Video & Mobile

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 9780316360074Author J C HerzFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

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...

A 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?...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...