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Author: Alison Gazzard Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786467940 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 191
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From the text adventures of Zork, to the arcade game of Pac-Man, to the corridors of Doom, and on to the city streets of Grand Theft Auto IV, the maze has often been used as a space to trap and confuse players in their navigation of gameworlds. However, the maze as a construction on the landscape has a long history before the invention of the videogame. By examining the change in the maze from the landscapes of open spaces and closed gardens through to the screen of the videogame, both mazes and labyrinths are discussed in terms of historical reference, alongside the author's personal experiences of walking and playing these structures. This book shows how our cultural experiences of real world maze landscapes may have changed, and how we negotiate videogame worlds along the various paths and meanings they so often create for us.
Author: Alison Gazzard Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786467940 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
From the text adventures of Zork, to the arcade game of Pac-Man, to the corridors of Doom, and on to the city streets of Grand Theft Auto IV, the maze has often been used as a space to trap and confuse players in their navigation of gameworlds. However, the maze as a construction on the landscape has a long history before the invention of the videogame. By examining the change in the maze from the landscapes of open spaces and closed gardens through to the screen of the videogame, both mazes and labyrinths are discussed in terms of historical reference, alongside the author's personal experiences of walking and playing these structures. This book shows how our cultural experiences of real world maze landscapes may have changed, and how we negotiate videogame worlds along the various paths and meanings they so often create for us.
Author: Michael Moore Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1040052819 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 341
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Basics of Game Design is for anyone wanting to become a professional game designer. Focusing on creating the game mechanics for data-driven games, it covers role-playing, real-time strategy, first-person shooter, simulation, and other games. Written by a 25-year veteran of the game industry, the guide offers detailed explanations of how to design t
Author: Josep Diaz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662446022 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 369
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th FIP WG 2.2 International Conference, TCS 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented, together with two invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. [Suggestion--please check and add more if needed] TCS-2014 consisted of two tracks, with separate program committees, which dealt respectively with: - Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation, and - Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification
Author: A. Gazzard Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This thesis contributes to the field of academic game studies by reworking and updating the established theories of Espen Aarseth, Janet Murray and Marie-Laure Ryan in understanding the path in videogames. It also draws upon the more recent theoretical discussions of figures such as Jesper Juul, Lev Manovich, Frans Mäyrä and James Newman in order to explore the player's experience along these paths in the gameworld. By defining a vocabulary of routes through space, the thesis uses the maze in particular as a way of understanding the paths of videogames. The research starts by examining our cultural understanding of the maze within videogames. Various mazes around the UK were walked in order to understand their design and how this may translate into the virtual world of the videogame. The thesis examines the uses of real world mazes through the work of Penelope Doob, and Herman Kern to discuss how the videogame may rework our cultural understanding of the maze due to its increasingly ubiquitous nature. This enables a discussion of maze-paths found within many videogames that are not necessarily categorised by what is often discussed as the maze genre of games. A morphology of maze-paths is devised through comparing the mazes of the real world and the virtual mazes of the videogame. This is achieved by breaking down the maze into separate path types and shows how these paths may link to one another. The thesis argues that the paths of the videogame are generated by the player's actions. Therefore the focus of this thesis is on the player's experience along these paths and the objects found at points on them. In acknowledging how to overcome obstacles along the path it is also possible to understand the role of the path in the player's learning and mastery of the gameworld. This leads to discussions of different types of play experienced by the player in the videogame. Play is separated into what I term purposeful play, being the activities intended by the designer, and appropriated play which is the play formed out of the player's exploration of the game system. These two terms help to understand player's incentives for playing along the ruled paths of the gameworld as well as exploring the game's system further to find new types of play outside of the pre-determined rules. As this thesis is concerned with videogames involving the player's avatar having a direct relationship with the path, the research also investigates what happens when certain devices break these paths. It was discovered that warp devices reconstruct both temporal and narrative elements within the gamespace, and cause the player's avatar to temporarily move on tracks through the gameworld. In defining a vocabulary of movement through space on a fixed track, as opposed to a player-determined path, there is a further understanding of the player experience related to each type of route taken in the game. Through an understanding of the maze and defining a vocabulary of maze-paths, tracks and objects found along them, this thesis adds a new contribution to knowledge. It also acknowledges the importance of different types of play within videogames and how these can shape the player experience along the paths of the game.
Author: Debra Olson Pressnall Publisher: Key Education Publishing ISBN: 1602689083 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 176
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Make math matter to students in grades 3–4 using Fact Mastery: Multiplication and Division! This 176-page book teaches students fundamental facts that prepare them for algebra. It includes more than 45 half-page activities; specific chapters on facts for products and quotients up to 25, 49, and 81; 58 timed tests for reinforcing the facts; 15 skill-building partner games; and 16 pretest and posttest assessment tools. The book supports NCTM standards.
Author: Steve Rabin Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0429619677 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 420
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Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Movement and Pathfinding gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology covering movement and pathfinding in game AI. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that explore better ways to smooth paths, avoid obstacles, and navigate 3D space with cutting-edge techniques. Key Features Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games Material by top developers and researchers in Game AI Downloadable demos and/or source code available online
Author: Ron Collins Publisher: Skyfox Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 117
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Cursed magic from the gods. A mysterious underground city. The first steps toward open war. Garrick is determined to be rid of a devastating magic that threatens to take over his life. Together with Darien—the son of a military man—he accepts a quest for a commission that promises enough to pay for the sorcery he'll need to break that magic's hold. Along the way he faces powerful forces as ancient as the plane itself, encounters the beautiful leader of a sect of freedom-minded, independent mages, and finds himself in the crossfire of a Lectodinian and Koradictine gambit against the most powerful Torean mage in the region. Trail of the Torean follows Garrick as he lives with his treacherous new magic, discovers exactly how deep his connection to the god-like planewalkers might be, and finds that the very future of magic across the entire plane of Adruin hangs in the balance. "Collins is a spellbinding storyteller." – David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson Author of the Thieftaker Chronicles
Author: Drew Davidson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1257870602 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 207
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In this volume, people of diverse backgrounds talk about tabletop games, game culture, and the intersection of games with learning, theater, and other forms. Some have chosen to write about their design process, others about games they admire, others about the culture of tabletop games and their fans. The results are various and individual, but all cast some light on what is a multivarious and fascinating set of game styles.
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