Video & Mobile

Digital gaming's cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by...

This book is a theoretical and practical deep dive into the craft of worldbuilding for video games, with an explicit focus on how different job disciplines contribute to worldbuilding. In addition to providing lenses for recognizing the various...

This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form apt at representing real world conflicts, and this edited volume highlights the intrinsic connection...

This book offers the first close examination of the game Death Stranding's narrativeThe book also incorporates a strong foundation in game studies, most especially related to the concepts of immersion and embodimentThe focus of the book lies in...

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in societyA diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world.Chapters offer...

Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L. Craddock as he explores all corners of the video game industry. Collected from the author's archives, Game Dev...

* There are no books dedicated specifically to freelancing in games. * There are more freelancing jobs available than ever before, as permanent jobs in the industry decrease. * More and more developers are looking/willing to work with...

In many respects, New York City is an unnatural wonder, quite unlike any other American city and also unlike megacities in other industrial countries. Its government and politics, its physical attributes-like the celebrated skyline and high population...

Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash that ended the medium's golden age.Book InformationISBN 9780814334508Author Mark WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne...

As entertainment becomes a trillion-dollar-a-year industry worldwide, as our modern era increasingly lives up to its label of the "entertainment age," and as economists begin to recognize that entertainment has become the driving force of the new world...

Resident Evil is a multidimensional as well as multimedia universe: various books, graphic novels, games and movies (the fifth one came out in 2012) all contribute to this enormous universe. The essays written for this volume will focus on this...

A follow up to 2007's Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984, this reference work provides detailed descriptions and reviews of every U.S.-released game for the Nintendo NES, the Atari 7800, and the Sega Master System, all of which are considered among the...

Grand Theft Auto is among the most culturally significant video game franchises in history. Popular among adult gamers, the games have become icons for child endangerment, and are frequently cited in political rhetoric directed against exposing violence...

In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman's volume considers how we might approach videogames as media texts...

Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices...

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as "qualia...

This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and how we identify them in different media. While narrative...

Description:Many new games are from first-time designers or are self-published, so there is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design. While there are many books about the design process in terms of mechanisms...

- Highly accessible and code-free introduction to game audio, suitable for a wide range of undergraduate courses, such as music production, sound design and composition - Accompanied by eresources, including downloadable projects for each chapter - A...

Sounding Emerging Media details a practice-based approach to sonic art and electroacoustic composition, drawing on methodologies inspired by the production of electronic literature, and game development.Using the structural concepts identified by Gilles...

Distrust. Division. Disparity. Is our world in disrepair? Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and movements like #PlayApartTogether, games have become...

Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time. But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713533Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713618Author Spike ChunsoftFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

The true murderer has been revealed, and the Investigation Team must return to the Midnight Channel to finally bring the case to an end. Based the Persona 4 video game!Book InformationISBN 9781772941333Author AtlusFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint...

In Red vs. Blue, its creators at Rooster Teeth brings together more than a decades' worth of ephemera and behind-the-scenes information from the popular comedic web series, including: * Character dossiers and fact sheets* Character-driven lists,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683833970Author Victoria RosenthalFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1105gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

New hardcover collection celebrating the 25th anniversary of Darkstalkers! When the World Warriors meet the Night Warriors -- they'll raise Hell! These time-tested combatants have met many times in the arcades, but nothing can prepare you for their first...

Minecraft has more than 100 million registered users and this book guides them through the mods You've built a great base, a secret hideout, and other awesome builds. You've mined diamond, gold, and iron. You may have even played around with Redstone or...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506715759Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams) 1930g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713625Author Sucker Punch ProductFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

The World Warrriors take center stage in the first ever Street Fighter novel! Featuring Ryu VS Akuma, Chun-li VS Elena, Guile VS E.Honda, Sagat VS M.Bison, and many more classic fighters colliding in their most epic encounters yet. It's all described in...

Here's a fun-filled trip back in time to the colorful arcades of the 1970s and '80s. More than 600 photos present the dot-munching PAC MAN, bomb-dropping SPACE INVADERS, and other favorites. Nostalgic baby boomers have made arcade video games one of the...

What if there were video games that weren't about killing things? The world's biggest entertainment medium has come under decades of scrutiny because of its violent content. But here's a little known fact: from the very beginning, non-violent video...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045506Author Braxton SodermanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Did you grow up playing video games when you had to wait online to get them? Do you remember the bad, weird, or otherwise underrated video games of your youth? Did you like a few of them more than your friends did? A Selective History of Bad' Video...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782377840489Author Nicolas TurcevFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

The best builds in Minecraft and the game's most stunning creations - from minigames to giant cities - are found on Minecraft servers. But where to start in exploring the massive maps and multitude of servers available? The Ultimate Guide to Mastering...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047722Author Miguel SicartFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Transport yourself to the global capital of cool with this ultimate guide to Japanese pop culture!Are you crazy about Japanese manga, anime, video games, cosplay, toys and idols? If so, this book is for you! Whether you're planning a trip to Japan, have...