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Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life Robert M. Geraci (Professor, Professor, , Manhattan College) 9780199344697
RRP: $60.62$52.23Millions of users have taken up residence in virtual worlds, and in those worlds they find opportunities to revisit and rewrite their religious lives. Robert Geraci argues that virtual worlds and video games have become a locus for the satisfaction of... -
Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction John G. Clement 9780124730519
RRP: $114.81$105.26This unique books looks at a cost-efficient, fast and accurate means of facial reconstruction--from segmented, decomposed, or skeletal remains--using computer-graphic and computational means. Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction is designed as a... -
The Game Music Toolbox: Composition Techniques and Production Tools from 20 Iconic Game Soundtracks Marios Aristopoulos 9780367705503
RRP: $167.70$144.07Careful balance of music theory and music production skills for music composers Littered with case studies from AAA games, as well as independent games to demonstrate techniques. These include: Cyberpunk 2077, Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda, Street... -
How to Cheat in Unity 5: Tips and Tricks for Game Development Alan Thorn (National Film & Television School, Upminster, UK) 9781138802940
RRP: $58.04$49.39Looking to become more efficient using Unity?How to Cheat in Unity 5 takes a no-nonsense approach to help you achieve fast and effective results with Unity 5. Geared towards the intermediate user, HTC in Unity 5 provides content beyond what an... -
Computer Games and Technical Communication: Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection Jennifer deWinter 9781138710207
RRP: $51.59$45.63Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing... -
Sexuality in Role-Playing Games Ashley ML Brown 9781138097704
RRP: $58.04$51.03Role-playing games offer a chance to pretend, make believe, and share fantasy. They often invoke heavy themes into their game play: morality, violence, politics, spirituality, or sexuality. Although interesting moral debates perennially appear in the... -
Unofficial Price Guide to Video Games: Virtual Boy Jay Recher 9780996126427
RRP: $12.89$10.31Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996126427Author Jay RecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Jr Elite EnterprisesPublisher Jr Elite EnterprisesWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games Zach Whalen 9780826516015
RRP: $43.80$41.27Playing the Past brings together an eclectic group of young scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. By focusing on specific games (e.g., Ms. Pac-Man and JFK:... -
Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Creators of Innovative Educational Tools Chris DiGiano 9780805864724
RRP: $68.36$59.68What knowledge and skills do designers of learning technologies need? What is the best way to train them to create high-quality educational technologies? Distilling the wisdom of expert instructors and designers, this cutting-edge guide offers a clear,... -
Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture Alexander R. Galloway 9780816648511
RRP: $18.05$16.91Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video... -
Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience Jonathan Boulter 9780814334881
RRP: $42.51$41.27In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of... -
America's Digital Army: Games at Work and War Robertson Allen 9780803285293
RRP: $69.66$61.55America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of... -
Video Game Policy: Production, Distribution, and Consumption Steven Conway 9780815396376
RRP: $60.62$53.70This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like. Contributors argue that digital games are not created nor consumed outside of the complex power relationships... -
Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games Dani Cavallaro 9780786444274
RRP: $28.37$23.89This book describes the thematic and structural traits of a recent and popular development within the realm of anime: series adapted from visual novels. Visual novels are interactive fiction games in which players creatively control decisions and plot... -
Playing at the Next Level: A History of American Sega Games Ken Horowitz 9780786499946
RRP: $37.40$31.00Today a multinational video game developer, Sega was the first to break Nintendo's grip on the gaming industry, expanding from primarily an arcade game company to become the dominant game console manufacturer in North America. A major part of that... -
Dangerous to Go Alone!: an anthology of gamer poetry Glen Armstrong 9780692557365
RRP: $13.97$12.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692557365Author Glen ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Manawaker StudioPublisher Manawaker StudioWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education Jose P. Zagal 9780557277919
RRP: $10.26$9.66Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557277919Author Jose P. ZagalFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm -
Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific Larissa Hjorth 9780415535892
RRP: $58.04$51.03This 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... -
Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games: Analyzing Words, Design, and Play Christopher A. Paul (Seattle University) 9780415834995
RRP: $51.59$45.63In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and... -
Designing Gamified Systems: Meaningful Play in Interactive Entertainment, Marketing and Education Sari Gilbert 9780415725712
RRP: $135.45$112.29Designing Gamified Systems is a fundamental guide for building essential skills in game and interaction design to revitalize and reimagine real world systems - from cities and corporations to schools and the military. Author Sari Gilbert develops a set... -
Holistic Mobile Game Development with Unity Penny de Byl (Associate Professor, Bond University; Winner of the 2011 Unity Technologies Unity Mobile Generation Great Education Giveaway) 9780415839235
RRP: $60.62$52.36Holistic Mobile Game Development with Unity: An All-In-One Guide to Implementing Mechanics, Art Design and Programming for iOS and Android GamesMaster mobile game design and development in this all-in-one guide to creating iOS and Android games in the... -
Designing Games for Children: Developmental, Usability, and Design Considerations for Making Games for Kids Carla Fisher 9780415729178
RRP: $60.62$50.96When making games for kids, it's tempting to simply wing-it on the design. We were all children once, right? The reality is that adults are far removed from the cognitive changes and the motor skill challenges that are the hallmark of the developing... -
Inside the Video Game Industry: Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play Judd Ruggill 9780415828284
RRP: $63.20$55.34Inside the Video Game Industry offers a provocative look into one of today's most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming,... -
V-Ray My Way: A Practical Designer's Guide to Creating Realistic Imagery Using V-Ray & 3ds Max Lee Wylde (Dubai Project Control Group; American University of Sharjah) 9780415709637
RRP: $73.52$61.78V-Ray My Way: A Practical Designers Guide to Creating Realistic Imagery Using V-Ray & 3ds Max is a practical, hands-on guide to creating some of the most stunning computer-generated images possible. It caters to the design masses; architects, engineers,... -
The Rise of Transtexts: Challenges and Opportunities Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz 9780367874407
RRP: $50.30$44.56This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists... -
Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media: Ergodic Ontogeny Sara M. Cole (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) 9780367885366
RRP: $50.30$44.56Recent shifts in new literacy studies have expanded definitions of text, reading/viewing, and literacy itself. The inclusion of non-traditional media forms is essential, as texts beyond written words, images, or movement across a screen are becoming ever... -
Lettering and Design Guide for Learning Calligraphy Maggie Stevens 9780359114108
RRP: $19.34$12.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359114108Author Maggie StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Abbott PropertiesPublisher Abbott PropertiesWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm... -
Anxiety Management Understanding How to Overcome Worry Fear, Depression, & Panic Attacks Stephen Berkley 9780359114153
RRP: $19.34$12.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359114153Author Stephen BerkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Abbott PropertiesPublisher Abbott PropertiesWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 297mm *... -
Handbook of Computer Game Studies Joost Raessens (Professor of Media Theory, Utrecht University) 9780262516587
$59.97Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516587Author Joost RaessensFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries The MIT PressWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm)... -
Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds J C Herz 9780316360074
$35.46Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316360074Author J C HerzFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
Introduction to Game Development: Using Processing James R. Parker 9781937585402
RRP: $55.41$41.46This book will guide you through the basic game development process, covering game development topics including graphics, sound, artificial intelligence, animation, game engines, Web-based games, etc. Real games will be created, and significant parts of... -
iOS for Game Programmers Allen Sherrod 9781938549878
RRP: $50.25$37.02This book takes the readers on a journey into the world of mobile game development aimed at beginner Objective-C programmers. The book enables the reader to create a number of projects, which include a matching game, a puzzle game, a whack-a-mole game, a... -
Video Game Writing: From Macro to Micro Maurice Suckling 9781683920298
RRP: $50.25$37.53This insightful, revised book explores the challenging and evolving world of the games writer. Part I provides a fascinating overview of the history of games writing following its humble roots in the '60s to today's triple-A titles; Part II asks and... -
Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice Paul Hildreth 9781591401643
RRP: $96.75$78.03Contributes to the understanding of how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment. It describes academic work in the field of Knowledge Management, with a specific focus on the management of knowledge which... -
Biologically Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games Darryl Charles 9781591406464
RRP: $127.71$104.48Reviews several strands of modern artificial intelligence - using case studies for each to display how they may be applied to computer games.Book InformationISBN 9781591406464Author Darryl CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 301Imprint Medical Information... -
Business Intelligence in the Digital Economy: Opportunities, Limitations and Risks Mahesh Raisinghani 9781591402060
RRP: $103.20$83.84This work describes what Business Intelligence (BI) is, how it is being conducted and managed and its major opportunities, limitations, issues and risks. It takes an in-depth look at the scope of global technological change and BI.Book InformationISBN... -
Make Your Own Scratch Games Anna Anthropy 9781593279363
RRP: $21.92$16.43Anna Anthropy, game designer extraordinaire, will show you how to do everything from building a game map to creating animations and debugging the end product. Take a peek inside the history of video game design, learn programming basics, and turn your... -
Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 9781517906313
RRP: $114.81$100.65A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of entertainment to do something serious-like help us save the planet?... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746529
RRP: $139.32$121.57A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy... -
LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media Nicholas Taylor (North Carolina State University, USA) 9781501365058
$42.56LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media provides a multi-faceted exploration of LEGO fandom, addressing a blindspot in current accounts of LEGO and an emerging area of interest to media scholars: namely, the role of hobbyist enthusiasts and content producers...