Download or read book Multiplayer written by Thorsten Quandt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, digital games have become a widely accepted form of media entertainment, moving from the traditional 'core gamer' community into the mainstream media market. With millions of people now enjoying gaming as interactive entertainment there has been a huge increase in interest in social multiplayer gaming activities. However, despite the explosive growth in the field over the past decade, many aspects of social gaming still remain unexplored, especially from a media and communication studies perspective. Multiplayer: Social Aspects of Digital Gaming is the first edited volume of its kind that takes a closer look at the various forms of human interaction in and around digital games, providing an overview of debates, past and present. The book is divided into five sections that explore the following areas: Social Aspects of Digital Gaming Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds Online Gaming Co-located and Console Gaming Risks and Challenges of Social Gaming This engaging interdisciplinary book will appeal to upper level students, postgrads and researchers in games research, specifically those focusing on new media and digital games, as well as researchers in media studies and mass communication.
Download or read book Arcania Gothic 4 written by Bryan Dawson and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Maps of every area reveal every critical piece of information! *Detailed walkthroughs will guide you through every quest, puzzle, and enemy encounter! *Full equipment lists will show you where to find the best gear possible! *The comprehensive bestiary will teach you everything you need to know about each enemy. *Expert tactics to conquer the intricacies of combat! * This digital eGuide download features easy-to-use clickable navigation on every page * Fully searchable so you can find exactly what you want, when you want * View on-screen or print out pages
Download or read book Religions in Play written by Philippe Bornet and published by Theologischer Verlag Zürich. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often dismissed as "not serious", the notion of play has nevertheless been at the centre of classical theories of religion and ritual (Huizinga, Caillois, Turner, Staal, etc.). What can be retained of those theories for the contemporary study of religions? Can a study of "play" or "game" bring new perspectives for the study of religions? The book deals with the history of games and their relation to religions, the links between divination and games, the relations between sport and ritual, the pedagogical functions of games in religious education, and the interaction between games, media and religions. Richly illustrated, the book contributes to the study of religions, to ritual, game and media studies, and addresses an academic as well as a general public. Philippe Bornet, Dr. Phil., born in 1977, is Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the Faculty of Lettres of the University of Lausanne, with focus on the history of interrelations between India and Europe. Maya Burger is Professor of Indian Studies and History of Religions at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Download or read book A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English written by Sherri L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
Download or read book Teach Like a Gamer written by Carly Finseth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital role-playing games such as Rift, Diablo III, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning help players develop skills in critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, and lifelong learning. The author examines both the benefits and the drawbacks of role-playing games and their application to real-world teaching techniques. Readers will learn how to incorporate games-based instruction into their own classes and workplace training, as well as approaches to redesigning curriculum and programs.
Download or read book Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games written by Kate Galloway and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games brings together a range of perspectives that explore how music and sound in video games interact with virtual and real environments, often in innovative and unexpected ways. Drawing on a range of game case studies and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors consider the sonic environment in games as its own storytelling medium. Highlighting how dynamic video game soundscapes respond to players’ movements, engage them in collaborative composition, and actively contribute to worldbuilding, the chapters discuss topics including genre conventions around soundscape design, how sonic environments shape players’ perceptions, how game sound and music model ecological processes and nonhuman relationships, and issues of cultural and geographic representation. Together, the essays in this volume bring game music and sound into the environmental humanities and transform our understanding of sonic environments as an essential part of storytelling in interactive media. Engaging a wide variety of game genres and communities of play, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, critical game studies, popular culture, and sound studies.
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Download or read book Folk Horror written by Adam Scovell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Isle of Winds written by James Fahy and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isle of Winds is an engrossing high fantasy tale, following the adventures of Robin, a seemingly unremarkable boy who is swept up into a war between our world, and the Netherworlde, a shadowy realm which lies beyond our own.
Download or read book Arcania Gothic 4 written by Jacek Hałas and published by Litres. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas świata jest uzupełnieniem poradnika do Arcania: Gothic 4. Można w nim znaleźć informacje na temat rozwoju postaci, wytwarzania przedmiotów, rozmieszczenia kupców, a także bestiariusz ze wskazówkami dotyczącymi walki z konkretnymi typami potworów. Arcania: Gothic 4 – Atlas Świata – poradnik do gry zawiera poszukiwane przez graczy tematy i lokacje jak m.in. Wojownik (Rozwój postaci) Plany (2) (Wytwarzanie przedmiotów) Mag (Rozwój postaci) Łucznik (Rozwój postaci) Zdolności (Rozwój postaci) Ogólne wskazówki (Rozwój postaci) Mapa świata (Świat gry) Bestiariusz (2) (Świat gry) Bestiariusz (1) (Świat gry) Osiągnięcia Informacja o grze Gra akcji RPG, w której wcielamy się w kolejnego bezimiennego bohatera i ratujemy świat. Produkcja opowiada o przygodach prostego chłopaka wyruszającego na wielką przygodę. Podczas zabawy przemierzamy kolejne lokacje, wykonujemy zadania, walczymy z przeciwnikami i zbieramy coraz lepsze przedmioty. Wszystko to utrzymano w klimatach rodem z poprzednich części serii Gothic. Gra Arcania: A Gothic Tale, to przedstawiciel gatunku RPG akcji. Tytuł wydany został w Polsce w 2010 roku i dostępny jest na platformach: PC, X360, PS3. Wersja językowa oficjalnie dystrybuowana na terenie kraju to: pełna polska.
Download or read book By Force Alone written by Lavie Tidhar and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of Arthurian myth from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone. Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The fact is they don't know sh*t. Arthur? An over-promoted gangster. Merlin? An eldritch parasite. Excalibur? A shady deal with a watery arms dealer. Britain? A clogged sewer that Rome abandoned just as soon as it could. A savage and cutting epic fantasy, equally poetic and profane, By Force Alone is a magical adventure and a subversive masterwork. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Fable III written by Doug Walsh and published by Bradygames. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide that picks up the story of life in Albion over half a century after the events of Fable II. It tracks the decisions you make, determining the type of ruler you become.
Download or read book Of the Buildings of Justinian written by Procopius and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It becomes, therefore, important to have a clear record as to what Justinian did, not only in Palestine but in other countries, so as to be able to judge to some extent, by well-authenticated examples, of the founders of those edifices whose history is involved in doubt. Of the writers who can give us this record, none has such authority as Procopius, or gives so much detailed information; and he has, for that reason, been largely quoted by Gibbon and by well-nigh every other writer on Byzantine history; and he gives such definite information as to the dates of many of Justinian's buildings which remain to us, as to form a standard by which to recognise the general characteristics in outline and detail adopted by his architects in his greatest works, and which characterize the style now well known as Byzantine." source
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Download or read book Entertainment Computing ICEC 2011 written by Junia Anacleto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2011, held in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2011, under the auspices of IFIP. The 20 revised long papers, 18 short papers and 24 poster papers and demos presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 initial submissions. The papers cover all main domains of entertainment computing, from interactive music to games, taking a wide range of scientific domains from aesthetic to computer science. The papers are organized in topical sections on story, active games, player experience, camera and 3D, educational entertainment, game development, self and identity, social and mobile entertainment; plus the four categories: demonstrations, posters, workshosp, and tutorial.
Download or read book Death and Nightingales written by Eugene McCabe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN ‘Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel’ Hilary Mantel 'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm Tóibín It is 1883 and against the fearsome, unforgiving beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters unfolds. Beth is determined to decide her own destiny but charmed by the roguish Liam Ward she seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family’s past. Through the events of her twenty-fifth birthday, decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating, deadly climax.
Download or read book RuneQuest II written by Lawrence Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mongoose stirred the roleplaying community when, in 2006, it announced the return of RuneQuest - one of the most loved and respected game systems of all time. That new edition introduced several changes to the basic system and brought RuneQuest to a new and wider community of gamers. Now, in 2009, Mongoose is delighted to announce the release of RuneQuest II. This new edition of the classic game has taken just about every aspect of the first edition, scrutinised it, revised it, and restructured it to bring RuneQuest aficionados and new players alike the very best incarnation of the classic games engine. RuneQuest fans will not be disappointed in the attention lavished on this edition. This edition comes as a stunning leather-bound luxury hardback as standard, ensuring every player has a true collector's item on their shelves.
