Tag: Games

Free Download Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKKG7TVY | 2024 | 11 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 337 MB
Author: Kelly Clancy
Narrator: Patty Nieman
A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They’re also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, political science, evolutionary biology, the development of computers and AI, cutting-edge neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.

Free Download Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Games (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0BYKQN478 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 34m | 366 MB
Author: Marcus du Sautoy | Narrator: Mark Elstob
Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?
Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture.

Free Download Tom Tresser, "No Games Chicago: How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid"
English | ISBN: 1032734736 | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 78 MB
Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a "city-killer" that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties. This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to derail Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics in an entertaining case study of local activism with international reach. The group’s detailed strategies and tactics provide a much-needed playbook for scholars, journalists, and activists seeking people-powered alternatives to megaprojects and other tourism-centric economic development schemes.

Free Download Augmented Reality Games II: The Gamification of Education, Medicine and Art by Vladimir Geroimenko
English | EPUB | 2019 | 306 Pages | ISBN : 3030156192 | 170.7 MB
This is the second of two comprehensive volumes that provide a thorough and multi-faceted research into the emerging field of augmented reality games and consider a wide range of its major issues. These first ever research monographs on augmented reality games have been written by a team of 70 leading researchers, practitioners and artists from 20 countries.

Free Download Joshua Glenn, "UNBORED Games: Serious Fun for Everyone"
English | ISBN: 162040706X | 2014 | pages | AZW3 | 16 MB
UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED ("It’s a book! It’s a guide! It’s a way of life!" -Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations-games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned favorites to today’s high-tech games. The book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: intricate clapping games, bike rodeo, Google Earth challenges, croquet golf, capture the flag, and the best ever apps to play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers. The lessons here: all games can be self-customized, or hacked. You can even make up your own games. Some could even change the world.

Free Download Nick Yee, "The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us―And How They Don’t"
English | ISBN: 0300190999 | 2014 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 484 KB
A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology

Free Download The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0: Harness the power of Godot Engine’s GDScript network API to connect players in multiplayer games by Henrique Campos
English | December 22nd, 2023 | ISBN: 1803232617 | 326 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 6.31 MB
Level up your Godot 4 networking skills with this comprehensive guide featuring dedicated servers and persistent worlds, illustrated with key images in color

Free Download Ivan Moscovich, "Super-games"
English | ISBN: 009156381X | | 126 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Free Download Steamy Sex Games (The Erotic Couple’s Playbook) by
English | October 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 0760392447 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 1.99 MB
Break free from bedroom boredom with this luscious little book of sex games.

Free Download Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium (Ethics and Sport) by Bernard Suits
English | September 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 1032201363 | 190 pages | True EPUB | 4.07 MB
In this sequel to Bernard Suits’ timeless classic philosophical work The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, published in its full and unabridged form for the first time, Suits continues to explore some of our most fundamental philosophical questions, including the value of sport and games, and their relationship to the good life.