought my GameCube to a friends to play together.
"These are people, not content machines. They have thoughts and feelings and mountains of personal baggage from their past that I need to dance around with only the faintest idea which items are the most fragile." -new Q&A with @mossrc.bsky.social bossfightbooks.com/blogs/news/q...
Q&A with Richard Moss, Author of Age of Empires
Our 41st book will be Age of Empires by Richard Moss, currently available for preorder on Kickstarter. Over email Richard and I discussed his own history with the game/genre, the art of interviewing, ...
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Now down to 47 hours!
Boss Fight Books@bossfightbooks.com · 4mo agoSix days left of our AGE OF EMPIRES campaign! If we hit $30k, backers will receive a free digital copy of @davidlcraddock.bsky.social's book, Bottomless Pit: Running and Jumping Through Platform Games - Volume 1. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab...
