This is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to learning the basic drawing skills needed to successfully create video game art. Drawing Basics for Video Game Art demonstrates how fine art principles like drawing skills, anatomy, values and lighting and colour all apply to the creatio…
"A ... look at how games can help us learn, create, and innovate ... Drawing on the latest brain science on attention and engagement plus his own firsthand reporting, Penenberg shows how organizations like Google, Microsoft, hospitals, and the military have used game design in b…
This title provides important knowledge behind bread-and-butter game physics, helping you leverage exciting interaction gadgets such as accelerometers, touch screens, GPS receivers, pressure sensors, and optical tracking devices.
Games will be games -- Immersion -- The player involvement model -- Kinaesthetic involvement -- Spatial involvement -- Shared involvement -- Narrative involvement -- Affective involvement -- Ludic involvement -- Incorporation.
"Storytelling for Virtual Reality serves as a bridge between students of new media and professionals working between the emerging world of VR technology and the art form of classical storytelling. Rather than examining purely the technical, the text focuses on the narrative and …
"Playing the Past brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture."--Back cover.
What if life is a game? Are you winning? Have you even decided what 'winning' is? Game design could be defined in many ways, but here the term is used to denote the practice of creating choices. Designing a game, in this sense, involves crafting limits, rewards, incentives, and…
Games user research
"games user research is the definitive guide to methods and practices for games user professionals, researchers and students seeking additional expertise or starting advice in the game development industry. It is the go-to volume for everyone working with games, with an emphasis…
"Learning professionals are finding success applying game-based sensibilities to the development of instruction. This is the first book to show how to design online instruction that leverages the best elements of online games to increase learning, retention, and application. It …
Presents over 100 sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game's design. Written by one of the world's top game designers, this book describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design, demonstrating how tactics used in board, card, and athletic ga…
Presents over 100 sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game's design. Written by one of the world's top game designers, this book describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design, demonstrating how tactics used in board, card, and athletic ga…
An exploration of the relationship between games and art that examines the ways that both gamemakers and artists create game-based artworks.