Video & Mobile

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...

Understanding 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 of classic video games, this book illuminates 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...

When 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 video gaming as a virtual medium for performance,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817317379Author Judd Ethan RuggillFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

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...

Despite 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 role of women in these video games especially neglected...

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...

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 9798705200948Author David CraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 281g

#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. Grand epics and gritty mysteries. Fierce competition...

Brenda 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 understand why computer games seemed to be of so...

The Unpredictability of Gameplay explores the many forms of unpredictability in games and proposes a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and categorizing non-deterministic game mechanics. Rather than viewing all game mechanics with...

As 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 challenges of writing stories where the actions and...

This 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 of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798533626828Author Urax3Format PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Transnational 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 of the First World. Players experience play in game...

Video 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 flickering Gameboy screen. You may have never heard...

It 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 in videogames increases aggressive thoughts, feelings...

This 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 of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820497341Author Chris BigumFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncSeries New Literacies and Digital...

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time? Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital...

Travel 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 easy-to-follow instructions, this tome provides numerous...

The 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 be put to the test when she and her team are...

The 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 itself! Collects Issues #5-8 of the Street Fighter VS...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791094723630Author Denis BrusseauxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782377842483Author Benoit ReinierFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535180Author Chris KohlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Boss Fight LLCPublisher Boss Fight LLC

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910175019Author Tyler DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Get PublishingPublisher Get PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906897550Author Paolo RuffinoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Future Gaming

The 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 and Microsoft's Xbox, to platforms such as iPhones and...

Ideology 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 societies dominates our economic, political and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732355231Author Jamie LendinoFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Steel Gear PressPublisher Steel Gear PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From his very first quest to attain the Triforce, explore Hyrule, and rescue Princess Zelda, Link has been on the ultimate adventure since 1986, and fans around the world have been involved in the journey all along the way. Now celebrating its 30th...

Since 2001, the Australian game company Halfbrick Studios has been changing the mobile games scene. After seven years of making licensed games, Halfbrick took a chance and released Fruit Ninja to the world-- and the world became obsessed with slicing...

With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainment media in the world. In their examination of the...

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as "real." Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is the first collection to explore and define the possibilities of ARGs. Though prominent examples have existed for more...

Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time including driving, shooting, and maze chase, Playback: A...

In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play. Yet most of the games in these new genres featured fantasylands or humorous science fiction landscapes with low stakes and little to suggest the...