224 pages , 2008 Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against one. And yet throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play.'During the past fifty years, shelf-loads of books have been written instructing chi...[Read More]
192 pages , Center Street , 2009-05-30 When Olivia Bruner saw video games overtaking her young sons' lives, she decided to learn the facts behind addiction. What she found was shocking: that most games are designed to be highly addictive-triggering physiological reactions in the brain similar to those associated with substance abuse-and that one out of five kids becomes ...[Read More]
577 pages , CRC Press , 2015-04-17 Game AI Pro2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents cutting-edge tips, tricks, and techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) in games, drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field. It contains knowledge, advice, hard-earned wisdom, and insights gathered from ac...[Read More]
356 pages , tredition , 2015-03-16 My dear children, you have been gone now for many years. How can one say goodbye to people without whom one does not know how to live. For all these years the only way to keep in touch with you was by letter but always without any answer or response. You are now 18 years old, adults and responsible for yourself. These letters may remind...[Read More]
40 pages , CreateSpace , 2014-12-15 Future Race is a game for 2 to 10 players. For each player you will need a future race vehicle (a toy, lead or pewter miniature, or even a bottle cap), a vehicle sheet (photo copied from the sheet included in these rules and downloadable over at www.FutureRaceGames.com ), and a pencil with an eraser or if you laminate your vehicle shee...[Read More]
201 pages , Springer , 2007-06-26 This book explores all the latest research in the area of advanced intelligent paradigms in computer games. It presents a sample of the most recent research concerning the application of computational intelligence techniques and internet technology in computer games. The contents include: COMMONS GAME in intelligent environment; adaptive...[Read More]
179 pages , Broadview Press , 2005-11-09 In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." The short book Suits wrote demonstrating precisely th...[Read More]
238 pages , John Wiley & Sons , 2014-06-03 Provides a basic introduction to the Hudl tablet computer, including creating a Google account, connecting to Wi-Fi, personalization, navigating screens, email, applications, social media, viewing video, ebooks, and troubleshooting.
256 pages , Harlequin , 2010-03-01 As soon as Sass Walker's high-powered heels hit the New Zealand ground, she knows she's out of her element. But cool and professional as any top New York lawyer should be, she's determined to get the local tree huggers onside with her company's proposed resort. Win this, and the brass ring is hers. Lose it, and, well, that's not an opti...[Read More]
224 pages , Macmillan International Higher Education , 2011-11-29 This innovative text examines videogames and gaming from the point of view of discourse analysis. In particular, it studies two major aspects of videogame-related communication: the ways in which videogames and their makers convey meanings to their audiences, and the ways in which gamers, industry professi...[Read More]
