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Gork, the Teenage Dragon

Author : Gabe Hudson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375713417
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Gork, the Teenage Dragon written by Gabe Hudson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TODAY Show Summer Pick “Hilarious. . . . Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” —Rolling Stone Gork is the nerdiest dragon at WarWings Military Academy. He has a giant heart and tiny horns. His nickname is Weak Sauce. Today before his high school graduation, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. The result is a rollicking quest for true love on the most madcap day ever known to a high school senior – dragon or otherwise. Along the way, Gork gets help from his best friend Fribby, a fierce female robot dragon who is brilliant, snarky, and totally obsessed with death; and Athenos II, his sentient spaceship who carries a shocking secret from his childhood. Ultimately, Gork will have to lock horns with his evil grandfather, Dr. Terrible. Can a quest for true love make a hero out of a dragon?

Demon Hunters RPG

Author : Cam Banks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944217242
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Demon Hunters RPG written by Cam Banks and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Video Games and Comedy

Author : Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030883388
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Video Games and Comedy written by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship between video games, humour, and comedy from many different angles. The first section of the book includes chapters that engage with theories of comedy and humour, adapting them to the specifics of the video game medium. The second section explores humour in the contexts, cultures, and communities that give rise to and spring up around video games, focusing on phenomena such as in-jokes, player self-reflexivity, and player/fan creativity. The third section offers case studies of individual games or game series, exploring the use of irony as well as sexual and racial humour in video games. Chapter “Emergence and Ephemerality of Humour During Live Coverage of Large-Scale eSports Events” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Flame Game

Author : R.J. Blain
Publisher : Pen & Page Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flame Game written by R.J. Blain and published by Pen & Page Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey and Quinn are back for one last action-filled adventure! A corrupt police chief is on the loose, and it falls to Bailey and Quinn to put an end to him before he finds some way to weaponize the spreading rabies virus, create yet another batch of potent gorgon dust, and otherwise wreck Bailey’s happily ever after. With a pair of orphaned gorgon whelps to care for, more animals she can shake a stick at, and her husband’s determination to make the world a perfect place for her, Bailey has her hands full. To protect everyone she loves, she must embrace her dubious role as the Calamity Queen and rain hell down on those who stand in her way. The Flame Game is on. Warning: this novel contains two fire-breathing unicorns on a napalm bender, action, adventure, chaos, mayhem, humor, and bodies. Proceed with caution.

Writing Game

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448137691
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Writing Game written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lodge’s first full-length play examines that curious fixture in the writing game where the amateurs meet the professionals – on a course in creative writing. Maude, author of nine bestsellers, and Simon, with one sensational success to his name, are veterans of this particular course: Leo, a campus-based American novelist astounded by the dilettante approach of the English, is the odd man out. The idea is to put the students under pressure, but in the converted barn that houses the tutors, professional and sexual tensions, past slights and current rivalries rapidly build to a fierce head of steam. Out of these pressures, David Lodge distils a sharply observed comedy of the problems and preoccupations of the writer as the professionals, striving to explain to enthusiastic beginners how to do it, are forced to confront an altogether trickier question: why on earth do they themselves write in the first place? Delicately probing, nimbly parodic, uncomfortably on target, Lodge’s incisive study of writers at work and at odds will bring the pleasure of recognition to all readers of fiction – and to most of those in the game.

101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups

Author : Leigh Anne Jasheway
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0897937031
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book 101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups written by Leigh Anne Jasheway and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning comedian Leigh Anne Jasheway has written 101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups specifically to make readers laugh. Laughter provides great health benefits, reducing tension and improving overall mood. Jasheway’s book connects readers of all ages with their inner five-year-old, providing 101 games and activities to increase their laugh quota and decrease the pressure in their stress-o-meters. With Jasheway’s help, readers can improve their emotional health and have a great time doing it. 101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups includes eight different sections, each geared toward a different genre of comedy. The first section concentrates on introductory games for getting to know fellow participants and familiarizing oneself with the basic rules of comedy. Later chapters introduce games geared toward a specific type of comedy. Each section includes numerous games, which are presented with a general description of the activity, the purpose behind it, a list of supplies (if necessary), helpful hints, and rule variations. Jasheway also provides a key to indicate the target ages for each activity, making it easier to pick the best games for the participating group. Jasheway’s book promises to provide fun times and lots of laughs for anyone that picks it up!

Game Writing

Author : Chris Bateman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501348973
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Game Writing written by Chris Bateman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased, yet traditional screenwriting techniques alone cannot equip writers for the unique challenges of writing stories where the actions and decisions of a diverse range of players are at the centre of every narrative experience. Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames was the first book to demystify the emerging field of game writing by identifying and explaining the skills required for creating videogame narrative. Through the insights and experiences of professional game writers, this revised edition captures a snapshot of the narrative skills employed in today's game industry and presents them as practical articles accompanied by exercises for developing the skills discussed. The book carefully explains the foundations of the craft of game writing, detailing all aspects of the process from the basics of narrative to guiding the player and the challenges of nonlinear storytelling. Throughout the book there is a strong emphasis on the skills developers and publishers expect game writers to know. This second edition brings the material up to date and adds four new chapters covering MMOs, script formats, narrative design for urban games, and new ways to think about videogame narrative as an art form. Suitable for both beginners and experienced writers, Game Writing is the essential guide to all the techniques of game writing. There's no better starting point for someone wishing to get into this exciting field, whether they are new game writers wishing to hone their skills, or screenwriters hoping to transfer their skills to the games industry.

Love, Game

Author : Brynn North
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Love, Game written by Brynn North and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined interior designer seeks hot basketball player to create perfect fake romance. This is the month that could make or break my career. I'm desperate to enter the biggest design competition of our city and win the big contract that comes with it but lack a standout property to tip the scales in my favor. Then, I need a date to a family wedding or be sentenced to pariah in front of my ex and his new girlfriend, who happens to be one of my biggest design competitors in the city. I think I just found the solution in gorgeous basketball superstar Rome Marius, who is in trouble with his coach and is in need of a little image rehab, just like his totally empty penthouse. I'll be his adoring sweet girlfriend to show his coach and team he's a grownup, and he'll let me redecorate the monstrosity he calls home and enter it in the contest. So what if I don't know a thing about sports? Faking it can't be that hard, right? I am absolutely able to ignore that he's hot, single, and incredibly sweet...I'm a professional... ♥ Love, Game is a closed-door romance, perfect for readers who love lots of sizzle and sass but no explicit content. ♥

The Game of Humor

Author : Charles R. Gruner
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780765806598
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Game of Humor written by Charles R. Gruner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune, stupidity, and moral or cultural defects, however faintly revealed in others and ourselves, seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting, such negative terms as superiority, aggression, hostility, ridicule, or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars, Thomas Hobbes's "superiority theory"--that humor arises from mischances, infirmities, and indecencies, where there is no wit at all--applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play, Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears. Gruner's proposed superiority theory of humor is all-encompassing. In "The Game of Humor, "he expands the scope of Hobbes's theory to include and explore the contest aspect of "good-natured" play. As such, the author believes all instances of humor can be examined as games, in terms of competition and keeping score--winners and losers. Gruner draws on a broad spectrum of thought-provoking examples. Holocaust jokes, sexual humor, the racialist dialogue of such comic characters as Stepin Fetchit and Archie Bunker, simple puns, and many of the author's own encounters with everyday humor. Gruner challenges the reader to offer a single example of humor that cannot be "de-humorized" by its agonistic nature. "The Game of Humor "makes intriguing and enjoyable reading for people interested in humor and the aspects of human motivation. This book will also be valuable to professionals in communication and information studies, sociologists, literary critics and linguists, and psychologists concerned with the conflicts and tensions of everyday life.

Funny Bones

Author : Lisa Bany-Winters
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613741863
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Funny Bones written by Lisa Bany-Winters and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on how to be funny, including ideas about comedic styles and routines, how to use props, developing a distinctive character, using music, improvisational techniques, as well as the history of comedy and some well-known people in the field.

It's Only a Game

Author : Terry Bradshaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743424336
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book It's Only a Game written by Terry Bradshaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the absolutely guaranteed 100% mostly true story of Terry Bradshaw: the man who gained sports immortality as the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls -- and the man who later became America's most popular sports broadcaster. IT'S ONLY A GAME "I had a real job once," begins a memoir as honest, unexpected, and downright hysterical as Bradshaw himself. From his humble beginnings in Shreveport, Louisiana, to his success as the centerpiece of the highest-rated football studio show in television history, Terry has always understood the importance of hard work. A veritable jack-of-all-trades, he has probably held more jobs than any other football Hall of Famer ever: pipeline worker, youth minister, professional singer, actor, television and radio talk show host, and now one of the nation's most popular speakers. But let's not forget one of the reasons why so many people know and love Terry Bradshaw: he won four Super Bowls! In It's Only A Game, Terry brings the reader right into the huddle and describes the game from the bottom of a two-ton pile to the top of the sports world. You'll sit right on the fifty-yard line and watch as Terry earns the title world's greatest benchwarmer. And you'll also hear about the single greatest play in pro football -- the Immaculate Reception -- as he never saw it. It's Only A Game is much more than a collection of Terry Bradshaw's favorite and funniest stories, it is the personal account of a great man's search for life before and after football...as only Terry could tell it.

Writing for Games

Author : Hannah Nicklin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000582736
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Writing for Games written by Hannah Nicklin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the independent videogames sector, this book provides readers with a vocabulary to articulate and build their games writing practice; whether studying games or coming to games from another storytelling discipline. Writing for Games offers resources for communication, collaboration, reflection, and advocacy, inviting the reader to situate their practice in a centuries-long heritage of storytelling, as well as considering the material affordances of videogames, and the practical realities of working in game development processes. Structured into three parts, Theory considers the craft of both games and writing from a theoretical perspective, covering vocabulary for both game and story practices. Case Studies uses three case studies to explore the theory explored in Part 1. The Practical Workbook offers a series of provocations, tools and exercises that give the reader the means to refine and develop their writing, not just for now, but as a part of a life-long practice. Writing for Games: Theory and Practice is an approachable and entry-level text for anyone interested in the craft of writing for videogames. Hannah Nicklin is an award-winning narrative and game designer, writer, and academic who has been practising for nearly 15 years. She works hard to create playful experiences that see people and make people feel seen, and also argues for making games a more radical space through mentoring, advocacy, and redefining process. Trained as a playwright, Nicklin moved into interactive practices early on in her career and is now the CEO and studio lead at Danish indie studio Die Gute Fabrik, which most recently launched Mutazione in 2019.

The Comedy of Errors

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics and the American Television Comedy

Author : Doyle Greene
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608296
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Politics and the American Television Comedy written by Doyle Greene and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis of several popular American television programs. Focusing on close readings of the work of Ernie Kovacs, Soupy Sales, and Andy Kaufman, as well as Green Acres and The Gong Show, the author provides a unique glimpse at the often subversive nature of avant-garde television comedy. The crisis in American television during the political unrest of the late 1960s is also studied, as represented by individual analyses of The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and All in the Family. The author also focuses on more contemporary American television, drawing a comparative analysis between the referential postmodernism of The Simpsons and the confrontational absurdity of South Park.

Character Development and Storytelling for Games

Author : Lee Sheldon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000782840
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Character Development and Storytelling for Games written by Lee Sheldon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from the first two books up to date and tackles the new challenges of today. Professional game writer and designer Lee Sheldon combines his experience and expertise in this updated edition. New examples, new game types, and new challenges throughout the text highlight the fundamentals of character writing and storytelling. But this book is not just a box of techniques for writers of video games. It is an exploration of the roots of character development and storytelling that readers can trace from Homer to Chaucer to Cervantes to Dickens and even Mozart. Many contemporary writers also contribute insights from books, plays, television, films, and, yes, games. Sheldon and his contributors emphasize the importance of creative instinct and listening to the inner voice that guides successful game writers and designers. Join him on his quest to instruct, inform, and maybe even inspire your next great game.

The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction

Author : Ben La Farge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137465689
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction written by Ben La Farge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy.

Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen

Author : Chris Head
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155780
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen written by Chris Head and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet sketches, it offers all kinds of useful advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen: using life experience as raw material; constructing comedy worlds; creating comic characters, their relationships and interactions; structuring sketches, scenes and routines; and developing and plotting stories. The book's interviewees, from the UK and the USA, feature stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers and TV comedy producers, and include Steve Kaplan, Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Will Hines teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Lucy Lumsden TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC. Written by “the ideal person to nurture new talent” (The Guardian), Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen includes material you won't find anywhere else and is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and a depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers.