Game programming gems 5
Get a head start in your game development career with this all-genre guide for absolute beginners. Whether you're into action games, role-playing games, or interactive fiction, we've got you covered. Mostly Codeless Game Development empowers new developers with little or no prev…
Serious games: mechanisms and effects
Serious games: mechanisms and effects
by Cody, Michael J., Vorderer, Peter, Ritterfeld, Ute
Serious games: mechanisms and effects
by Cody, Michael J., Vorderer, Peter, Ritterfeld, Ute
The central purpose of this book is to examine critically the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the "real world."
Gameplay mode: war, simulation, and technoculture
"From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. To understand their place in contemporary cul…