Video & Mobile

A 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...

In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with...

Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness...

In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of games, from Portal and Final Fantasy VII to Super Mario...

The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual goes into the nuts and bolts of video game development from the perspective of a veteran designer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. It covers the psychology and...

The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual goes into the nuts and bolts of video game development from the perspective of a veteran designer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. It covers the psychology and...

The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence - from war to slavery, rape and murder - in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088023068Author Chris CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. Videogames represent one of the most significant developments in the modern popular arts, and it is a topic that is attracting much attention among...

Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games-and the trouble with making history playableKill the Overseer! profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and "gamify" slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing...

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Computer games are a billion-dollar business. In 2021, the value of the gaming industry was about 200 billion US dollars. This book describes some modern approaches, procedures, algorithms, and devices in computer gaming. It includes information on...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728476759Author Percy LeedFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner Publishing GroupSeries Lightning Bolt Books (R) --...

The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the...

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But, should players worry about the morality of their virtual actions? A common argument is that games offer...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781257858453Author Drew DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 620gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 18mm

This revised text is designed to demonstrate the process of converting static images to an effective animation of characters and effects. Unlike many of its competitors, Storyboarding uses the accompanying DVD to show the storyboards in conjunction with...

The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem entitled Mythopoeia, Tolkien makes the case that the...

No contemporary form of pop culture has as large a social impact as video games, an entertainment industry whose yearly revenues continue to rise. Gamergate rocked the gaming industry when isolated incidents of male gamers threatening female game...

Combining knowledge from sport management, marketing, media, leadership, governance, and consumer behavior in innovative ways, this book goes further than any other in surveying current theory and research on the business of women's sport around the...

LEGOfied: 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255506Author Daniel PundayFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressSeries Theory...

Many people aspire to create their own games but don't know where to start. Make Amazing Games 3rd Edition introduces the game creation process to the aspiring game developer with no experience or programming ability. Taking the reader step-by-step...

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles...

The Post-9/11 Video Game: A Critical Examination demonstrates that a new genre of video games arises from the American experience of 9/11. The representations reflect reshaped notions of the (sub)urban spaces, identity and the role of the citizen as a...

First international anthology to focus solely on social issues in esports.International, multi-contextual and multi-experience empirical studies that illustrate social issues in esports in different parts of the world.Foundational text for future...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544627Author Sonia FizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions. The...

Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of...

This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity-one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of interacting with and understanding the world. The...

This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or...

A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other Video games conjure new worlds for those who play them, human or otherwise: they've been played by cats, orangutans, pigs, and penguins, and they let gamers...

What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536381Author Michael W CluneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of...

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798846350014Author Leann VonruedenFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798847442367Author Gustave AbernathyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798846350717Author Abdullah KundeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798821101099Author Christine LehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...