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Explore our collection of games books at our online bookstore, featuring books about gaming, board games, and the popular Hunger Games series. Discover the best-selling books and must-read titles, including the Warriors novel series, perfect for gaming enthusiasts and readers alike.
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Video Game Law: Everything You Need to Know about Legal and Business Issues in the Game IndustryVideo Game Law is aimed at game developers and industry professionals who want to better understand the industry or are in need of expert legal guidance. Given the rise in international competition, the increasing complexity of video game features, and the explosive growth of...
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3D Masterclass: The Swordmaster in 3ds Max and ZBrush: The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Low Poly Game Character3D Masterclass: The Swordmaster in 3ds Max and ZBrush presents a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to modeling, sculpting, unwrapping, texturing, and rendering a low poly game character. The professional workflow detailed in this book is typical of the games design industry, and anyone looking to...
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Keep Your Ear on the BallAfter several missed kicks and a trampled base keeper, no one wants Davey on the team. But maybe, just maybe, there's a solution that will work for everybody.F&P Text Level NGenevieve Petrillo has been teaching elementary students in New Jersey for 34 years. David...
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An Architectural Approach to Level Design: Second EditionWritten by a game developer and professor trained in architecture, An Architectural Approach to Level Design is one of the first books to integrate architectural and spatial design theory with the field of level design. It explores the principles of level design through the...
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Man, Play and GamesAccording to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." In spite of this--or because of it--play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this classic study, Caillois defines...
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Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation"Game Feel" exposes "feel" as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord progressions, verse) - no matter the instruments, style or time period -...
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Beyond Algorithms: Delivering AI for BusinessWith so much artificial intelligence (AI) in the headlines, it is no surprise that businesses are scrambling to exploit this exciting and transformative technology. Clearly, those who are the first to deliver business-relevant AI will gain significant advantage. However, there is a problem! Our...
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Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and NarrativesCombining theory and practice, this updated new edition provides a complete overview of how to create deep and meaningful quests for games. It uses the Unity game engine in conjunction with Fungus and other free plugins to provide an accessible entry into quest design....
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Chess RumbleQuick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, American Library Association (ALA) Notable Books in the Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, International Reading Association (IRA) Top Picks for Reluctant Readers, BoysRead.orgA story in free verse about...
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Passion and Play: A Guide to Designing Sexual Content in GamesHoping to add some steam and sex to your next game? Then this book is for you. This practical guide provides you with the foundational tools needed to write, design, and create healthy sexual content in video games in ways that are narratively compelling,...
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Digital Zombies, Undead Stories: Narrative Emergence and VideogamesThrough analysis of three case study videogames - Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft - and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of...
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Monster MasterThe Gamer's friends are in beastly trouble! Villain Cynthia Cyber has trapped them in her dangerous Power Combat video game. If the Gamer isn't able to rescue his friends in just ten minutes, they'll be stuck in the electronic world forever as monsters! Can...
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AI for GamesWhat is artificial intelligence? How is artificial intelligence used in game development? Game development lives in its own technical world. It has its own idioms, skills, and challenges. That's one of the reasons games are so much fun to work on. Each game has...
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Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor: Learn to play with the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor kit and build creative robotsDiscover how to use the LEGO MINDSTORMS Inventor kit and boost your confidence in roboticsKey Features: Gain confidence in building robots using creative designs Learn advanced robotic features and find out how to integrate them to build a robot Work with the block coding...
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Making Games for ImpactDesigning games for learning: case studies show how to incorporate impact goals, build a team, and work with experts to create an effective game. Digital games for learning are now commonplace, used in settings that range from K-12 education to advanced medical training. In...
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Devolver: Behind the Scenes: Collector's Edition: Business and Punk AttitudeThis book is intended for readers around the world. Not only to lovers of the Devolver Digital publisher and video game lovers, but also to those who don't care or know anything about it. Why? Because it tells a story that tends towards the...
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The Wooden TreasureLong ago, in a country far away, a mysterious stranger surprises a poor boy with an unusual gift: wooden chess pieces. With this unexpected treasure, the boy embarks on a world of adventure. What will he discover? This picture book is based on the...
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Encyclopedia of Video Games [3 Volumes]: The Culture, Technology, and Art of GamingThis three-volume encyclopedia covers all things video games, including the games themselves, the companies that make them, and the people who play them. Written by scholars who are exceptionally knowledgeable in the field of video game studies, it notes genres, institutions, important concepts, theoretical...
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Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Build 2D Games with Spritekit & SwiftDesign and develop sophisticated 2D games that are as much fun to make as they are to play. From particle effects and pathfinding to social integration and monetization, this complete tour of Apple's powerful suite of game technologies covers it all. Familiar with Swift...
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Writing for Animation, Comics, and GamesThis second edition of Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games expounds on the previous edition with more information on how to construct narratives for these three forms of visual storytelling media. Christy Marx's book offers an in-depth look into scriptwriting and how to break...
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