Games User Research, Drachen, Anders; Nacke, Lennart; Mirza-Babaei, Pej
Автор: Sylvester Tynan Название: Designing Games ISBN: 1449337937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781449337933 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How do video games resonate with players to become worldwide hits? This practical book shows you how the right combination of story elements, psychology, and game theory can generate emotionally charged experiences that take players beyond mindless entertainment.
Автор: Millington, Ian, Funge, John Название: Artificial Intelligence for Games ISBN: 0123747317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780123747310 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 10870.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers, yet the commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI. In this book, Ian Millington brings extensive professional experience to the problem of improving the quality of AI in games. He describes numerous examples from real games and explores the underlying ideas through detailed case studies. He goes further to introduce many techniques little used by developers today. The book's associated web site contains a library of C++ source code and demonstration programs, and a complete commercial source code library of AI algorithms and techniques.<br><br>"Artificial Intelligence for Games - 2nd edition" will be highly useful to academics teaching courses on game AI, in that it includes exercises with each chapter. It will also include new and expanded coverage of the following: AI-oriented gameplay; Behavior driven AI; Casual games (puzzle games). <br><br>* The first comprehensive, professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games written by an engineer with extensive industry experience.<br>* Walks through the entire development process from beginning to end.<br>* Includes examples from over 100 real games, 10 in-depth case studies, and web site with sample code.
Автор: Wolf Mark J. P. Название: Video Games Around the World ISBN: 0262527162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262527163 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 7618.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.
Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and culture across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offering distinctively firsthand perspectives. Some of these national histories appear for the first time in English, and some for the first time in any language.
Readers will learn, for example, about the rapid growth of mobile games in Africa; how a meat-packing company held the rights to import the Atari VCS 2600 into Mexico; and how the Indonesian MMORPG Nusantara Online reflects that country's cultural history and folklore. Every country or region's unique conditions provide the context that shapes its national industry; for example, the long history of computer science in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, the problems of piracy in China, the PC Bangs of South Korea, or the Dutch industry's emphasis on serious games. As these essays demonstrate, local innovation and diversification thrive alongside productions and corporations with global aspirations.
Africa - Arab World - Argentina - Australia - Austria - Brazil - Canada - China - Colombia - Czech Republic - Finland - France - Germany - Hong Kong - Hungary - India - Indonesia - Iran - Ireland - Italy - Japan - Mexico - The Netherlands - New Zealand - Peru - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Scandinavia - Singapore - South Korea - Spain - Switzerland - Thailand - Turkey - United Kingdom - United States of America - Uruguay - Venezuela
Автор: Rusch Doris C. Название: Making Deep Games ISBN: 1138812137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138812130 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Like movies, television, and other preceding forms of media, video games are undergoing a dynamic shift in its content and perception. While the medium can still be considered in its infancy, the mark of true artistry and conceptual depth is detectable in the evolving styles, various genres and game themes. Doris C. Rusch's, Making Deep Games, combines this insight along with the discussion of the expressive nature of games, various case studies, and hands-on design exercises. This book offers a perspective into how to make games that tackle the whole bandwidth of the human experience; games that teach us something about ourselves, enable thought-provoking, emotionally rich experiences and promote personal and social change. Grounded in cognitive linguistics, game studies and the reflective practice of game design, Making Deep Games explores systematic approaches for how to approach complex abstract concepts, inner processes, and emotions through the specific means of the medium. It aims to shed light on how to make the multifaceted aspects of the human condition tangible through gameplay experiences.
Автор: Noor Shaker; Julian Togelius; Mark J. Nelson Название: Procedural Content Generation in Games ISBN: 3319427148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319427140 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods, search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods, and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation. The authors are active academic researchers and game developers, and the book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of courses on games and creativity; game developers who want to learn new methods for content generation; and researchers in related areas of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence.
Автор: Isbister Katherine Название: How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design ISBN: 0262034263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262034265 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2189.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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This is a renaissance moment for video games -- in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In " How Games Move Us," Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. Games, Isbister shows us, can actually play a powerful role in creating empathy and other strong, positive emotional experiences; they reveal these qualities over time, through the act of playing. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence emotion and social connection, with examples -- drawn from popular, indie, and art games -- that unpack the gamer's experience.
Isbister describes choice and flow, two qualities that distinguish games from other media, and explains how game developers build upon these qualities using avatars, non-player characters, and character customization, in both solo and social play. She shows how designers use physical movement to enhance players' emotional experience, and examines long-distance networked play. She illustrates the use of these design methods with examples that range from Sony's "Little Big Planet" to the much-praised indie game "Journey "to art games like Brenda Romero's "Train."
Isbister's analysis shows us a new way to think about games, helping us appreciate them as an innovative and powerful medium for doing what film, literature, and other creative media do: helping us to understand ourselves and what it means to be human.
Автор: Silber Название: Pixel Art for Game Developers ISBN: 1482252309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781482252309 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Is the art for your video game taking too long to create? Learning to create Pixel Art may be the answer to your development troubles. Uncover the secrets to creating stunning graphics with Pixel Art for Game Developers. The premier how-to book on Pixel Art and Pixel Art software, it focuses on the universal principles of the craft. The book provides an introduction to Pixel Art, its utility, foundational elements, and concepts such as light and shadow. It offers tutorials on creating animations and serves as a functional guide for the most common methodology in 2D game development.
Gamers love the retro feel of Pixel Art, and lucky for you it is easy to create. You'll love the tiny file sizes that will reduce compile times and help your game run faster. Providing you with the skills to create the characters and environments needed for 2D games, this book will help you:
Create tilesets to build game environments
Understand light and shadow
Work efficiently with pixels
Use atmospheric and linear perspective
Create professional-quality Pixel Art
This book has chapters dedicated to theory as well as step-by-step tutorials, both of which describe the process explicitly. Whether you are an artist, programmer, indie developer, or certified public accountant, after reading this book, you'll understand the steps necessary to create production-quality Pixel Art graphics.
Praise for the Book: Pixel Art and Pixel Art games are very popular and the technique is a great way for independent creators to create very good-looking games with limited resources. It's frankly shocking that there hasn't been a resource like this before ... a very timely book. --Chris Totten, George Mason University, Washington, DC, USA
Автор: Costikyan Greg Название: Uncertainty in Games ISBN: 0262018969 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262018968 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 1611.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bernhaupt Regina Название: Game User Experience Evaluation ISBN: 3319159844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319159843 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Evaluating interactive systems for their user experience (UX) is a standard approach in industry and research today. This book explores the areas of game design and development and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as ways to understand the various contributing aspects of the overall gaming experience. Fully updated, extended and revised this book is based upon the original publication Evaluating User Experience in Games, and provides updated methods and approaches ranging from user- orientated methods to game specific approaches.
New and emerging methods and areas explored include physiologically- orientated UX evaluation, user behaviour, telemetry based methods and social play as effective evaluation techniques for gaming design and evolving user-experience. Game User Experience Evaluation allows researchers, PhD students as well as game designers and developers to get an overview on available methods for all stages of the development life cycle.
Автор: Schell Название: The Art of Game Design ISBN: 1466598646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781466598645 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner: Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design Demonstrates how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell, the former chair of the International Game Developers Association and award-winning designer of Disney online games The Art of Game Design, Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.
Автор: Dunlop Название: Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games ISBN: 0415812291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415812290 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Learn how to design an efficient, flexible pipeline to create a successful product; whether you are producing a cutting-edge video game or an animated film, a solid pipeline will arm you against lost time and wasted money.
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