Video & Mobile

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...

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on...

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...

A mysterious group of phantom thieves skulks in the shadows of Tokyo, changing the hearts of corrupt adults. But behind their masks are--normal teenagers and a talking black cat?! PERSONA 5: MEMENTOS MISSION is an all-new mystery featuring the cast of...

Every person who owns a pinball machine, or who is thinking of buying one, will find a wealth of valuable information and step-by-step help in this thorough, updated manual. For electromechanical and electronic machines: choosing and buying a pinball...

Build and create your own Roblox world with this updated, easy-to-use guide.Roblox, the largest user-generated online gaming platform that allows users to create and share their own game worlds and gaming creations, has taken the digital world by storm!...

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 action-packed, fan service-fueled comic crossover! Villains will unite,...

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...

Enter the world of Street Fighter, where fighters of every size, shape and color collide in a global battle for supremacy. In this volume: New challengers rise up, while longtime favorites take their martial arts to the next level! The mysterious...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535227Author Brock WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Boss Fight BooksPublisher Boss Fight BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044387Author Shira ChessFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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

Step into the haunted and hair-raising world of Five Nights at Freddy's! With animatronic animals, dark shadows, creepy vibes, and an ever-present sense of doom, Five Nights at Freddy's has been perfecting its formula for scares since the first game...

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 9781940535050Author Jon IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Boss Fight LLCPublisher Boss Fight LLC

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

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506722269Author Midori GotouFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.