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  • Uncertainty in Games

    by Greg Costikyan ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    How uncertainty in games—from D&D and Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors—engages players and shapes play experiences.In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tabletop

    Analog Game Design

    Edited by Greg Costikyan, Drew Davidson ...
    In this volume, people of diverse backgrounds — tabletop game designers, digital game designers, and game studies academics — talk about tabletop games, game culture, and the intersection of games with learning, theater, and other forms. Even as the digital revolution has progressed apace, tabletop games — board and card, roleplaying and miniatures — have grown and attracted many new fans. Indeed, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tabletop: Analog Game Design

    by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson et al ...
    In this volume people of diverse backgrounds talk about tabletop games game culture and the intersection of games with learning theater and other forms. Some have chosen to write about their design process others about games they admire others about the culture of tabletop games and their fans. The results are various and individual but all cast some light on what is a multivarious and fascinating ... Read more

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    A NATIONAL BESTSELLERA programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for ... Read more

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  • Rules of Play

    Game Design Fundamentals

    by Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Everything Bad is Good for You

    How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

    by Steven Johnson ...
    **Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification cultureFrom the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted**In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop ... Read more

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  • What to Think About Machines That Think

    Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 19 - Edge Question Series
    Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Jerry Kaplan ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the ... Read more

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  • Designing Games

    A Guide to Engineering Experiences

    by Tynan Sylvester ...
    Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences - a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Rise of the Videogame Zinesters

    How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives,and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form

    by Anna Anthropy ...
    "Anna Anthropy is a key personality in the ongoing paradigm shift that is slowly changing the way videogames are understood, by creators and players, and by the wider culture."—Patrick Alexander, Eegra.com"Equal parts autobiography, ethnography, and how-to manual, this book concisely makes the case for the unique power of 'zinester' games."—Adam Parrish, NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program ... Read more

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  • Persuasive Games

    The Expressive Power of Videogames

    by Ian Bogost ...
    An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this ... Read more

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  • Writing Great Books for Young Adults

    Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Landing a Publishing Deal

    by Regina Brooks ...
    From a top young adult literary agent, the only guide on how to write for young adultsWith an 87 percent increase in the number of titles published in the last two years, the young adult market is one of the healthiest segments in the industry. Despite this, little has been written to help authors hone their craft to truly connect with this audience. Writing Great Books for Young Adults gives ... Read more

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