Author: Martin D. Wilde
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: games, computer, music, interactive, programming, audio
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-05-12
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0240519418
ISBN-13: 9780240519418
Martin Wilde’s cutting-edge exploration of the creative potential of game audio systems addresses the latest working methods of those involved in creating and programming immersive, interactive and non-linear audio for games. The book demonstrates how the game programmer can create an software system which enables the audio content provider (composer/sound designer) to maintain direct control over the composition and presentation of an interactive game soundtrack. This system (which is platform independent) is described step-by-step in Wilde’s approachable style with illuminating c
Author: Barbara Sher
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: games, learn, focus, kids, easy, fun, attention
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-07-18
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0471736546
ISBN-13: 9780471736547
If you want to focus children’s attention, you first have to capture their interest. Attention Games is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention. By sharing the upbeat, joyful activities in Attention Games, you can enhance your child’s intelligence, boost his confidence, increase his ability to concentrate on one thing for long periods, and show that you care. Developed by Barbara Sher—parent, teacher, play therapy specialist and pediatric occupational therapist—these activities are special
Authors:Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie,
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Keywords: games, vol, money, win, cash, limit
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2008-03-14
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1880685426
ISBN-13: 9781880685426
The first years of the poker boom were fueled by the interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Recently, however, players have been gravitating to another, even more complex form of hold em no-limit cash games. In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of starting hands to your stack size, how to recognize the increasing deception value of supposedly weaker hands as the stack sizes increase, and how to use the concept of pot commitment to your advantage as the size of the p
Authors:Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter,
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: games, electronic, mediations, video, capitalism, empire, global
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0816666113
ISBN-13: 9780816666119
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment.In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary m
Author: Walter B. Gibso
Publisher: Main Street Book
Keywords: games, basic, popular, variations, rules, hoyle, encyclopedia, card, modern
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 1974-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0385076800
ISBN-13: 9780385076807
"According to Hoyle" is the card-table synonym for Correct --a definitive guide to the correct playing of all known card games, with full descriptions and explanations of rules and techniques for each game and its variations.B & W photographs throughout.
Authors:Matthew Toone, Jodie Nida, Gary Locke,
Publisher: Mullerhaus Publishing
Keywords: games, children, groups, families, activities
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0979834554
ISBN-13: 9780979834554
Are you looking for Family Games, Group Games, or Children’s Games & Activities? Planning a Party, Date Night, Family Get-Together, or a Game Night? This book includes hundreds of fun game and activity ideas for people of all ages, groups of all sizes, and for any game category and setting! More importantly, the purpose of this book is to bring families together, create fun and meaningful memories, and provide wholesome entertainment for everyone! THIS BOOK INCLUDES: - 175 of the greatest family, group, & children’s games! - 50 variations to keep games interesting and fun each time
Authors:Edward Scannell, John Newstrom,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: games, trainer, resource, kit, plus, ready, trainers, play, complete, training
Number of Pages: 1016
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0070464324
ISBN-13: 9780070464322
The Games Trainers Play Series-now in a durable binder! Scannell and Newstrom’s bestselling Games Trainers Play series is now more rewarding than ever! We’ve taken the same collection of 300+ field-tested training games and activities, organized them in a single pop-open binder, and added an exclusive "Master Trainer’s Kit" that shows you how to plan, produce, and evaluate high-impact training sessions from start to finish. Result: The Complete Games Trainers Play packs virtually everything you need to conduct productive seminars and workshops-including games that help you bu
