Download or read book How to Game People Without Even Trying written by Elizabeth Cooke and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, international financier Saul Mammon is king. Hes enigmatic, charismatic, and, one could argue, evil. Nobody plays the game like Saul. His obsessive motivations are practically erotic in nature. He got what he wanted when he wanted it without even trying, but a sensational life lived so precariously on edge can never last. He was once a young boy in New York, born to a modest family, with dreams of climbing the gilded ladder to riches and fame. He achieves all this and more with direct connection to leaders not only in the United States but also in the Soviet Union, Paris, and beyond. His only daughter, Sara, watches from the sidelines as her father inches ever closer to the world of power and deceit. Sauls brilliance and dark side eventually lead to his mysterious death and a rapid cover-up. Perhaps it was inevitable that such an ambitious man would fall, but Sara is haunted by questions, most of which will never be answered. Based on a true story, the rise and fall of Saul Mammon shows what happens when ambition turns malicious and when money is never enough.

Download or read book Game Design Workshop written by Tracy Fullerton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As experienced teachers of novice game designers, the authors have discovered patterns in the way that students grasp game design - the mistakes they make as well as the methods to help them to create better games. Each exercise requires no background in programming or artwork, releasing beginning designers from the intricacies of electronic game production and allowing them to learn what works and what doesn't work in a game system. Additionally, these exercises teach important skills in system design: the processes of prototyping, playtesting, and redesigning.

Download or read book Classic Game Design written by Franz Lanzinger and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You too can learn to design and develop classic arcade video games like Pong, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Scramble. Collision detection, extra lives, power ups, and countless other essential design elements were invented by the mostly anonymous designers at the early pioneering companies that produced these great games. In this book you’ll go step by step, using modern, free software tools such as Unity to create five games in the classic style, inspired by retro favorites like: Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, Scramble, and Pac-Man. All the source code, art, and sound sources for the projects are available on the companion files. You'll discover the fun of making your own games, putting in your own color graphics, adjusting the scoring, coding the AI, and creating the sound effects. You'll gain a deep understanding of the roots of modern video game design: the classics of the ’70s and ’80s. Features: Uses Unity, C#, Blender, GIMP, and Audacity to make five fun classic games 4-color throughout with companion files that include source code, art, and full projects (also available for downloading from the publisher by emailing proof of purchase to [email protected]) Includes historical anecdotes direct from one of the fabled Atari coin-op programmers Detailed step-by-step instructions, dozens of exercises, and rules of classic game design Contains unique insights on applying classic game design concepts to modern games.

Download or read book Living Can Be Fun written by Elizabeth Keyes and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our reactions and attitudes are the framework of our lives.Realizing how we unconsciously react and what our beliefs and attitudes are can enable us to change them and make living not simply survival, but fun.

Download or read book The Dating Game written by Vaidas Cikotas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’ve been single a week, a month, a year or longer, you’re probably well aware how challenging it can be to fi nd someone worth dating. You may even be wondering if there is anyone worthwhile left at all. Are all the “Good Ones” taken?? Thankfully no, it can just seem that way . . . The search for love requires us all to play the dating game, and inside this book are “tales from the trenches”—A guy’s inside view on what really goes on in the singles scene and some things that you can do to navigate your way through. Inside are true stories and observations that you will relate to, sympathize with, laugh at and hopefully gain some insight as to what you might do a bit differently in your search for love.

Download or read book Mobile Game Engines written by Jason Brownlee and published by Jason Brownlee. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a total of 22 exclusive interviews on the making of start-of-the-art mobile game engines for Apple and Android devices as well as the web. In this book you'll gain direct first-hand knowledge of how the mobile developer elite design, develop and deliver modern game engines while keeping abreast of the latest features offered by mobile devices. There is no abstracting or watering down of their experiences. You will read about what do, in their own words. The interviews were designed to collect wisdom from game engine developers around the problems of working with and maintaining off-the-shelf mobile game engines, and you will agree that this objective was far exceeded. You will get a snapshot into the thoughts and processes from a diverse and successful collection of mobile game engine developers from around the world. You will feel recharged and will be reinvigorated in your own game development efforts. The sage advice in these interviews will be useful in navigating, selecting and working with the tidal wave of promising mobile game engines available. Reading these interviews will help you find and best use the perfect engine for your mobile game and get it into the hands of an audience that loves it just as much as you.

Download or read book Dragon s Hope written by Leah E. Welker and published by Lightbound Media. This book was released on 2024-10-19 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lives, one hope. . . . All Sarah Lind's dreams now seem within her reach: not only is she welcomed back to the Six Realms as the Queen of Ice, she is now days from her marriage to their dragon-shifter King of Flame, and, united by their powerful bond, Sarah and Ben have so far thwarted the Devourer's attempts to ruin the Realms' recovery from its invasion. Yet there is still one more dream for her to discover. However new and growing, that dream proves to be one of the most potent, and, according to the Tree of Ice, the key to saving the Realms from the Devourer once and for all. For though a King is dangerous, a Queen is more powerful. Because she, like a Tree Herself. . . can become a mother. All Koriben Sunfilled's hopes now rest on the promise the Tree of Flame gave him that if he did as She commanded, Sarah—the one person he cannot live without—would survive the darkness coming for her. Yet his Tree's command tests him to his very core, because it echoes his parents' own sacrifice to give him life, the cycle he had once vowed would end with him. But after losing so much, Ben will now do anything to save Sarah. Anything. Even . . . become a father. As desperately as they want to live and save their Realms, Sarah and Ben resolve to have a child only for the right reasons. Yet even as they wait to be sure of rightness of that course, their time is once again running out, for the Devourer will not tolerate the growing threat the Monarchs of Ice and Flame pose. Sensing in them the culmination of millennia of Tree preparations for its final defeat, the Devourer has determined they must die—and it knows just how to lure the Queen of Ice into the open. The Devourer will invade once again, this time coming for the fading Tree of Ice, whom Sarah is sworn to protect. This time . . . . . . it is coming for Earth.

Download or read book Practice Makes Progress written by Amy Latta and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurture Your Inner Artist Open yourself up to a new world of creativity and art exploration with this interactive guided journal. Amy Latta’s colorful prompts will help you let go of perfection and find joy in the process of art. Readers of Amy’s hand lettering books rave about her encouraging and friendly writing. Every time you open this book, she’ll be there to cheer you on through the ups and downs in your artistic journey, help you find that positive outlook and remind you of the value you bring to this world through the art that only you can make. Packed with bite-size guided exercises, inspirational quotes, bordered blank pages and personal stories from Amy’s life as a professional artist, this journal will empower you to embrace self-expression and to take new steps on your creative journey.

Download or read book Be the Hero of Your Own Game written by Terri Marie and published by TikiBooks.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can become a hero. Anyone. This book teaches you how to become the hero of your own game by using a powerful tool that changes the subconscious and builds self-esteem, ensuring you win. The book takes you through the game with both specific and general strategies to improve and win your life game, the game you choose.

Download or read book Start with Why written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

Download or read book I ll Be Waiting written by Kelley Armstrong and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatural horror involving a haunted-house, seances, lost loved ones, and a sinister spirit out for blood... Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future... together. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, “I’ll be waiting for you.” That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press—the terminally ill woman holding her dying husband as he promised to wait for her on the other side. Worse, that person claimed it wasn’t Anton who said the words but his ghost, hovering over his body. Since their story went public, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium—a professor of parapsychology. For the séance, they rent the Lake Erie beach house that Anton’s family once owned. The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter...in an empty shaft. Throughout it all she’s haunted by nightmares of her past. Because, unbeknownst to the others, this isn’t her first time contacting the dead. And Nicola isn’t her real name. That’s when she finds the first body.... In this atmospheric, thrilling new ghost story, Kelley Armstrong's full talents are on display to thrill, chill and leave the reader guessing how Nicola escapes with her life--if she can.

Download or read book Lucifer s Great Book written by Lucifer Jeremy Damuel White and published by Lucifer Jeremy Damuel White. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chaotic book of Luciferian things. It teaches the occult, Satanic philosophy, gray sided philosophy, becoming greater, personal growth, philanthropy, and discussion of some worthwhile topics. It is a book of improvement in the Luciferian sense, motivational at times, imparting wisdom, some enlightenment, going over the modern world, and sometimes just things that are fun to talk about.

Download or read book The Wing Chun Compendium Volume Two written by Wayne Belonoha and published by Blue Snake Books. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume, a martial arts expert continues his study of Wing Chun, a popular system of kung fu, demonstrating how it can be used to improve your mental and physical health Wing Chun, also called Ving Tsun, is a popular system of kung fu designed centuries ago by a Buddhist nun and Shaolin master. Together, the two volumes of The Wing Chun Compendium offer a complete guide to the discipline, from theory and philosophy to drills and forms. In this second volume, author Wayne Belonoha takes students to the next level, focusing on the final three and most advanced forms of the Wing Chun system and their associated skills: the “Mook Yan Jong” or wooden man; the “Lok Dim Boon Quan” or six-and-a-half point long pole; and the “Baat Cham Dao” or eight-cut sword form, demonstrated here for the first time by Grandmaster Sunny Tang. Also included are distance and angle improvement drills, fighting strategy and training, instruction on proper body mechanics, and “Sticking Hands” techniques. While intended for the serious practitioner, The Wing Chun Compendium, Volume Two also teaches the basics of body movement, psychological components of practice and performance, and how to use martial arts for overall self-improvement—factors that can help any martial artists seeking to enhance their physical and mental development. The book includes hundreds of tips and techniques as well as 400 photographs.

Download or read book A I M written by Jim Carlisle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction by Alex Gill Before embarking on the A.I.M. program, I was just an ordinary guy with a problem that many, many others have had at some point in their careers. I was unhappy. I was becoming bitter. I complained about my job a lot. I knew I was in a rut and couldn't figure out what to do about it. I felt powerless, unfocused and alone. And I didn't see a way I could make things improve. That was my starting point before I began the A.I.M. process. Today, I run my own firm that helps dozens of nonprofits improve their community impact each year. I work on very interesting and socially relevant projects for an ever-growing roster of clients. I have flown around the world to talk about community building, environmentalism and social marketing. I also teach at an innovative downtown university where the students are a joy to teach and my fellow professors often remark on my enthusiasm for my work and life in general. My friends and family constantly note that I seem happier and more motivated as the years go by. This did not happen because of some exceptional piece of luck - nor because of some superhuman ability or intelligence on my part ... I was someone who happened upon a method - the A.I.M. method - that helped me determine who I was and what inspired me, and then put me on the path to achieving it. It happened because I put those principles into action with the help and guidance of a coach like Jim Carlisle. I hope as you read this book that you will appreciate how A.I.M. changed my life - and how it could help you change yours. Jim and I have taken the better part of a year to write this book because we believe in strongly in helping those who need a way out. Every day we see people who would benefit from taking charge of their lives and moving forward to achieve, inspire and make a difference. If you see a bit of yourself in my story - or in the dozens of stories we will share in this book — read on. I hope your journey is even more productive and rewarding than my own.

Download or read book Forbidden Bookshelf Presents Dan E Moldea written by Dan E. Moldea and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three exposés of corruption—behind the NFL, the Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa, and Ronald Reagan—from an investigative reporter who “never relents” (The Washington Post). Interference: A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites. “[A] true and terrifying picture of a business whose movers and shakers seem to have more connections to gambling and the mob than to touchdowns and Super Bowls.” —Keith Olbermann The Hoffa Wars: The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president, Jimmy Hoffa—organizer, gangster, convict, and conspirator—whose disappearance in 1975 remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. “Mr. Moldea’s view of [the Hoffa] wars, which reached its greatest intensity when Robert Kennedy was Attorney General, may explain not only Mr. Hoffa’s disappearance, but the assassination of John Kennedy as well.” —The Wall Street Journal Dark Victory: A “smoldering indictment” of the corrupt influences that rescued Ronald Reagan’s acting career, made him millions (resulting in a federal grand jury hearing), backed his political career, and shaped his presidency (Library Journal). “[Moldea] has, through sheer tenacity, amassed an avalanche of ominous and unnerving facts. [Dark Victory is] a book about power, ego, and the American way.” —Los Angeles Times

Download or read book Did You Know This written by Rosemary LeRoy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is about some of the things some people in the entertainment world do on a daily regular basis you may not have heard of. I was married to a man who worked for a famous country/rock band. My eyes were opened to a whole other world of goings on that I knew little about. Some do such wacky wrong things it is hard to believe even if they are in the entertainment world. Some do not want people to know and some are so out there, that they do want people to know what they do because it would help their image. Believe it or not.

Download or read book Liquid Life written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the ‘use by’ dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over their acquisition. This and other challenges of life in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one of the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time.