Download or read book The Playful Undead and Video Games written by Stephen J. Webley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanations of their enduring appeal – that they embody an aesthetic that combines horror with a mindless target; that lower age ratings for zombie games widen the market; or that Artificial Intelligence routines for zombies are easier to develop – the book provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive look at this cultural phenomenon. Drawing on detailed case studies from across the genre, contributors from a variety of backgrounds offer insights into how the study of zombies in the context of video games informs an analysis of their impact on contemporary popular culture. Issues such as gender, politics, intellectual property law, queer theory, narrative storytelling and worldbuilding, videogame techniques and technology, and man’s relation to monsters are closely examined in their relation to zombie video games. Breaking new ground in the study of video games and popular culture, this volume will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including media, popular culture, video games, and media psychology.

Download or read book Outbreak Undead written by Christopher De La Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outbreak: Undead is a Zombie Survival Simulation RPG that is not only fun, but an essential step in surviving the Undead. This book provides the most dramatic, effective, and above all realistic means in which to (safely) simulate the events of a zombie uprising and try your chances at survival!"--Cover.

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media written by Eric Freedman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyday life. From video games to robotic companions to digital twins, artificial intelligence drives large sectors of the culture industry where play, media and machine learning coexist. This book illustrates how playable media contribute to our sense of self, while also harnessing our data, tightening our bonds with computation and realigning play with the demands of network logic. Author Eric Freedman examines a number of popular media forms - from the Sony AIBO robotic dog, video game developer Naughty Dog’s Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, to Peloton’s connected fitness equipment - to lay bare the computational processes that undergird playable media, and addresses the social, cultural, technological and economic forces that continue to shape user-centered experience and design. The case studies are drawn from a number of related research fields, including science and technology studies, media studies and software studies. This book is ideal for media studies students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding how applied artificial intelligence works in popular, public and visual culture.

Download or read book Dead City written by Joe McKinney and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relentless thrill ride. . . Break out the popcorn, you're in for a real treat. --Harry Shannon, author of Dead and Gone Texas? Toast. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying--but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life--with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. . . The Nightmare Begins Within hours, the plague has spread all over Texas. San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds his city overrun by a voracious army of the living dead. Along with a small group of survivors, Eddie must fight off the savage horde in a race to save his family. . . Hell On Earth There's no place to run. No place to hide. The zombie horde is growing as the virus runs rampant. Eddie knows he has to find a way to destroy these walking horrors. . .but he doesn't know the price he will have to pay. . . "Hair-raising. Do yourself a favor and snag a copy. . . thank me later." --Gene O'Neill, author of Deathflash "A merciless, fast-paced and genuinely scary read that will leave you absolutely breathless." --Brian Keene

Download or read book Horror Video Games written by Bernard Perron and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes. The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.

Download or read book Dead City written by James Ponti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.

Download or read book Immersive Embodiment written by Liam Jarvis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of ‘virtual embodiment’ in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant’s sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent ‘immersive’ practices in an increasingly expanding and cross-disciplinary field are coinciding with a wealth of new scientific knowledge in body-ownership and self-attribution. A growing understanding of the way a body constructs its sense of selfhood is intersecting with the historically persistent desire to make an onto-relational link between the body that ‘knows’ an experience and bodies that cannot know without occupying their unique point of view. The author argues that the desire to empathize with another’s ineffable bodily experiences is finding new expression in contexts of particular urgency. For example, patients wishing to communicate their complex physical experiences to their extended networks of support in healthcare, or communities placing policymakers ‘inside’ vulnerable, marginalized or disenfranchised virtual bodies in an attempt to prompt personal change. This book is intended for students, academics and practitioner-researchers studying or working in the related fields of immersive theatre/art-making, arts-science and VR in applied performance practices.

Download or read book Omniscience written by Christophe Bruchansky and published by Christophe Bruchansky. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Omniscience” is a sci-fi graphic novel. Its story is set in a hypothetical future where augmented reality has invaded our daily lives, thanks to contact lenses superimposing virtual characters into reality. One of these characters, Ingeborg, is particularly popular: she is like a second mother for generations of children, devoted and insightful. She is, however, disavowed by more and more of her subscribers – authorities suspecting her of being more harmful than beneficial to their well-being. This is what two teenagers are going to discover when they help a young fellow from their boarding school to find his parents, who abandoned him a few years earlier for an unknown reason... The graphic novel sits halfway between dystopian novel and psychological drama. It invites the reader to reflect on the finalities of some of the social changes that we witness today, such as the virtualization of human interaction, its increasing documentation, and its use for commercial purposes

Download or read book Buttonless written by Ryan Rigney and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents some of the most interesting iPhone and iPad games, along with stories of the people behind these games. It describes hundreds of titles, including well-known games and hidden games, and provides insight into the development of games for the iOS platform.

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Models and Tools for Serious Games Emerging Concepts and Future Directions written by Van Eck, Richard and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the need for interdisciplinary awareness in the study of games and learning"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Zombie Town written by R. L. Stine and published by Two Lions. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Parachute Press, 2001.

Download or read book Trouble in zombie town written by Mark Cheverton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unofficial Minecrafter's adventure. With his sister stuck in Minecraft, Gameknight999 will have to face a new enemy to save her!

Download or read book ICT Systems and Sustainability written by Milan Tuba and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2022), held in Goa, India, on 29–30 July 2022. The book covers the topics such as big data and data mining, data fusion, IoT programming toolkits and frameworks, green communication systems and network, use of ICT in smart cities, sensor networks and embedded system, network and information security, wireless and optical networks, security, trust, and privacy, routing and control protocols, cognitive radio and networks, and natural language processing. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.

Download or read book The End of the World written by Fantasy Flight and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come face to face with the living dead in Zombie Apocalypse, the first book in The End of the World roleplaying line! This roleplaying game offers you the chance to imagine unique adventures, playing as yourself during the tumult of the apocalypse, relying upon your own skills, wits, and talents to survive. Five scenarios each offer a different setting and sub-genre for the rise of the undead. Moreover, each scenario contains sections for both the apocalypse and post-apocalypse, challenging you to navigate the initial panic and forge a new life after the world's ending.

Download or read book Zombie Theory written by Sarah Juliet Lauro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie’s ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties—ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism—has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship. Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other. Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tayla Nyong’o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, U of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.

Download or read book AI 2030 written by Heather Day and published by Eden Cultures Media. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient document is discovered in the 15th millennia A.D. and published in the prestigious Journal of Bioengineering Future, by scientist and Professor of Biological Engineering, Heather Blach-Day, PhD of the elite World University. The majority of her peers deny its authenticity and categorize its contents as myth. Marie Steward Black, the scribe of this ancient autobiography, claims to be a survivor of a great calamity from the year 2024 A.D. She claims to have written the document as part of a redemption plan for mankind. In her time, humanity has been overtaken by an other-worldly force that seeks to dominate earth's inhabitants with artificial intelligence. Despite the oppression this control system represents, there is an even more nefarious purpose to their AI 2030 agenda.

Download or read book The Today and Future of WSN AI and IoT written by Chandrakant Naikodi and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doors are never locked for smart software and smart devices that are trained by smart people KEY FEATURESÊÊ - A book for everyone interested to know more about WSN, AI, and IoT - Discover various Open source tools & techniques for research and development in these felidsÊÊ - An easy-to-understand guide that will help you get familiar with the upcoming developments in WSN, AI, and IoT DESCRIPTIONÊÊ Almost every industry is looking for solutions for the best performance in the work that they produce. Researchers and developers are developing promising solutions that address the industrial problems to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of either the product or the service. This paradigm has changed the way many solutions and services are designed. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are the backbone implementation for the Internet of Things (IoT) to be realized. For the IoT to produce efficient results, Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes the key assistance; however, it needs careful modeling.Ê The content for the book is planned and prepared in such a way that you will be able to understand the concept and can interpret it for their use. The concepts, technologies, processes that are discussed in the book are contemporary and futuristic. Every chapter is well planned to be a subsequent chapter for the previous. In the Summary section of each chapter, there are a few review questions and a case for research.Ê WHAT WILL YOU LEARN - Learn about the most popular AI & IoT research topics - Discover a few WSN, IoT and AI Simulators - Get to know more about the fusion of Blockchain and IoT technologies - Know more about the AI and IoT predictions in the global scenarioÊ - Become aware of the various multi-disciplinary research based on WSN, AI, and IoT WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊÊ By nature, every human is anxious to learn and would be benefited when they find the right direction. This book is truly intended for all students, teachers, product designers, opensource developers. However, it does not limit them alone. Those who have stepped into research, afresh, will find this book a more exciting one. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. WSN, AI, and IoT: Future Shock 3. Active Research Areas of WSN, AI, and IoT 4. Simulators of WSN, AI, and IoT 5. Blockchain for WSN, AI, and IoT 6. What is Next? 7. State of AI and IoT by 2050