Tag: Game

Free Download The Chinese Video Game Industry
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031415035 | 417 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7.3 MB
The recent and dramatic development of China’s economy and international political muscle is especially pronounced in the country’s video game industry. Now the largest of its kind in the world by gross revenue, the Chinese video game industry impacts every player in the global game market and has begun to directly influence the nature of the video game medium itself. From its conceptualization of the player as a category and commodity, to its approach to the design, development, and marketing of products and services, the Chinese game industry is engaging in a complex, innovative, and fascinating reimagining of the video game as a cultural and industrial force.

Free Download Game AI Uncovered: Volume One
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032343230 | 217 Pages | PDF (True) | 19 MB
Game AI Uncovered: Volume One kicks off a brand-new series of books that focus on the development of artificial intelligence in video games. This volume brings together the collected wisdom, ideas, tricks, and cutting-edge techniques from 20 of the top game AI professionals and researchers from around the world.

Free Download Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes by Marcella Szablewicz
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2020 | 229 Pages | ISBN : 3030361101 | 3.4 MB
In this book, Marcella Szablewicz traces what she calls the topography of digital game culture in urban China, drawing our attention to discourse and affect as they shape the popular imaginary surrounding digital games. Szablewicz argues that games are not mere sites of escape from Real Life, but rather locations around which dominant notions about failure, success, and socioeconomic mobility are actively processed and challenged. Covering a range of issues including nostalgia for Internet cafés as sites of youth sociality, the media-driven Internet addiction moral panic, the professionalization of e-sports, and the rise of the self-proclaimed loser (diaosi), Mapping Digital Game Culture in China uses games as a lens onto youth culture and the politics of everyday life in contemporary China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2015 and first-hand observations spanning over two decades, the book is also a social history of urban China’s shifting technological landscape.

Free Download Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowdsensing: A Game-theoretic Approach by Youqi Li , Fan Li , Song Yang , Chuan Zhang
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 137 Pages | ISBN : 9819969204 | 15.2 MB
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is emerging as a novel sensing paradigm in the Internet of Things (IoTs) due to the proliferation of smart devices (e.g., smartphones, wearable devices) in people’s daily lives. These ubiquitous devices provide an opportunity to harness the wisdom of crowds by recruiting mobile users to collectively perform sensing tasks, which largely collect data about a wide range of human activities and the surrounding environment. However, users suffer from resource consumption such as battery, processing power, and storage, which discourages users’ participation. To ensure the participation rate, it is necessary to employ an incentive mechanism to compensate users’ costs such that users are willing to take part in crowdsensing.

Free Download Scott Greenberg (Author, Narrator), "The Wealthy Franchisee: Game-Changing Steps to Becoming a Thriving Franchise Superstar"
English | ASIN: B08NLDN3S3 | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:23:00 | 238 MB
Take your business from average to extraordinary
The Wealthy Franchisee pulls concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy, brain science, interviews, and Scott Greenberg’s firsthand experience as a franchisee to help listeners replicate the mental habits, tactics, and financial results of high-performing franchisees. As a franchising consultant, Scott Greenberg has helped franchise owners and franchisees improve their performance. Listeners will learn how to:

Free Download Darrin Donnelly, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "The Mental Game: Winning the War Within Your Mind (Sports for the Soul)"
English | ASIN: B0CK99JB7L | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:41:00 | 133 MB
In this inspirational fable, Jack McKee is a professional golfer who has just suffered through the most humiliating meltdown of his career. After years of struggle, he is ready to quit on his dream. He has convinced himself he doesn’t have what it takes to make it on the PGA Tour. In an attempt to figure out why his career has ended up the way it has, Jack reaches out to one of the game’s greatest former players for advice. This legendary golfer teaches Jack that the problem is not in his swing, but in his mind. As Jack learns to combat his thoughts of self-doubt and worry, his golf game improves right along with his mindset, culminating in the most important tournament of his career.
As this story plays out, you will learn: how to take control of your thoughts and make sure they are working for you instead of against you; the importance of talking to yourself instead of listening to yourself; how to develop a mental routine that will keep you in a positive state of mind; the technique used by many of the world’s most successful people to make gratitude a part of their daily lives; the fastest way to fight off worry and negative thoughts; how to protect your mind from negative, anxiety-producing, and failure-oriented messages; the importance of your self-image; the key to performing at your best under pressure; how to find peace and confidence; and more.

Free Download Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy by Martin Indyk, Simon Vance, Random House Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08SMPP3DQ | 25 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps + EPUB | 1.38 Gb
A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
"A wealth of lessons for today, not only about the challenges in that region but also about the art of diplomacy…. The drama, dazzling maneuvers, and grand strategic vision." (Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker)
More than 20 years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk – a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013 – has experienced these political frustrations and disappointments firsthand.

Free Download Hunting Game: Audible Original (Audiobook)
English | November 09, 2023 | ASIN: B0CMJMGG1T | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 31m | 252 MB
Author: Candice Fox | Narrators: Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, Tony Goldwyn, L J. Ganser, Chris Ciulla, Marc Vietor, Piper Goodeve, Helen Laser, Khristine Hvam, Dina Pearlman, Elizabeth Evans, Gabriel Vaughan, Kevin T. Collins, Brian Nishii, Mirron Willis
Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed crime writer Candice Fox’s gripping audio thriller, Hunting Game. Featuring an all-star cast including Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, and Tony Goldwyn, you’re about to enter a high-stakes game of cat and mouse.
NYPD Detective Esme ‘Es’ Compran (Krysten Ritter) finds herself torn between her duty and her own desperate circumstances when a child is kidnapped. The victim’s father, Jack Dengate (Tony Goldwyn), is a controversial big pharma CEO whose company’s price hikes on life-saving drugs have dire consequences for Es’ ailing daughter.

Free Download Game Changer: How Strategic Pricing Shapes Businesses, Markets, and Society
Author: Jean-Manuel Izaret, Arnab Sinha
Narrator: Kent Klineman
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CM4X9XRQ | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 13h 52m | 813 MB
The right pricing strategy can change the entire trajectory of a business, a market, and even society at large. To help you create your best pricing strategy efficiently and confidently, two leaders from BCG are introducing fresh perspectives on pricing that take you far beyond the realm of mind-numbing numbers.

Free Download Game Testing Masterclass
Published 1/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.02 GB | Duration: 5h 1m
A Comprehensive Guide to Launch Your Career as a Game Tester: Level Up Your Career with a Game Tester’s Toolkit