Entertainment Games category: 10318 books
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...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Games live and die commercially on the player experience. Games User Research is collectively the way we optimise the quality of the user experience (UX) in games, working with all aspects of a game from the mechanics and interface, visuals and art, interaction and progression, making sure every element...
Joystick Soldiers
The Politics of Play in Military Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games began as entertainment, military organizations...
The Art of Failure
An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions...
Ready Player Two
Women Gamers and Designed Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of gender binaries. Supported by games such as Diner Dash, Mystery Case Files, Wii Fit, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood—which...
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...
Playing Video Games
Motives, Responses, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses,...
by Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics?
Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness?
How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from
Zork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization?
A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are...
Translation and Localisation in Video Games
Making Entertainment Software Global
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry – understood as a global phenomenon in entertainment – and aims to explain the norms governing present industry practices, as well as game localisation processes....
Attack of the Flickering Skeletons
More Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Welcome to a world of games you never knew existed. You will probably wish you still didn’t.
YouTube sensation Stuart Ashen is back with his second instalment of terrible old computer games you’ve probably never heard of... because what the world needs right now is to know exactly how bad...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
An Inside Look At Gaming Cheats! Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Gaming Cheats!
Video games can be a source of hours of entertainment for people who have nothing else to do. You can go on remarkable journeys that take you to new worlds. You can be a hero or a super...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Gaming!
Gaming is one of the most popular types of hobby that a person can enjoy in this modern world. Such activity is already part of the main uses of personal computers at the present time. It was made possible with the use of...
by Marcus Lindley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book describes in detail the Wii hardware, technical problems, most popular Wii games and how people play their Wii and Gamecube ROMs/games on a standard PC. A useful section is the list of GameCube games that work on the Wii. Many GC games have better graphics than the PS1 and Xbox, with some...