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You should check out Ralph Koster's A Theory of Fun, and Keith Burgun's Clockwork Game Design.

Those were the "eye openers" for me.

Not sure what you mean by "follow" exactly. The content is different, although the theoretical framework is the same. Actually, it's a bit more developed, as I wrote my book in 2012 and I've been able to tighten it up a lot since then. In fact, I spent much of this year writing a new book called Clockwork Game Design which will be available next year.

If you want to make interesting mechanical game i suggest you Clockwork Game Design from Keith Burgun

In this discussion i wrote some more information and links.

Highly recommend Clockwork Gamedesign