Filter By
- Title
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media Nicholas Taylor (North Carolina State University, USA) 9781501365058
SciFier: $80.13LEGOfied: 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,... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746536
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $35.63A 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... -
Kill the Overseer! by Sarah Juliet Lauro
RRP: $20.61SciFier: $18.46Explores 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... -
Minecraft Farming: An Unofficial Kids' Guide Percy Leed 9781728478777
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $17.38Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728478777Author Percy LeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint -
Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination by Irene Berti (Karls Universitat, Germany)
SciFier: $77.84The 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,... -
Mortal Kombat: Games of Death David Church 9780472075225
SciFier: $147.25Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistically rendered... -
Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time Christopher Bartel (Appalachian State University, USA) 9781350202702
SciFier: $77.84Is 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... -
Storyboarding by Stephanie Torta
RRP: $98.36SciFier: $70.72This 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... -
Playing as Others by Benjamin J. Chicka
RRP: $98.36SciFier: $64.88No 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... -
Understanding Game Scoring: The Evolution of Compositional Practice for and through Gaming Mack Enns 9780367492816
SciFier: $112.05Understanding Game Scoring explores the unique collaboration between gameplay and composition that defines musical scoring for video games.Using an array of case studies reaching back into the canon... -
LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media Nicholas Taylor (North Carolina State University, USA) 9781501354045
SciFier: $235.85LEGOfied: 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 Performance of Video Games by Kelly I. Aliano
RRP: $91.58SciFier: $79.42When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of both actor and spectator, watching and influencing a game's story in real time. This book presents... -
Gaming Matters by Judd Ethan Ruggill
SciFier: $74.68Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817317379Author Judd Ethan RuggillFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint -
The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games by Dr Gabriele Aroni
SciFier: $258.75Video 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... -
Women in Classical Video Games by Jane Draycott
SciFier: $261.04Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the... -
Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future Aaron Mauro (Brock University, Canada) 9781350231023
SciFier: $64.42What 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... -
Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Tom Tyler 9781517910181
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $150.84A 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,... -
Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future Aaron Mauro (Brock University, Canada) 9781350230989
SciFier: $178.60What 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... -
Monsters in the Dark by David Craddock
RRP: $68.59SciFier: $44.08Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798705200948Author David CraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint < -
Gamer's Bucket List by Chris Watters
SciFier: $29.52#1 Amazon Best Seller! Which games are worth playing?The 50 best games: From pixelated pioneer adventures to stunning space odysseys, the boundaries of the video game world are expanding every day... -
Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls Carly A. Kocurek (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) 9781501319778
SciFier: $64.10Brenda Laurel is best known for her work with Purple Moon, the pioneering game company she cofounded in the 1990s. Purple Moon's games were based on years of research Laurel completed in an effort to... -
The Unpredictability of Gameplay Dr. Mark R. Johnson (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781501365041
SciFier: $82.42The Unpredictability of Gameplay explores the many forms of unpredictability in games and proposes a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and categorizing non-deterministic game... -
Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames Dr. Chris Bateman (University of Bolton, UK) 9781501348952
SciFier: $239.28As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased, yet traditional screenwriting techniques alone cannot equip writers for the unique... -
Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia Dr Ross Clare (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781350194113
SciFier: $73.26This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum... -
LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 Guide & Walkthrough and MORE ! by Urax3
RRP: $23.22SciFier: $22.30Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798533626828Author Urax3Format PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint -
Transnational Play by Anne-Marie Schleiner
SciFier: $255.01Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside... -
Shigeru Miyamoto by Jennifer deWinter (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $114.50Video games are considered by many to be just entertainment-essentially void of skillful, artistic intervention. But as any gamer knows, there's incredible technical and graphic talent behind even a... -
Violent Games: Rules, Realism and Effect Gareth Schott (University of Waikato, New Zealand) 9781628925616
SciFier: $87.00It was over a decade ago that experimental psychologists and media-effects researchers declared the debate on the effects of violent video gaming as "essentially over," referring to the way violence... -
Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia Dr Ross Clare (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781350157194
SciFier: $235.85This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum... -
Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy Chris Bigum 9780820497341
RRP: $159.61SciFier: $144.25Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820497341Author Chris BigumFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint -
Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games Christopher Hanson 9780253032782
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $127.97Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time? Video game scholar... -
The Ultimate Final Fantasy XIV Cookbook by Victoria Rosenthal
RRP: $64.10SciFier: $43.83Travel through the exciting culinary world of FINAL FANTASY XIV.Journey through the rich culinary landscape of FINAL FANTASY XIV. Featuring favorite flavors from across Hydaelyn and Norvrandt and... -
StarCraft: Ghost Academy, Volume 3: Blizzard Legends Fernando Heinz Furukawa 9781950366620
BlizzardRRP: $22.88SciFier: $16.81The groundbreaking trilogy concludes! Struggling to forget her harrowing past, Nova, a powerful psionic soldier-in-training, has found strength in her fellow trainees. That newfound resolve will... -
Street Fighter VS Darkstalkers Vol.2 by Ken Siu-Chong
Udon EntertainmentRRP: $32.04SciFier: $22.56The frighteningly furious fighting game crossover comes to its chaotic conclusion, as the demonic Jedah's master plan threatens not only the World Warriors and the Night Warriors, but the universe... -
Bioshock: From Rapture To Columbia by Denis Brusseaux
RRP: $68.47SciFier: $48.98Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791094723630Author Denis BrusseauxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $26.36Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535180Author Chris KohlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Candy Crush Saga Advanced Guide by Tyler Davis
RRP: $13.72SciFier: $12.00Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910175019Author Tyler DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
Future Gaming by Paolo Ruffino (Associate Lecturer, University of York)
RRP: $66.41SciFier: $40.51Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906897550Author Paolo RuffinoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Games and Gaming by Larissa Hjorth
SciFier: $82.42The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii... -
Ideology and the Virtual City by Jon Bailes
SciFier: $26.31Ideology and the Virtual City is an exploration of modern society and the critical value of popular culture. It combines a prescient social theory that describes how `neoliberal' ideology in today's...