Download or read book Gamescape Overworld written by Emma Trevayne and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying boy on a dying planet plays a dangerous, sophisticated, and addictive game that could save his life—if it doesn’t kill him first. A complex, gorgeous, literary thriller for fans for Ernest Cline, Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, and M.T. Anderson. In a futuristic version of Earth, society is mostly controlled by a company that produces an addictive virtual reality game called Chimera. Everyone plays Chimera. Defeating the levels is how you earn enough points for clothes, food, even medical enhancements. Miguel Anderson is good at it. In fact, he’s better than anyone he knows. He spends all of his free time playing, hoping to reach Level 25. At Level 25 you can pick any prize you want—and Miguel needs a new biometric heart. When the game runners announce a global competition to launch a new version with untold prizes, Miguel enters and becomes a team leader. That’s new for him—playing on a team. And complicated, as the game becomes a delicate power play between wholly unexpected players. This is the first of two books and features gorgeous writing, compelling action, and a flawed and memorable hero.
Download or read book Gamescape Underworld written by Emma Trevayne and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invasion of the Overworld written by Mark Cheverton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Minecraft comes to life in this thrilling adventure! Gameknight999 loved Minecraft, but above all else, he loved to grief--to intentionally ruin the gaming experience for other users. When one of his father's inventions teleports him into the game, Gameknight is forced to live out a real-life adventure inside a digital world. What will happen if he's killed? Will he respawn? Die in real life? Stuck in the game, Gameknight discovers Minecraft's best-kept secret, something not even the game's programmers realize: the creatures within the game are alive! He will have to stay one step ahead of the sharp claws of zombies and pointed fangs of spiders, but he'll also have to learn to make friends and work as a team if he has any chance of surviving the Minecraft war his arrival has started. This action-packed tribute to the worldwide computer game phenomenon is a runaway publishing smash and the perfect companion for Minecraft fans of all ages.
Download or read book Spiritfarmer the Other Secrets written by Hugh Mann and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of fear, convention has ingrained, or perhaps pioneered, a standard where by most interesting facts are presented as fiction. As I had grown tired of fear, and tired of pretending, ..and perhaps because I am somewhat of a bully, ...I began to present interesting facts, ...as interesting facts. And that, fellow players, ...apparently is Friction. Spiritfarming, as 'self-help', represents a basic opposite to traditional self help, in that you do NOT struggle, strive, self discipline, improve, sacrifice, fix the world, care about the world, socialize, or change. You simply accept, and DO, ...'YOU'.
Download or read book Invasion of the Overworld written by Mark Cheverton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gameknight999 is accidentally teleported into his favorite video game, Minecraft, he discovers that all of the monsters in the game are alive and must make friends and work as part of a team to survive.
Download or read book Trapped in the Overworld written by Winter Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three friends are sucked into Minecraft and now must learn how to survive in a virtual world!"--
Download or read book The World of Final Fantasy VII written by Jason C. Cash and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final Fantasy VII altered the course of video game history when it was released in 1997 on Sony's PlayStation system. It converted the Japanese role-playing game into an international gaming standard with enhanced gameplay, spectacular cutscenes and a vast narrative involving an iconic cast. In the decades after its release, the Final Fantasy VII franchise has grown to encompass a number of video game sequels, prequels, a feature-length film, a novel and a multi-volume remake series. This volume, the first edited collection of essays devoted only to the world of Final Fantasy VII, blends scholarly rigor with fan passion in order to identify the elements that keep Final Fantasy VII current and exciting for players. Some essays specifically address the game's perennially relevant themes and scenarios, ranging from environmental consciousness to economic inequity and posthumanism. Others examine the mechanisms used to immerse the player or to improve the narrative. Finally, there are several essays devoted specifically to the game's legacy, from its influence on later games to its characters' many crossovers and cameos.
Download or read book Invasion of the Overworld written by Mark Cheverton and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. When Gameknight999 is accidentally teleported into his favorite video game, Minecraft, he discovers that all of the monsters in the game are alive and must make friends and work as part of a team to survive.
Download or read book Descent Into Overworld written by Liam O'Donnell and published by Feeding Change Media. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious stranger gives three friends, Hamid, Ant and Jaina, four foam swords which transports them and their principal into a world of blocks and thrust them into an epic battle to save their favorite video game.
Download or read book Journey Through the Video Game World written by Ashad Mukadam and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2013, Ronald Charlton was laid off from his job at Pacific IT and Consulting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Soon after, he decided to start playing video games, initially as a way to just let out some steam. However, it is now August, and he has still not stopped playing. He only seems to get off of the couch when he goes to eat, sleep, and work out. This is now starting to affect the relationships he has with his parents, Monica and Harold, and his brother Mitch, and especially with his girlfriend, Dawna Langston. Then, on a rainy day in August 2013, a major thunderstorm hits Calgary. Ronald, who has been playing throughout the storm, is just about to hit a new high score on his video game when lightning strikes the console, causing an electrical current to travel down the wire to his controller, which then surrounds him, and transports him to the video game world. He soon finds out from the government of the video game world, commonly called The VGG, that he must physically play and complete a number of games in a certain order only known to them in order to get home. Ronald, along with his guide Pixie, then embark on a journey to return Ronald home. Will he make it back to the real world, or is Ronald doomed to stay in the video game world forever?
Download or read book Game World written by C. J. Farley and published by Black Sheep. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle school terrifies Dylan till he unlocks a real-life world inside a video game. For fans of Ready Player One.
Download or read book Perfect World II written by Ltd Perfect World Co and published by Cypi Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect World II is a collection of stunning promotional art from famous game studio Perfect World, Co., Ltd, that brings the larger-than-life characters and settings of Perfect Worlds creations directly into its audiences grasp. Four sections covering character posters, scene posters, plot posters and case studies present a visual feast for CG art fans in this follow-up work to Perfect World I, with stunning images of characters, settings and battles both conceptual and realized in their games. In recent years, Perfect Worlds illustrators have received various awards in the international arena, including first prize in the Unearthly Challenge contest in 2013. Now the work of these award-winning artists many of which have never been published before have been assembled in a collection that reveals Perfect Worlds visions of gods, goddesses, demons, and angels, all set against the epic background of Chinese mythology.
Download or read book Leaving Mundania written by Lizzie Stark and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing a subculture only beginning to enter the imagination of mainstream America, this is the story of live action role-playing (LARP) games. A hybrid of games—such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend—LARP games are thriving and this book explores its multifaceted culture and related phenomenon, including the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group that boasts more than 32,000 members. The history of LARP is detailed and is shown to have arisen from the pageantry of Tudor England and is currently being used as a training tool for the U.S. military. Along the way, the author duels foes with foam-padded weapons, lets the great elder god Cthulhu destroy her parents' beach house, and endures an existential awakening in the high-art LARP scene of Scandinavia.
Download or read book Tetris written by Brian "Box" Brown and published by First Second. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Tetris on Apple TV+, read the true story of Henk Rogers, Alexey Pajitnov, and the perfect game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you’ll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. You’ll see them in your dreams. Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was an instant hit. Nintendo, Atari, Sega—game developers big and small all wanted Tetris. A bidding war was sparked, followed by clandestine trips to Moscow, backroom deals, innumerable miscommunications, and outright theft. In this graphic novel, New York Times–bestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and delves deep into the role games play in art, culture, and commerce. For the first time and in unparalleled detail, Tetris: The Games People Play tells the true story of the world’s most popular video game.
Download or read book The Overworld Games written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through some creative creeping, Gerald manages to get a few new events on the Overworld Games' schedule that he may be able to compete in successfully, but the team from the Nether looks awfully tough and he could be in way over his head.
Download or read book Game World written by C. J. Farley and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Rudee is suddenly pulled into the world of his favorite video game, where he encounters actual monsters, giant storytelling spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, and the ultimate challenge of learning how to be a hero.
Download or read book More Than a Game written by Andrey Vasilyev and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a future, in which advanced technology creates a virtual world, with superior capabilities that allow players to experience real-world sensations. The popularity of the RPG game Fayroll is growing by the day, attracting millions of users to this alternate reality. What is the secret of Fayroll? What makes it so different from other games?Our protagonist, Harriton Nikiforov is an everyman - a binge drinking, tabloid column reporter who has settled for the humdrum of the everyday, with a job that pays the wages, a neurotic girlfriend who gives him migraines and a boss that gives him constant grief. Tasked with a new assignment, Harriton suddenly finds himself ripped away from his normal routine of Moscow society life, to a journalistic quest of sorts that leads him deep into the realm of the Virtual Gaming World of Fayroll. Given explicit orders to write a series of fluff pieces on the game and its developers, Harriton grudgingly accepts the assignment, but soon finds himself enthralled by the virtual fantasy world and its amazing quests, unpredictable challenges, and nearly endless possibilities. Harriton is reincarnated as a warrior named Hagen and becomes a full participant in the fantasy world, plunging into the exciting world full of action, quests, humor, legendary weapons and ancient secrets. He meets faithful and courageous comrades and outwits those who are trying to hunt him.In this world, the thirst for success and vanity of high-level players in pursuit of legendary objects spills into the real world, where high-stakes bets are made on the success of the virtual characters. Harriton, as Hagen, unwittingly enters into the Fayroll world, where events and decisions that he makes in the virtual space starts to affect his own reality. His unpredictable character, perseverance, and excitement attract the attention of powerful gamers and influential Moscow elite with a vested interest in Fayroll's outcome. It is not long before he realizes that this fantastic world, (created according to the best canons of cult games, Warcraft and Lineage), conceals many dangers. Can he pass all the tests?Fayroll is more than a novel; it's a brilliant synergy of fantasy fiction and online gaming. It gives the reader the best of both worlds. The first novel of the 13 part epic series Fayroll, has captivated Russian readers countrywide and was voted the 2014 new fantasy book of the year. Andrey Vasilyev's masterpiece 'More Than a Game' is now available to the English-speaking World. Join us in this breathtaking narrative that takes both its main character and the reader deep into the heart of the Virtual Gaming Universe and explore the Fantasy Series that has captured the imagination of the Slavic world.
