Games category: 11191 books
by Hide&Seek
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Designed to give the maximum amount of fun for the minimum amount of rule-reading, Tiny Games for Home will let you find the perfect game for whatever situation you're in. All you need is this book, and the stuff that's around you. (Friends optional)
There are games to play with spoons and...
by David Parlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players.
Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge)...
Serious Games
Mechanisms and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any form of interactive computer-based game software for one or multiple players to be used...
by Christopher George Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This is the first book to describe comprehensively the various war games which people have played throughout the ages, from ancient times to the present day. It covers both the games run by governments and those brought out commercially for members of the public. The most important of the official...
Learning Java by Building Android Games
Learn Java and Android from scratch by building six exciting games, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Get ready for a fun-filled experience of learning Java by developing games for the Android platform
Key Features
Learn Java, Android, and object-oriented programming from scratch
Build games including Sub Hunter, Retro Pong, Bullet Hell, Classic Snake, and a 2D Scrolling Shooter
Create and design...
by Jeremy McCurdy
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Create games on multiple platforms from a single codebase using Haxe and the HaxeFlixel engine
About This Book
Learn the modern, cross-platform language Haxe to build games without any trouble
Create engaging 2D games that are compatible with desktop, web, and mobile platforms
Learn how to speed...
Play/Write
Digital Rhetoric, Writing Games
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
lay/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games is an edited collection of essays that examines the relationship between games and writing – examining how writing functions both within games and the networks of activity that surround games and gameplay. The collection is organized based on the primary...
The Game Inventor's Guidebook: How to Invent and Sell Board Games, Card Games, Role-Playing Games, & Everything in Between!
How to Invent and Sell Board Games, Card Games, Role-Playing Games, & Everything in Between!
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The definitive guide for anyone with a game idea who wants to know how to get it published from a Game Design Manager at Wizards of the Coast, the world's largest tabletop hobby game company. Do you have an idea for a board game, card game, role-playing game or tabletop game? Have you ever wondered...
Introduction to Most Popular Casino Table Games
(Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat & Texas hold ‘em)
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Introduction to Most Popular Casino Table Games
Are you planning that Vegas vacation? Or, do you simply have an interest in casino table games? Many people have considered testing their luck at games of chance. If you are one of them and your interest is in table games, this book is for you!
While...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Become A Better Gamer With These Gamer Shooting Tips!
What makes most shooting games interesting and fun to play? Like lots of other kinds of arcade games, shooting games offer a very entertaining and fun way of spending few minutes or hours depending on your time availability.
But the overall attractiveness...
Videogames for Humans
Twine Authors in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
"Thanks to tools like Twine and to a vigorous creative scene, alternative creators have seized control of that creaky word, hypertext, hybridized it with the videogames they grew up loving, and have turned it into a powerful, in-your-face, diverse, exciting field. Voices we have never heard before....
Getting Gamers
The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our relationships. But it’s not all bad! This book will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games...
Gaming
Essays On Algorithmic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2006
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts...
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games
Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
Video games have brought entertainment, education, and innovation to millions, but gaming also has its dark sides. From the deep-bred misogyny epitomized...