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Author : Daniel H. Wilson,John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101873304

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Press Start to Play by Daniel H. Wilson,John Joseph Adams Pdf

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be—and what they can become—in smart and singular ways. With a foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One, Press Start to Play includes work from: Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, S.R. Mastrantone, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Django Wexler, Nicole Feldringer, Chris Avellone, David Barr Kirtley,T.C. Boyle, Marc Laidlaw, Robin Wasserman, Micky Neilson, Cory Doctorow, Jessica Barber, Chris Kluwe, Marguerite K. Bennett, Rhianna Pratchett, Austin Grossman, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Andy Weir, and Hugh Howey. Your inventory includes keys, a cell phone, and a wallet. What would you like to do?

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781839949197

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Press Start! Game On, Super Rabbit Boy! by Thomas Flintham Pdf

For 5+ kids who love video games but aren't allowed to play as often as they'd like... Sunny's favourite game is Super Rabbit Boy and he loves to pit his skills against King Viking who hates fun and happiness and wants to steal Singing Dog and bring sadness to Animal Town FOR EVER! Can Sunny help Super Rabbit Boy get to Level 6 and rescue Singing Dog and restore joy to Animal Town? Only if he defeats the Robot Army, dodges the Robo-Crabs and Lakes of Lava before battling King Viking himself! Has Sunny got the skills? Has Super Rabbit Boy eaten enough super magical carrots (SPOILER: origin story)? You'll have to read and find out... The first in a full-colour series of graphic novels about - and for - kids who love gaming! Join Sunny as he and Super Rabbit Boy take on the world, one move at a time!

Author : Daniel H. Wilson,John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101873311

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Press Start to Play by Daniel H. Wilson,John Joseph Adams Pdf

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be—and what they can become—in smart and singular ways. With a foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One, Press Start to Play includes work from: Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, S.R. Mastrantone, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Django Wexler, Nicole Feldringer, Chris Avellone, David Barr Kirtley,T.C. Boyle, Marc Laidlaw, Robin Wasserman, Micky Neilson, Cory Doctorow, Jessica Barber, Chris Kluwe, Marguerite K. Bennett, Rhianna Pratchett, Austin Grossman, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Andy Weir, and Hugh Howey. Your inventory includes keys, a cell phone, and a wallet. What would you like to do?

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338239867

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Super Rabbit All-Stars!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #8) by Thomas Flintham Pdf

Super Rabbit Boy is competing in the All-Star Games Tournament! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!It's the All-Star Games Tournament! Heroes and villains far and wide have come to play. Hero Super Rabbit Boy wants to be the top player, but with old enemies, new friends, and lots of games to play, it won't be easy. Which all-star will be the winner? Get ready for a star-studded, action-packed adventure!

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Press Start!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338239848

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Super Rabbit All-Stars!: a Branches Book (Press Start! #8) by Thomas Flintham Pdf

It is time for the All-Star games, and Super Rabbit Boy wants to be crowned the Ultimate All-Star Champion, but with so many contestants, including the evil King Viking, he will need help from Sunny and his video game console to claim his prize.

Author : Rachel Kowert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030327705

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Video Games and Well-being by Rachel Kowert Pdf

This book examines how video game mechanics and narratives can teach players skills associated with increased psychological well-being. It integrates research from psychology, education, ludology, media studies, and communication science to demonstrate how game play can teach skills that have long been associated with increased happiness and prolonged life satisfaction, including flexible thinking, openness to experience, self-care, a growth mindset, solution-focused thinking, mindfulness, persistence, self-discovery and resilience. The chapters in this volume are written by leading voices in the field of game studies, including researchers from academia, the video gaming industry, and mental health practitioners paving the way in the field of “geek therapy.” This book will advance our understanding of the potential of video games to increase our psychological well-being by helping to mitigate depression, anxiety, and stress and foster persistence, self-care, and resilience.

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338569049

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Super Cheat Codes and Secret Modes!: A Branches Book (Press Start #11) by Thomas Flintham Pdf

Super Rabbit Boy has to fight through gaming gaffs and glitches in the latest installment of this USA Today bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!When Sunny finds a list of cheat codes for his game, Animal Land gets turned topsy-turvy! With new weird and wonderful powers and effects, Super Rabbit Boy finds his latest adventure filled with easy modes, hard modes, and secret levels. It's more fun than ever... until the game starts to glitch! Can Super Rabbit Boy make his way through the madness and still save the day?Thomas Flintham's full-color art on every page brings energy and fun to this action-packed series!

Author : Daniel Griffin,Albert van der Meer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472970497

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Press Start by Daniel Griffin,Albert van der Meer Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards Do you know someone obsessed with a mobile game like Candy Crush? Have you ever felt a rush when you completed a task... and perhaps another when you crossed it off your to-do list? Or maybe you have that one running-obsessed friend who has to log everything on their fitness app? The fact is, these obsessions and 'highs' affect all of us, and they can be powerful drivers in terms of how we behave. In an increasingly commoditized world, marketers are always looking for new ways to influence or motivate us to be better engaged with their products, services, and brands. This is marketing gamification: the practice of taking the motivational elements of games (like challenges, achievements and teams) and applying them intelligently in real-life situations to improve engagement and performance. With many success stories from the likes of LinkedIn, Delta Airlines, Starbucks, and Duolingo, marketing gamification is already a well-established practice, but many businesses are wary of jumping in without a guide - especially as there have been so many high-profile failures. Written specifically for marketing professionals, Press Start explores the benefits and uses of gamification, and ties together motivational psychology and case studies with popular game mechanics and design principles. More importantly, the book will provide readers with a step-by-step guide for successfully designing their own marketing gamification solutions.

Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9635239289

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Anda's Game by Cory Doctorow Pdf

Author : Brendan Keogh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780262345446

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A Play of Bodies by Brendan Keogh Pdf

An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other. Our bodies engage with videogames in complex and fascinating ways. Through an entanglement of eyes-on-screens, ears-at-speakers, and muscles-against-interfaces, we experience games with our senses. But, as Brendan Keogh argues in A Play of Bodies, this corporal engagement goes both ways; as we touch the videogame, it touches back, augmenting the very senses with which we perceive. Keogh investigates this merging of actual and virtual bodies and worlds, asking how our embodied sense of perception constitutes, and becomes constituted by, the phenomenon of videogame play. In short, how do we perceive videogames? Keogh works toward formulating a phenomenology of videogame experience, focusing on what happens in the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame, and anchoring his analysis in an eclectic series of games that range from mainstream to niche titles. Considering smartphone videogames, he proposes a notion of co-attentiveness to understand how players can feel present in a virtual world without forgetting that they are touching a screen in the actual world. He discusses the somatic basis of videogame play, whether games involve vigorous physical movement or quietly sitting on a couch with a controller; the sometimes overlooked visual and audible pleasures of videogame experience; and modes of temporality represented by character death, failure, and repetition. Finally, he considers two metaphorical characters: the “hacker,” representing the hegemonic, masculine gamers concerned with control and configuration; and the “cyborg,” less concerned with control than with embodiment and incorporation.

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9386313464

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Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy by Thomas Flintham Pdf

It's always GAME ON with Super Rabbit Boy! Animal Town is in trouble. Meanie King Viking and his Robot Army are spreading No Fun across the land. Only Super Rabbit Boy can save the day. But first he must make it past sand traps, lava, and lots and lots of robots. Will Super Rabbit boy reach the final level, or will it be GAME OVER?

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338568981

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Super Rabbit Boy’s Time Jump!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #9) by Thomas Flintham Pdf

Super Rabbit Boy must travel back in time to stop King Viking! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!King Viking has built a Super Mega Robot Time Machine! Now he has gone back in time to team up with his younger self, Prince Viking. Together, they want to stop Baby Rabbit Boy from ever finding the magical carrot power-up that turned him into Super Rabbit Boy. Super Rabbit Boy must go on a quest through time to stop King Viking from stealing his powers! Will he be on time to save the day?

Author : Nina Huntemann
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781479827985

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How to Play Video Games by Nina Huntemann Pdf

Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building? From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question—what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large? How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338569018

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Super Rabbit Boy’s Team-Up Trouble!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #10) by Thomas Flintham Pdf

Super Rabbit Boy and Mega Mole Girl team up to stop King Viking in the latest installment of this USA Today bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!King Viking, his robot army, and Miss Business are working together to create a perfect storm of trouble in Underland. It's up to Super Rabbit Boy and Mega Mole Girl to team up and save the day. But these two heroes are used to flying solo... Will they be able to save the day? Or will their squabbles spell disaster for Underland?Thomas Flintham's full-color art on every page brings energy and fun to this action-packed series!

Author : Thomas Flintham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536451169

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The Super Side-Quest Test! by Thomas Flintham Pdf

King Viking has a new giant robot to help him take over the Animal Town. Super Rabbit Boy must stop him, but he needs a secret item. And to get the item, he has to defeat a dragon, escape a dungeon, and avoid lots and lots of robots. Can Super Rabbit