Game and level design books

[shans]

Could you recommend me books about game and level design.Not about artistic or technical side of this process but how to make game or level interesting and enjoyable.

[musilowski]

Well for a good primer on dos and don'ts in level design I could suggest Sjoerd De Jong's The Hows and Whys of Level Design.

[Bellbird Creative]

Game design in general (not specific to video games but a great book to really understand what's happening under the hood):
Rules of Play

This one's great too: Game Design. It's more about understanding the game development pipeline plus some great design guidelines/tips/etc.

[pboost]

I am reading "3D Game Environments: Create Professional 3D Game Worlds" at the moment, it has some great tips on texturing, modeling, level optimization etcetc. It's written by Luke Ahearn.