Video & Mobile

Dig all the diamonds you want, build the biggest castle, or even kill the Ender Dragon, but everyone knows there's one thing that makes a true Minecraft master: the ability to build with Redstone. Redstone is the most complex and least understood part of...

Millions 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...

This 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...

Careful 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...

Looking 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...

Taking 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...

Role-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...

Apologies 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 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:...

What 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,...

Video 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...

In 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 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...

This 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...

This 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...

Today 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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

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...

In 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 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: 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...

When 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 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 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,...

This 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...

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for...

Recent 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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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 *...

Since the game Tomb Raider was first released in 1996, its protagonist Lara Croft has become an international celebrity. The virtual archaeologist-adventuress has been featured in various sequels to the original game, a line of action figures, two...

This 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...

This 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...

This 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...

Contributes 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...

Reviews 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...

This 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...

Anna 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...