Games category: 11191 books
by Alejandro Rodas de Paz, Joseph Howse
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
A pragmatic guide for developing your own games with PythonAbout This BookStrengthen your fundamentals of game programming with Python languageSeven hands-on games to create 2D and 3D games rapidly from scratchIllustrative guide to explore the different GUI libraries for building your gamesWho...
The Great Book of Riddles, Quizzes and Games
An Enormous Three-in-One Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
It is our pleasure to present this ultimate anthology of riddles, quizzes and games – a three-in-one collection of our best-selling titles: The Great Book of Riddles, The Great Book of Games, and The Great Quiz Book.
The Great Book of Riddles:
This book presents 250 of the greatest...
by R. C. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind. This excellent handbook by R. C. Bell is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world, and one of the two or three finest books ever written on the subject....
The Everything Card Games Book
A complete guide to over 50 games to please any crowd
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
If you find yourself coming down with a case of rainy-day boredom or "I can't watch another rerun on TV" syndrome, grab the closest deck of cards and get ready for some serious fun! The Everything Card Games Book is packed with loads of variety to keep you entertained for hours with games you can...
Playing Smart
On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In Playing Smart, Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and...
Understanding Video Games
The Essential Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Understanding Video Games is a crucial guide for newcomers to video game studies and experienced game scholars alike. This revised and updated third edition of the pioneering text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of game studies, and highlights changes in the gaming industry, advances...
Games As A Service
How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The games industry is serious business and the role of a games designer has dramatically changed over just the last few years. Developers now have to rethink everything they know about the creative, technical and business challenges to adapt to the transition to games as a service.
Games as...
Resonant Games
Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.
Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners....
Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games
Analyzing Words, Design, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines...
Beyond Choices
The Design of Ethical Gameplay
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
How computer games can be designed to create ethically relevant experiences for players.
Today's blockbuster video games—and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots—provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination....
Atari to Zelda
Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of “Japaneseness.”
In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting...
by Hide&Seek
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
"Amusing, raucous and inventive†? -The Guardian
From award winning game designers Hide&Seek come tons of brand new games for real-world play. Tiny Games takes traditional parlour games and adds a touch of modern game design know-how to allow any number of players to have fun whatever they're...
Gladstone's Games to Go
Verbal Volleys, Coin Contests, Dot Deuls, and Other Games for Boredom-Free Days
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
No Boards! No Boredom!
Remember the games you used to play in the car as a kid? You’d enjoy playing them again, but you can’t quite remember all the rules, and besides, the games were awfully easy. Well, Gladstone’s Games to Go has come to the rescue.
With updated classics and challenging...
Atari Age
The Emergence of Video Games in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)
Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns...