Digital Zombies Undead Stories

Author : Lawrence May
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501363535

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Digital Zombies, Undead Stories by Lawrence May Pdf

Through analysis of three case study videogames – Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft – and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms. Narrative emergence is addressed as a powerful form of player experience in multiplayer games, one which makes individual games' boundaries and meanings fluid and negotiable by players. The phenomenon is also shown to be recursive in nature, shaping individual and collective understandings of videogame texts over time. Digital Zombies, Undead Stories focuses on games featuring zombies as central antagonists. The recurrent figure of the videogame zombie, which mediates between chaos and rule-driven predictability, serves as both metaphor and mascot for narrative emergence. This book argues that in the zombie genre, emergent experiences are at the heart of narrative experiences for players, and more broadly demonstrates the potential for the phenomenon to be understood as a fundamental part of everyday play experiences across genres.

Author : Lawrence May
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501363528

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Digital Zombies, Undead Stories by Lawrence May Pdf

Through analysis of three case study videogames – Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft – and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms. Narrative emergence is addressed as a powerful form of player experience in multiplayer games, one which makes individual games' boundaries and meanings fluid and negotiable by players. The phenomenon is also shown to be recursive in nature, shaping individual and collective understandings of videogame texts over time. Digital Zombies, Undead Stories focuses on games featuring zombies as central antagonists. The recurrent figure of the videogame zombie, which mediates between chaos and rule-driven predictability, serves as both metaphor and mascot for narrative emergence. This book argues that in the zombie genre, emergent experiences are at the heart of narrative experiences for players, and more broadly demonstrates the potential for the phenomenon to be understood as a fundamental part of everyday play experiences across genres.

Author : Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512457698

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Zombie Makers by Rebecca L. Johnson Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Are zombies real? As far as we know, dead people do not come back to life and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers—including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp—and their victims.

Author : Jeff Child
Publisher : Self Publisher
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788829599769

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Diary of a Wimpy Zombie by Jeff Child Pdf

A somewhat scary zombie story with a happy ending! They remember how it all started… how the experiment went wrong. Perhaps the answer lies at the school they came from. Sander and Sally find themselves fighting back hordes of zombies and wonder if it is ever going to stop. They should one zombie after another. But then they meet a zombie who is different from the rest. Will this particular zombie lead them to the solution of the apocalypse? Read the book and find out!

Author : David Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798603228143

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Digital Zombies by David Mather Pdf

The world has become addicted to Smartphones and Tablets, with complex algorithms hooking people into social media dependency. Tapping and swiping in virtual worlds for virtual rewards while ignoring the people and world around them.In the last twenty years there has been a massive jump in anxiety and depression, in the adults and worryingly children, with pills being dished out like sweets.An insider has been sending messages to a covert group, warning them about the new technology. They must take action to prevent the mind control, leaving Humanity with their freewill, reasoning and logic. What or who is behind this, and more importantly why do they need the human race to be controlled, endlessly scrolling trying to get the next fix of dopamine when they get a 'like' or their phone 'pings'?The plan ready to hatch, to take over the planet using mind control, creating a world of Digital Zombies.

Author : Shannon Knudsen
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512479140

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I'm Undead and Hungry! by Shannon Knudsen Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Meet Roscoe. He's a zombie! Roscoe came back from the dead. He likes to snack on brains. But don't be scared. Roscoe's not real. He's one of the monsters you meet in stories. He just wants to tell you about zombies. Find out what turns people into zombies. Learn about different kinds of zombies around the world. And discover where zombie stories come from. You’ll have a spooky time with this monster buddy!

Author : Timothy Verstynen,Bradley Voytek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691173153

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Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? by Timothy Verstynen,Bradley Voytek Pdf

A look at the true nature of the zombie brain Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the walking nightmares of our deepest fears. What do these characteristic behaviors reveal about the inner workings of the zombie mind? Could we diagnose zombism as a neurological condition by studying their behavior? In Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?, neuroscientists and zombie enthusiasts Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek apply their neuro-know-how to dissect the puzzle of what has happened to the zombie brain to make the undead act differently than their human prey. Combining tongue-in-cheek analysis with modern neuroscientific principles, Verstynen and Voytek show how zombism can be understood in terms of current knowledge regarding how the brain works. In each chapter, the authors draw on zombie popular culture and identify a characteristic zombie behavior that can be explained using neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and brain-behavior relationships. Through this exploration they shed light on fundamental neuroscientific questions such as: How does the brain function during sleeping and waking? What neural systems control movement? What is the nature of sensory perception? Walking an ingenious line between seriousness and satire, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? leverages the popularity of zombie culture in order to give readers a solid foundation in neuroscience.

Author : Christopher De La Rosa,Ivan Van Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 0615378323

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Outbreak Undead by Christopher De La Rosa,Ivan Van Norman Pdf

"Outbreak: Undead is a Zombie Survival Simulation RPG that is not only fun, but an essential step in surviving the Undead. This book provides the most dramatic, effective, and above all realistic means in which to (safely) simulate the events of a zombie uprising and try your chances at survival!"--Cover.

Author : Kevin Ec Curdgel
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798777988065

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Tales of the Undead by Kevin Ec Curdgel Pdf

Imagine a world where the dead roam. A world where zombie alligators lurk in Florida swamps and swimming isn't a good idea. Would you remember the first zombie you saw? The first one you killed? In this collection of over 20 tales, take a journey to the darkest and weirdest places in a zombie infested post-apocalyptic world. Prepare for Tales of the Undead

Author : Xavier Braze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990706397

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Zombies in La! by Xavier Braze Pdf

Author : Kirsty McKay
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545473460

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Undead by Kirsty McKay Pdf

Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby.The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back. But they've changed. And not in a good way. Straight up, they're zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round and round freakin' fast, because that's the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates' next meal. It's kill or be killed in these hunger games, heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late.Combining the chill of THE SHINING, the thrill ride of SPEED, the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, and the angst of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Kirsty McKay's UNDEAD is a bloody mad mash-up, a school-trip splatter-fest, a funny, gory, frighteningly good debut!

Author : David Kendall
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0762433981

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The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics by David Kendall Pdf

These zombies just won’t die. Here is the first ever popular collection of zombie comics and short graphic stories. Full of spooky and well-crafted tales from beyond the grave, this collection will appeal to readers of graphic novels, comic books, and followers of the undead. With stories from Vincent Locke, Steve Niles, Hideshi Hino, Joe Lansdale, and many others, this collection will be sure to frighten and entertain even the most undead of readers.

Author : Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374712532

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The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon Pdf

The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancée of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love. Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain. Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

Author : Rusty Fischer
Publisher : Looking Glass Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Bedtime
ISBN : 1624020232

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The Littlest Zombie's Story by Rusty Fischer Pdf

Told in rhyming text, little Chester the zombie can not sleep, disobeys his mother and sneaks out of his crypt for a snack.

Author : Sarah Juliet Lauro
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452955520

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Zombie Theory by Sarah Juliet Lauro Pdf

Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie’s ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties—ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism—has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship. Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other. Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tayla Nyong’o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, U of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.