Download or read book Game Time written by Christopher Hanson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time? Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital games have presented a new model for understanding time in contemporary culture, a concept he calls "game time." Multivalent in nature, game time is characterized by apparent malleability, navigability, and possibility while simultaneously being highly restrictive and requiring replay and repetition. When compared to analog tabletop games, sports, film, television, and other forms of media, Hanson demonstrates that the temporal structures of digital games provide unique opportunities to engage players with liveness, causality, potentiality, and lived experience that create new ways of experiencing time Featuring comparative analysis of key video games titles—including Braid, Quantum Break, Battle of the Bulge, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Passage, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, Lifeline, and A Dark Room.
Download or read book Full Credit to the Boys written by Mel Hoffman and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mel fell in love with Ryan 'Hoff' Hoffman, a dedicated young player with the NRL's Melbourne Storm, she had no idea what she was getting into. But she soon learned that marrying a professional sportsman means marrying a whole team of players, their managers, fans, wives and girlfriends. She also learned that the rules of the game extended far beyond the field, and as part of the rugby league 'family', she would be expected to fall into line.
Download or read book MYP Personal Project Process Journals written by Dylan Garcia and published by Dylan Garcia. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Download and read the process during the develop of my Personal Project. Note: This book was originally made with iBooks Author so excuse the formatting in the pdf as one page is supposed to be two pages.
Download or read book Lighter Side to Darkness written by EnRe San and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the culture, the mystic who swallowed the moon made a tale out of it all. For some people, life is no fun without a trance. They need something pretty to keep them stuck in inspiration, but they fatally miss the point. As sadness goes, its on the top-five list, but no one cares. Theres a way to use and work with God and make insanity your tool, but the burden of incite has too many burning traits. To have things like that requires sharp eyes, a terrible crisis, and very much forgettable ancestors. The Lighter Side to Darkness is a colorful tale from the yesteryears of EnRe San. It was a time where my only wish was to keep the sky blue, but going gray meant harmony, and attacking the soul meant I didnt have to go for blood. Theres an inherent strength in pain thats best known when you let chaos take advantage of you, so I went for blood too. You can be raped, be betrayed, or be in the middle of a worldly possession; if its so good that you forgot that you can still kick everyones ass, then I call that a reason to learn. Because just like swallowing the moon, you officially have a friend in mastering your emotions.
Download or read book A Selfie with Words written by Vijay Anand Raju and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into 'A Selfie with Words,' a compilation of short essays through which the author embarks on a quest for deeper understanding of the inner self and the outer world. The essays cover a range of topics including spirituality, leadership, politics, technology, innovation and society. These essays emerged from the author’s unique work experiences that includes a social venture to help teen mothers in Mexico, building the Global Shapers Community in 450 cities, launching an innovative health care business model in India, leading a Disney style 3D animation series for Cartoon Network to name a few along with some unique travel experiences including visiting the lowest point on earth, climbing Mt. Fuji, embarking on a risky MBA journey, meeting influential leaders, traveling to 43 countries and living in India, Sri Lanka, US, Japan and Switzerland. Be prepared, for within these leaves, you'll embark on a voyage along with the curious mind of the author to experience the power of questions and the temporary nature of our answers. These essays explore questions that challenge an assumption or a status quo, reframe some of our commonly held assumptions, offer new interpretations, ideas and perspectives. Through gentle queries, woven with the threads of lived experience, this book shares a tapestry of introspection, urging the reader to revisit their own certainties.
Download or read book Losers written by Michael Lewis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mighty pen and set out on the 1996 campaign trail. As he follows the men who aspire to the Oval Office, Lewis discovers an absurd mix of bravery and backpedaling, heroic possibility and mealy-mouthed sound bytes, and a process so ridiculous and unsavory that it leaves him wondering if everyone involved—from the journalists to the candidates to the people who voted—isn't ultimately a loser. The contenders: Pat Buchanan: becomes the first politician ever to choose a black hat over a white one. Phil Gramm: spends twenty million dollars to convince voters of his fiscal responsibility. John McCain: makes the fatal mistake of actually speaking his mind. Alan Keyes: checks out of a New Hampshire hotel and tells the manager another candidate will be paying his bill. Steve Forbes: refuses to answer questions about his father's motorcycles. Bob Dole: marches through the campaign without ever seeming to care. Losers is a wickedly funny, unflinching look at how America really goes about choosing a President.
Download or read book Releasing HTML5 Games for Windows 8 written by Jesse Freeman and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windows 8 presents an incredible opportunity for distributing and monetizing HTML5 games, and this guide shows how you can profit from it. You’ll learn everything you need to know about porting your original web-based JavaScript game to the new "touch-first" version of Windows, as well as several options for selling your game in Windows Store. Windows 8 is a big leap forward for developers because it treats HTML5 as a first-class citizen, alongside C# and C++. Interactive development expert Jesse Freeman explains how Windows 8 works, gets you started with Visual Studio Express (it’s free!), and uses a case study to show you how to port an HTML5 game with ease. Learn which games and JavaScript libraries work best on Windows 8 Adjust artwork for different screen resolutions and Windows 8 features Accommodate mouse, keyboard, touch, and other game controls Optimize your game to run well on any Windows 8 device Understand the steps for publishing your game to Windows Store Explore fixed price, trial mode, ad support, and in-app purchase options Use a web-first workflow to ensure your game runs on many other platforms
Download or read book Honor Bright written by Meredith Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playthrough Poetics written by Milena Droumeva and published by Amherst College Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experiential media of video games into text for close reading. By shifting focus toward the immersiveness of video games, Playthrough Poetics makes the case for gameplay as a necessary, alternate method. Contributors to this volume engage widely with the activity of play through autoethnographies, meta-analyses of self-broadcasting, new procedural methods like gamespace soundwalking, as well as the affective aspects of games research. In doing so, they model new possibilities for academic players and gamers alike. Rigorous scholarship meets cultural practice in this innovative, multi-modal edited collection that includes video essays and offers transcripts of the playthroughs themselves. Readers (and viewers) will come away with a toolkit of models, case studies, and conceptual frameworks for analyzing video games through gameplay. This volume is a fresh return to the joy of play: the poetics of games as contemporary forms of storytelling and interactivity. With contributions from Ashlee Bird, Brandon Blackburn, Milena Droumeva, Kishonna Gray, Robyn Hope, Ben Scholl, Maria Sommers, Ashlyn Sparrow, Christine Tran, and Aaron Trammell.
Download or read book Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice written by Andy Lock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapy is inherently discursive, yet, only recently, has the role that discourse plays in therapy been recognized as a focus in itself for analysis and intervention. Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents a overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their philosophical underpinnings.
Download or read book Speedrunning written by David Snyder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 30 years after its 1985 release on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Mario Bros. continues to be one of the best-selling video games of all time. For many, completing the classic side-scrolling platformer remains challenging enough to provide many hours of entertainment. In late 2016 an American gamer known online as "darbian" completed the game in record time, rescuing Princess Peach in 4 minutes, 56 seconds. darbian practices speedrunning, a method of play in which quick reflexes and intimate familiarity with games are used to complete them in the fastest possible time. Through 10 interviews with darbian and other elite speedrunners, this book explores the history and techniques of this intense and competitive type of gaming.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound written by William Gibbons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together dozens of leading scholars from across the world to address topics from pinball to the latest in virtual reality, The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound is the most comprehensive and multifaceted single-volume source in the rapidly expanding field of game audio research.
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Download or read book Breathe Me In written by Erin McCarthy and published by Erin McCarthy. This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never wanted… Anya Strange was adopted from Russia as a child, only to be rejected a year later, deemed ‘difficult.’ After a lifetime of bouncing from foster home to foster home Anya is living in the East Village and scraping by playing gigs in small clubs, and facing eviction. She’ll do whatever it takes to keep a roof over the head of herself and her one year old son. Including making nice with the twin she doesn’t remember and stealing baby food from a grocery store. Always needed… Kane Dermott doesn’t want to bust the pierced and sexy woman stealing at the grocery store, but neither does he want to help her or believe her sob story. Being a cop and the oldest of six siblings with a single mom, he’s always the one doing the right thing. The one everyone depends on. The good guy. For once he just wants to have some fun with the hot girl, and Anya is more than willing to make him forget her petty theft in the most delicious way possible. But it turns out the sob story is real and in the murky world of black market babies, Anya and her son are in danger, and Kane can’t walk away from the mysterious and broken woman he has come to love. But neither can he trust her. When lies are truth and truths are lies, sometimes only love is the answer…
Download or read book Raven written by Jessi Bee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raven is sassy, independent and not looking for love. She enjoys doing spoken word, hanging out with her girls and playing attractive men. She has no intentions of falling in love. That is, until she meets Malik. Malik is handsome, successful and arrogant. He gets caught cheating on his girlfriend Larissa and in attempts to cheer him up Jamonte takes him to the Air Lounge where he meets Raven. When these two merge their worlds together, they'll be games played, feelings hurt and these two will be confused as to where they stand with each other. Will Raven let her guard down and allow Malik to love her? Will Malik get tired of Raven's insecurities and keep it moving? Follow these two on their journey to trying to find love and make it last.
