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“devin c griffiths”

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  • Virtual Ascendance

    Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

    by Devin C. Griffiths ...
    From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence.Virtual Ascendance tells the story of a formerly fringe enterprise ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • Minecraft: The Ultimate Reloaded 70 Top Tips & Tricks Your Friends Wish They Know After You Beat Them!

    by Jason Scotts ...
    Minecraft is a great game to play alone, but it gets even better if you do so with your friends. Whether you are on PvP (player versus player) mode where your goal is to be the last man or in this case, the last Steve standing, or you are just trying to create a "better" world compared to those made by your friends, it would be to your advantage if you take note of the tips mentioned below. From ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Designing Games

    A Guide to Engineering Experiences

    by Tynan Sylvester ...
    Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences - a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Xbox One or PS4 [PlayStation 4]: Which New Video Game Console Should You Buy? A Comparison of Xbox 1 and PS4 Price, Features, Specs, Games and Release Dates

    by Eric Michael ...
    Playstation 4 or Xbox One -- Which of the exciting new video game consoles should YOU buy?For the first time ever, entertainment giants Sony and Microsoft are squaring off in a straight-up battle for video game supremacy, as both companies roll out their long awaited systems simultaneously. Hang on to your to your controllers... this is gonna be awesome!The United Gamers Federation has compiled ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shigeru Miyamoto

    Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda

    by Jennifer deWinter ...
    Series series Influential Video Game Designers
    Video games are considered by many to be just entertainment-essentially void of skillful, artistic intervention. But as any gamer knows, there's incredible technical and graphic talent behind even a flickering Gameboy screen.You may have never heard Shigeru Miyamoto's name, but you've probably spent many a lazy afternoon absorbed in his work. Joining Nintendo as a video game designer in the late ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • AI for Game Developers

    Creating Intelligent Behavior in Games

    by David M Bourg, Glenn Seemann ...
    Advances in 3D visualization and physics-based simulation technology make it possible for game developers to create compelling, visually immersive gaming environments that were only dreamed of years ago. But today's game players have grown in sophistication along with the games they play. It's no longer enough to wow your players with dazzling graphics; the next step in creating even more ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Augmented Human

    How Technology Is Shaping the New Reality

    by Helen Papagiannis ...
    Augmented Reality (AR) blurs the boundary between the physical and digital worlds. In AR’s current exploration phase, innovators are beginning to create compelling and contextually rich applications that enhance a user’s everyday experiences. In this book, Dr. Helen Papagiannis—a world-leading expert in the field—introduces you to AR: how it’s evolving, where the opportunities are, and where it’s ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Codename Revolution

    The Nintendo Wii Platform

    by Steven E. Jones, George K. Thiruvathukal ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    Get an inside look at the technological, social, and cultural impact of the hugely popular Nintendo Wii!The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development, signaled a turn away from fully immersive, time-consuming MMORPGs or 40-hour FPS games and back toward family fun ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology

    Edited by Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, Ulf-Dietrich Reips ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming

    Multiplayer 2

    Edited by Rachel Kowert, Thorsten Quandt ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go beyond a typical "edited book" concept, and offer a very concise volume with several focal points that are most relevant for the current debate about multiplayer games, both in academia and society. As a result, the volume offers the latest research ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • HTML 5 Shoot 'em Up in an Afternoon

    by Bryan Bibat ...
    (This book is available for a pay-as-you-want price at Leanpub. This ebook-only version does not include the videos so it is priced slightly lower than the suggested Leanpub price.)Learn the basics of HTML5 game programming with PhaserLearn how to make a simple top-down shoot 'em up from scratch with the Phaser HTML5 framework in a few hours: from adding sprites, handling player input, processing ... Read more

    $8.00 USD

  • Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Dean Chan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production and consumption such as Japan, China, and South Korea, as well as increasingly significant sites including Australia and Singapore, the region provides a wealth of divergent examples of the role of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD