Download or read book Insert Coin to Play written by Jamie Justice and published by Jamie Justice. This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want to first say thank you for taking the time to consider reading my book of video game poetry. I believe all writing is an art-form, and I must wield that creative spark. Video game literature has existed for years; however, it has yet been fully recognized as the literary art-form that it is. It is often flippantly swatted away, like an unfamiliar pet that you dare not take a chance on. Within my poetry, I seek to show how video games (and poetry), can be an effective tool of us understanding and coping with the insanity of today’s modern world. With each poem, I strive to tell a story. Often the focus of my poetry is that of a person who is marginalized; they are often seen a monstrous, or a pariah because of their differences. I seek to answer the question: “What does it mean to be human?” Is it our actions, our thoughts and heart? Or is it how others see us, we shape our reality to meet those expectations? Video games are a universal way of doing this. Please enjoy my book of poems, and I hope it touches your heart.

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Download or read book Get in the Game written by Jonathan Stringfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide for marketers and execs wishing to integrate their brands with modern games and esports In Get in the Game: How to Level Up Your Business with Gaming, Esports, and Emerging Technologies, decorated gaming and social media research and marketing executive Jonathan Stringfield delivers a roadmap to understanding and navigating marketing and business integrations into the gaming ecosystem: who plays games (and why), how modern games are created and oriented around the world of esports, and where brands can get involved with modern games. This book explains the breadth and depth of the gaming audience, describing the rapidly changing demographics of modern games and the various motivations gamers have for playing games. It also unpacks the history of gaming and how it has impacted the creative processes and output from the industry. Finally, it offers a practical guide for brands wishing to integrate themselves into new gaming environments, with an emphasis on maximizing success for marketers, developers, content creators, and fans. Get in the Game provides: A thorough introduction to why marketers and executives must pay closer attention to gaming, as well as existing roadblocks to understanding the gaming industry Comprehensive explorations of the psychology and motivations of gaming, and implications towards messaging and brand safety. Practical discussions of gaming as a competitive platform or streaming viewing experience. In-depth examinations of gaming ad placements, deep marketing integrations between companies and games, and future directions for the industry and how it relates to the emergence of the metaverse. Perfect for marketing strategists, brand managers, and Chief Marketing Officers, Get in the Game will also earn a place in the libraries of executives seeking to connect with the misunderstood yet largest segment in consumer entertainment.

Download or read book Let Me Play written by Radford Castro and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever skip dinner to finish that "impossible" level? Have you ever tossed your keyboard out the window after losing a game, or swung your controller around because you lost that power up? Would you like to learn a little bit about the underground world of emulation? If you answered yes to any of the above, this book was meant for you. With an insider's look at how people interact with the games and with each other, Radford Castro's tales of gaming are almost as fun as playing the games themselves.

Download or read book Insert Coin to Continue written by John David Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle-schooler Bryan wakes up to find that his life has become a video game, with bullies to beat, races to run, puzzles to solve, and much more at stake.

Download or read book Rules of Play written by Katie Salen Tekinbas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain a deeper understanding of games and game design through 18 pioneering frameworks—with examples from board games, computer games, video games, and more. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like “play,” “design,” and “interactivity.” They look at games through a series of 18 “game design schemas,” or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.

Download or read book Digital Play written by Stephen Kline and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a marketplace that demands perpetual upgrades, the survival of interactive play ultimately depends on the adroit management of negotiations between game producers and youthful consumers of this new medium. The authors suggest a model of expansion that encompasses technological innovation, game design, and marketing practices. Their case study of video gaming exposes fundamental tensions between the opposing forces of continuity and change in the information economy: between the play culture of gaming and the spectator culture of television, the dynamism of interactive media and the increasingly homogeneous mass-mediated cultural marketplace, and emerging flexible post-Fordist management strategies and the surviving techniques of mass-mediated marketing. Digital Play suggests a future not of democratizing wired capitalism but instead of continuing tensions between "access to" and "enclosure in" technological innovation, between inertia and diversity in popular culture markets, and between commodification and free play in the cultural industries. -- publisher description.

Download or read book Videogame player text written by Barry Atkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Videogame, player, text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. With essays from a range of internationally renowned game scholars, the major aim of this collection is to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each essay focuses on specific examples of gameplay dynamics to tease out the specificities of videogames as a new form of interaction between text and digital technology for the purposes of entertainment. That modes of engagement with the videogame text are many and varied, and construct the playing subject in different ways, provides the central theme of Videogame,player, text. Online play, clan membership, competitive or co-operative play, player modification of game texts, and the solo play of a single player are each addressed through individual analyses of the gameplay experiences produced by, for example, The Sims, Grand Theft Auto, Prince of Persia, Doom, Quake, World of Warcraft, StreetFighter and Civilisation.

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Download or read book The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book Volume 1 written by The Makers of The MagPi magazine and published by Raspberry Pi Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Raspberry Pi projects book returns with inspirational projects, detailed step-by-step guides, and product reviews based around the phenomenon that is the Raspberry Pi. See why educators and makers adore the credit card-sized computer that can be used to make robots, retro games consoles, and even art. In this volume of The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book, you'll: Get involved with the amazing and very active Raspberry Pi community Be inspired by incredible projects made by other people Learn how to make with your Raspberry Pi with our tutorials Find out about the top kits and accessories for your Pi projects And much, much more! If this is your first time using a Raspberry Pi, you'll also find some very helpful guides to get you started with your Raspberry Pi journey. With millions of Raspberry Pi boards out in the wild, that's millions more people getting into digital making and turning their dreams into a Pi-powered reality. Being so spoilt for choice though means that we've managed to compile an incredible list of projects, guides, and reviews for you. This book was written using an earlier version of Raspberry Pi OS. Please use Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) for full compatibility. See magpi.cc/legacy for more information.

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