Tag: Game

Free Download Martin Barker, "Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage With Dark Television"
English | ISBN: 1526152177 | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked at from many different angles. But to date there has been little research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major international research project that garnered more than 10,000 responses to an innovative ‘qualiquantitative’ questionnaire. Among its findings are: a new way of understanding the place and role of favourite characters in audiences’ responses; new insights into the role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world; and an account of two combined emotions – relish and anguish – which structure audiences’ reactions to controversial elements in the series.

Free Download Joleen Blom, "Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character "
English | ISBN: 9463722955 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 1404 KB
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined.

Free Download Joleen Blom, "Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character "
English | ISBN: 9463722955 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 1404 KB
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined.

Free Download Unity Game Development Cookbook: Essentials for Every Game by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jon Manning, Tim Nugent
English | March 13th, 2019 | ISBN: 1491999152 | 408 pages | True PDF | 34.29 MB
Discover how to use the Unity game engine to its full potential for both 3D and 2D game development-from the basics of scripting to useful tricks in gameplay, behavior, and animation.

Free Download Matthew Brake, "Theology and Game of Thrones "
English | ISBN: 1978707622 | 2022 | 342 pages | EPUB, PDF | 536 KB + 3 MB
This book explores many of the theological and religious themes present in the Game of Thrones HBO television series and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Written for academics yet accessible for the layperson, the chapters explore themes of power, religion, and sacred institutions in Westeros; Christian ecclesiology in the Night’s Watch and the religion of the Iron Islands; Augustinian notions of evil in the Night King and anthropology in the Seven; Orientalism, Hinduism, and the many worldviews in the World of Ice and Fire, and the series more controversial and disturbing themes of rape and death. Theology and Game of Thrones will appeal to theology and religious studies scholars and fans alike as it explores these elements in Martin’s complex fantasy epic.

Free Download The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
English | September 2nd, 2021 | ISBN: 0008354677 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 0.76 MB
‘Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas … The Status Game might be his best yet’ James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times

Free Download The Pyramid of Game Design: Designing, Producing and Launching Service Games by Nicholas Lovell
English | December 7th, 2018 | ISBN: 1138298891, 1138298999 | 326 pages | True EPUB | 3.08 MB
Game design is changing. The emergence of service games on PC, mobile and console has created new expectations amongst consumers and requires new techniques from game makers.

Free Download The Power of Play: The Game Design Approach to Transforming Employee Engagement by George Kesselman
English | November 29th, 2023 | ISBN: 1394228015 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 0.25 MB
Level-up employee productivity, creativity, and inspiration at your workplace

Free Download The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning by Ana Lorena Fábrega
English | September 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1804090093 | 304 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 4.77 MB
How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years?

Free Download So You Want to Be a Game Master: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other Systems by Justin Alexander
English | November 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 1645679152 | 544 pages | True EPUB | 17.89 MB
Become the Ultimate Game Master