Author: Harro Grönberg Publisher: ISBN: 9789526964201 Category : Languages : en Pages : 116
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The game designers behind such hits as Angry Birds, Boom Beach, Cities: Skylines, Trials, Clash Royale, Max Payne have learned plenty of trial-and-error lessons while creating an amazing array of world class gaming success stories. All of them have one thing in common: Finland. Today Finland is recognized internationally as a power nation among game developers - punching well above its weight, when it comes to gaming successes. The capital Helsinki alone has over 50 game studios and more are popping up monthly. Game industry insiders Konsta Klemetti and Harro Grönberg decipher the secret sauce of Finnish game design by interviewing eleven award-winning, fearless designers from the cool North to talk about the best practices in engaging players and how they avoid the common pitfalls of game design. Their tips and ideas will come in handy for anyone looking to learn how to create video games for any platform. www.gamedesignerconfessions.com
Author: Bill Kunkel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 190
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In 1981 Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz founded Electronic Games magazine, the first magazine devoted entirely to the new generation of plugged-in entertainment from video and computer games to hand-helds, tabletop games, coin-ops and even state-of-the-art military and training simulators. Although the magazine only lasted just a few issues past its third birthday, it is still regarded as one of the finest game magazines ever published. Now, Bill Kunkel, a.k.a. The Game Doctor, reveals the untold stories behind both the magazine, and the people who brought us the 'classic' era of electronic gaming, along with other personal memoirs ranging from his early days as a comic book writer and rock guitarist to the sad saga of how his lifelong dream of becoming The Batman became the basis of a nightmarish movie/computer game tie-in experience. Whether you're a fan of videogames, comic books, or simply love to hear good inside stories told with a spark of wit and candor, gather round. Confessions of the Game Doctor is just what the doctor ordered.
Author: Mike Winterbauer Publisher: ISBN: 9781320764742 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This book is a must read for computer gamers and artists who enjoy classic cover art of some of their favorite games. The book is visually beautiful and showcases all the classic covers I painted between 1985 and 1994. It also describes what it was like getting the commissions and painting them. This is a fun read for any one interested in being an artist and wondering what it is like to create classic cover art for games and movies. Told candidly and with a sense of humor you can learn the nostalgic history behind these paintings and many of my other paintings not lost to the digital age.
Author: Nicolas Cole Publisher: ISBN: 9780998203409 Category : Languages : en Pages : 225
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When people think of World of Warcraft, they think of a socially awkward, acne-faced teenager with "no life." Confessions of a Teenage Gamer challenges those stereotypes and shows how a kid from a wealthy family with every opportunity at his fingertips ended up finding himself in a video game. Confessions of a Teenage Gamer is funny in its honest retellings of teenage puberty, witty in its commentary on rich suburban life, and thought provoking in a way that questions the meaning behind success and happiness. This true story draws parallels between sports, music, and video games-and shows how, at the core, they teach many of the same lessons. With a successful spine surgeon for a father, a music teacher for a mother, and a house full of driven, high-achieving siblings, Nicolas Cole's Confessions of a Teenage Gamer shows how far one boy will go to chase his dream of becoming a professional gamer.
Author: Joshua Bycer Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1000451011 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 145
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The Game Design Deep Dive series examines a specific game system or mechanic over the course of the history of the industry. This entry will examine the history and design of the horror genre and elements in video games. The author analyzes early video game examples, including the differences between survival, action-horror, and psychological horror. Thanks to recent hits like Five Night’s at Freddy’s, Bendy and the Ink Machine, and recent Resident Evil titles, the horror genre has seen a strong resurgence. For this book in the Game Design Deep Dive series, Joshua Bycer will go over the evolution of horror in video games and game design, and what it means to create a terrifying and chilling experience. FEATURES • Written for anyone interested in the horror genre, anyone who wants to understand game design, or anyone simply curious from a historical standpoint • Includes real game examples to highlight the discussed topics and mechanics • Explores the philosophy and aspects of horror that can be applied to any medium • Serves as a perfect companion for someone building their first game or as part of a game design classroom Joshua Bycer is a game design critic with more than eight years of experience critically analyzing game design and the industry itself. In that time, through Game-Wisdom, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games. He also strives to raise awareness about the importance of studying game design by giving lectures and presentations. His first book was 20 Essential Games to Study. He continues to work on the Game Design Deep Dive series.
Author: Thomas Waugh Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0228000653 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 547
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In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the internet and its cataclysmic cultural and social technological shifts have unleashed a third sexual revolution, crystallized in the acts and rituals of confession that are a staple of our twenty-first-century lives. In I Confess!, a collection of thirty original essays, leading international scholars such as Ken Plummer, Susanna Paasonen, Tom Roach, and Shohini Ghosh explore the ideas of confession and sexuality in moving image arts and media, mostly in the Global North, over the last quarter century. Through self-referencing or autobiographical stories, testimonies, and performances, and through rigorously scrutinized case studies of "gay for pay," gaming, camming, YouTube uploads, and the films Tarnation and Nymph()maniac, the contributors describe a spectrum of identities, desires, and related representational practices. Together these desires and practices shape how we see, construct, and live our identities within this third sexual revolution, embodying both its ominous implications of surveillance and control and its utopian glimmers of community and liberation. Inspired by theorists from Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze to Gayle Rubin and José Esteban Muñoz, I Confess! reflects an extraordinary, paradigm-shifting proliferation of first-person voices and imagery produced during the third sexual revolution, from the eve of the internet to today.
Author: Caprice Crane Publisher: Feiwel & Friends ISBN: 1250008476 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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High school was pretty much like this huge party I wasn't actually invited to, but I still had to show up to every day. Hailey Harper has always felt invisible. Now her dad has a new job and the family is moving to Hollywood. Just what Hailey needs: starting a new high school. As she's packing, Hailey finds a journal that belonged to her older sister, Noel, who is away at college. Called "How to be a Hater," it's full of info Hailey can really use. Has Hailey found the Bible of Coolness? Will it help her reinvent herself at her new school? Will her crush notice her? Will she and the other Invisibles dethrone the popular mean girls? After all, they deserve it. Don't they? In Confessions of a Hater, Caprice Crane's funny—and deeply felt—observations about high school, bullies, popularity, friendship, and romance will leave teens thinking . . . and talking.
Author: Sarah Forester Davis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 411
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Are YOU ready to fall in love with Bodhi and Eva? Seventeen-year-old Bodhi Bishop knows three things for certain about his life. First, never ask his single, free-spirited mom any questions about his dad. Second, he met his soulmate when he was twelve. And third, he will forever walk around an empty shell of a person since losing his soulmate. Seventeen-year-old Eva Calloway knows three things for certain about her life. First, never disobey her callous, upper-class parents. Second, she met her soulmate when she was twelve. And third, she'll do whatever it takes to protect her soulmate even if that means she never sees him again. Bodhi Bishop and Eva Calloway, teenagers growing up in Flagler Beach, Florida, knew they were soulmates from an early age. An unfortunate accident forces them apart when they're fourteen, and they spend the next three years trying to navigate through life without each other, failing miserably. When a tragic event occurs, bringing them back together, they dive head first into their very own epic love story. Instantly, they find their relationship becomes intertwined with secrets of the past and perilous moments, making them both realize nothing in Flagler is ever how it seems. As each day goes by, they expose more lies and pieces of this chilling puzzle, questioning who they can trust and if they should indeed uncover the truth. Will they unearth these life changing secrets that both their families have kept hidden for so many years? Are they solving a mystery that needs to be solved? Or are they unnecessarily making themselves players in a dangerous game that will end up costing them both of their lives? "Make this book into a movie!" "I enjoyed this book so much that I finished it in just over 24 hours!" "This book had me hooked right from the start." "Absolutely loved falling in love with Bodhi and Eva." "I haven't read a good book in awhile, and I couldn't put this book down." Want to read more about Bodhi and Eva? Head over to Instagram. #BodhiandEva
Author: Thomas N. Shaw Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 9781312878327 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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Greg Costikyan, historian and highly acclaimed game designer, cited Avalon Hill as the "greatest game company that ever lived." This is the story of my involvement in its rise to such glory. To borrow the words of noted historian/author Doris Kearns Goodwin, ""I could not tell the story of my involvement without telling the story of my life that led up to it."
Author: Harro Grönberg
Author: Bill Kunkel
Author: Mike Winterbauer
Author: Nicolas Cole
Author: Jesper Juul
Author: Joshua Bycer
Author: Thomas Waugh
Author: Caprice Crane
Author: Sarah Forester Davis
Author: Thomas N. Shaw