Braving Britannia

Author : Wes Locher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172185388X

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Braving Britannia by Wes Locher Pdf

Welcome to a digital world where anything is possible. Over the past two decades, millions of players have inhabited the virtual world of Britannia inside the Massively Multiplayer Online fantasy PC game, Ultima Online. Released in 1997 by developer Origin Systems and publisher Electronic Arts, Ultima Online is known as the grandfather of MMOs. Braving Britannia: Tales of Life, Love, and Adventure in Ultima Online collects interviews with 35 of the game's players, volunteers, and developers, revealing what they did, where they adventured, and how their lives were shaped, changed, and altered through experiences in Ultima Online's shared virtual world. In a fantasy world of limitless potential, the only thing players seem to enjoy more than playing the game is talking about it, and yet, the true stories behind the avatars have largely gone unpublished for the past twenty years. Until now.

Author : Wes Locher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798686243811

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Braving Britannia by Wes Locher Pdf

YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN ... OR CAN YOU? For more than 20 years, millions of players have lived, loved, and lost in the medieval fantasy world of Britannia within the video game Ultima Online. Originally released in 1997 by developer Origin Systems and publisher Electronic Arts, Ultima Online is widely considered to be the grandfather of Massively Multiplayer Online games. This second volume of the Braving Britannia series collects interviews with 30 more of the game's players as they share treasured memories of slaughtering the weak, protecting the innocent, founding successful roleplaying communities, meeting future spouses, bonding with family and friends, decorating expansive castles, or just causing trouble for everyone around them. Meanwhile, the author returns to Ultima Online for the first time in more than 15 years, hoping to discover whether the game is as special as he remembers it, or if his feelings are merely rooted in nostalgia. It's time to brave Britannia. Again.

Author : Weston Locher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557222636

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Musings on Minutiae by Weston Locher Pdf

Welcome to Weston Locher's Musings on Minutiae where the author offers up hilarious observations and insights on topics of great importance such as: Living in an urban apartment complex ( if I become an admitted pet owner, then I have to pay not only a several hundred dollar deposit to the apartment complex, but I'm pretty sure that they also reserve the right to harvest some of my bodily organs ), living with felines ( as I'm walking anywhere in my apartment. They scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I'm carrying piping hot coffee.), his childhood Memories (Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as 'too long.'), and much more. Chock full of humorous essays and personal anecdotes, Musings on Minutiae will keep you laughing for as long as you have a pulse.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795311253

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Pdf

This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Wes Locher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194576208X

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Unit 44 by Wes Locher Pdf

Area 51's storage unit has fallen into the wrong hands! Agents Gibson and Hatch forget to pay the rent on the facility's off-site storage unit, and the secret contents are sold to a couple of backwoods rednecks at a public auction. Now an alien invasion threatens planet Earth, and the agents will have to recover an item from the locker if they have any hope of stopping the extraterrestrial threat. A must-read for fans of the MEN IN BLACK series and a refreshing comic for anyone tired of dark and brooding heroes.

Author : William Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWDEYG

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Britannia's Pastorals by William Browne Pdf

Author : William BROWNE (of the Inner Temple.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020414507

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Britannia's Pastorals by William BROWNE (of the Inner Temple.) Pdf

Author : Matt Margini
Publisher : Boss Fight Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781940535241

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Red Dead Redemption by Matt Margini Pdf

First garnering both dismissal and intrigue as “Grand Theft Horse,” Rockstar Games’ 2010 action-adventure Red Dead Redemption was met on its release with critical acclaim for its open-world gameplay, its immersive environments, and its authenticity to the experience of the Wild West. Well, the simulated Wild West, that is. Boss Fight invites you to find out how the West was created, sold, and marketed to readers, moviegoers, and gamers as a space where “freedom” and “progress” duel for control of the dry, punishing frontier. Join writer and scholar Matt Margini as he journeys across the broad and expansive genre known as the Western, tracing the lineage of the familiar self-sufficient loner cowboy from prototypes like Buffalo Bill, through golden age icons like John Wayne and antiheroes like Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name,” up to Red Dead’s John Marston. With a critical reading of Red Dead’s narrative, setting, and gameplay through the lens of the rich and ever-shifting genre of the Western, Margini reveals its connections to a long legacy of mythmaking that has colored not only the stories we love to consume, but the histories we tell about America.

Author : Nicholas Tracy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773575851

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Britannia’s Palette by Nicholas Tracy Pdf

Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.

Author : Jessica Mulligan,Bridgette Patrovsky
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1592730000

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Developing Online Games by Jessica Mulligan,Bridgette Patrovsky Pdf

A soup-to-nuts overview of just what it takes to successfully design, develop and manage an online game. Learn from the top two online game developers through the real-world successes and mistakes not known to others. There are Case studies from 10+ industry leaders, including Raph Koster, J. Baron, R. Bartle, D. Schubert, A. Macris, and more! Covers all types of online games: Retail Hybrids, Persistent Worlds, and console games. Developing Online Games provides insight into designing, developing and managing online games that is available nowhere else. Online game programming guru Jessica Mulligan and seasoned exec Bridgette Patrovsky provide insights into the industry that will allow others entering this market to avoid the mistakes of the past. In addition to their own experiences, the authors provide interviews, insight and anecdotes from over twenty of the most well-known and experienced online game insiders. The book includes case studies of the successes and failures of today's most well-known online games. There is also a special section for senior executives on how to budget an online game and how to assemble the right development and management teams. The book ends with a look at the future of online gaming: not only online console gaming (Xbox Online, Playstation 2), but the emerging mobile device game market (cell phones, wireless, PDA).

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954686

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Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton Pdf

A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : CRIMEAN WAR SONG BOOK.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018609535

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The Illustrated Crimean War Song Book of the Allies, with a Brief Account of the War to the Fall of Sebastopol by CRIMEAN WAR SONG BOOK. Pdf

Author : Paulin Huggett PEARCE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026426386

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The Warrior's Swimming Book, and Ladies'Guide; Including the Poem on Waterloo, Queen Victoria's Reign, Death of the Duke of Wellington, Etc by Paulin Huggett PEARCE Pdf

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409064589

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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse Pdf

A Jeeves and Wooster novel Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so he thinks: others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. 'Stinker' Pinker. But there also is Sir Watkyn Bassett J.P., enemy of all the Woosters hold dear, to say nothing of his daughter Madeline and Roderick Spode, now raised to the peerage. And Major Brabazon Plank, the peppery explorer, who wants to lay Bertie out cold. Thank goodness for the intervention of Chief Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard - but is this gentleman all he seems?

Author : Raph Koster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996793747

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Postmortems by Raph Koster Pdf

Legendary game designer and author of the classic "A Theory of Fun for Game Design," Raph Koster is back with his first volume of selected essays. "Postmortems" collects new material and classic writings to provide a history of the development of virtual worlds, including behind-the-scenes glimpses of Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and more.