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Free Play

Author : Stephen Nachmanovitch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144067308X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Free Play written by Stephen Nachmanovitch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured, and how finally it can be liberated—how we can be liberated—to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. Stephen Nachmanovitch, a pioneer in free improvisation, integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity, drawing on unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. Free Play brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.

Free-to-Play

Author : Will Luton
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 0133411249
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Free-to-Play written by Will Luton and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ Will’s knowledge of F2P comes from years of building games, as well as writing about and consulting with developers on the model. All the topics covered in this book—economics, gameplay, monetization, analytics and marketing—are important to consider when you’re building an F2P game, and Will covers each with an easy-to-digest style.” —Ian Marsh, co-founder, NimbleBit Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away is an accessible and complete guide to the business model that has revolutionized the videogames industry, creating huge hits, multi-billion-dollar startups and a new deal for players: Play for free, spend on what you like. Written by respected game designer and consultant Will Luton, Free-to-Play gives you the in-the-trenches insight you need to build, run and make money from games you give away. In it you’ll find: Psychology behind player decisions and the motivations to play Simple and accessible explanations of the math and economic theories behind F2P, including working examples Processes for capturing and using player data to improve your game Marketing tips on positioning your game and attracting players Plus: A downloadable F2P spreadsheet, articles from the author, a foreword by NimbleBit co-founder Ian Marsh and an interview with Zynga CEO, Mark Pincus.

Free-to-Play

Author : Christopher A. Paul
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262539411
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Free-to-Play written by Christopher A. Paul and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of free-to-play and mobile games that traces what is valued and what is marginalized in discussions of games. Free-to-play and mobile video games are an important and growing part of the video game industry, and yet they are often disparaged by journalists, designers, and players and pronounced inferior to to games with more traditional payment models. In this book, Christopher Paul shows that underlying the criticism is a bias against these games that stems more from who is making and playing them than how they are monetized. Free-to-play and mobile games appeal to a different kind of player, many of whom are women and many of whom prefer different genres of games than multi-level action-oriented killing fests. It's not a coincidence that some of the few free-to-play games that have been praised by games journalists are League of Legends and World of Tanks.

Advanced Advantage Play

Author : Eliot Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Advantage Play written by Eliot Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Advantage Play is the most complete book ever made available to the general public on advantage play against casino table games. It examines beating and protecting nearly all of the table games and side bets that are currently available on casino floors internationally, including blackjack, baccarat and pai gow poker. Based on material first published in Dr. Eliot Jacobson's well-known blog APHeat.net, this book also covers advantage play against marketing and promotions. Easy-to-read and backed up by computer and statistical analysis, Advanced Advantage Play is a book that everyone who wants to beat or protect casino table games should own. This is exactly the same book as first published in 2015 by Blue Point Books. Reviews for the previous printing are here: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/188342339

Games As A Service

Author : Oscar Clark
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317908872
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Games As A Service written by Oscar Clark and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The games industry is serious business and the role of a games designer has dramatically changed over just the last few years. Developers now have to rethink everything they know about the creative, technical and business challenges to adapt to the transition to games as a service. Games as a Service: How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games has been written to help designers overcome many of the fears and misconceptions surrounding freemium and social games. It provides a framework to deliver better games rather than the ‘evil’ or ‘manipulative’ experiences some designers fear with the move away from wasteful Products to sustainable, trustworthy Services. Oscar Clark is a consultant and Evangelist for Everyplay from Applifier. He has been a pioneer in online, mobile and console social games services since 1998 including Wireplay (British Telecom), Hutchison Whampoa (3UK) and PlayStation®Home. He is a regular columnist on PocketGamer.Biz and is an outspoken speaker and moderator at countless games conferences on Games Design, Discovery, and Monetisation. He is also a notorious hat wearer.

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination

Author : Mojca Küplen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319198998
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination written by Mojca Küplen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put forward in part one of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The book explores the possibility of incorporating ugliness, a negative aesthetic concept, into the overall Kantian aesthetic picture. It addresses a debate of the last two decades over whether Kant's aesthetics should allow for a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness. The book critically reviews the main interpretations of Kant’s central notion of the free play of imagination and understanding and offers a new interpretation of free play, one that allows for the possibility of a disharmonious state of mind and ugliness. In addition, the book also applies an interpretation of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetics to resolve certain issues that have been raised in contemporary aesthetics, namely the possibility of appreciating artistic and natural ugliness and the role of disgust in artistic representation. Offering a theoretical and practical analysis of different kinds of negative aesthetic experiences, this book will help readers acquire a better understanding of his or her own evaluative processes, which may be helpful in coping with complex aesthetic experiences. Readers will gain unique insight into how ugliness can be offensive, yet, at the same time, fascinating, interesting and captivating.

Children’s Free Play and Participation in the City

Author : Raymond Lorenzo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981190300X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Children’s Free Play and Participation in the City written by Raymond Lorenzo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults. The book's abundant spoken dialogue is, in effect, storytelling between children (and youth) on their own and with adults (especially the elderly). It conveys an appreciation of children’s special capacities to think critically about their everyday places—and the greater world around them—and to develop solutions (or ‘projects’) for the problems they identify. This book serves an effective catalyst for stimulating rich discussion of the theoretical and practical bases of the many themes, or areas of study, which are treated in the story.

1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas

Author : Jean Oram
Publisher : Oram Productions
ISBN 13 : 1928198198
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book 1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas written by Jean Oram and published by Oram Productions. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWESOME boredom busting play ideas—from creative crafts to zany new travel games! From mind-boggling science experiments to tricky challenges that will give your kids a case of the giggles. Beat the boredom blues with over 1,000 play ideas suitable for three-year-olds to eleven-year olds. There's something for everyone in this tried and tested book from NY Times bestselling author (and mom!), Jean Oram. "A lifesaver for parents and educators." --Kenneth, reader. Make it easy to say “no” to more screen time and “yes” to more play time with activities that will delight your children. Want to be the new favorite in the family? Check out some of the fun to be had with this one-of-a-kind book, 1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas: + 101 tricky, goofy challenges for kids + 36 Travel games PLUS 24 more games that can be played in the car + Arts and crafts (and holiday crafts, too) + Outside play ideas + Mad scientist safe & easy experiments--including Flubber! + Birthday party games + Family day trip ideas + Homeschool and classroom games + And more play, play, play! Includes 26 BONUS activities for a grand total of 1,027 activities to keep your kids happy! Have your best sleepover, birthday party, road tip, babysitting experience, snowy day, or homeschool play time ever! Play time is MORE than just crafts. The brain learns by playing. Build smarter, happier, healthier children... start with 1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas, because your kids deserve it. Keywords: crafts, crafts for kids, free play ideas, free range kids, antidote for helicopter parents, games for kids, challenges for kids, play ideas, game rules, game ideas, classic games, classic outdoor games, teacher resources, camp counselor idea books, Easter crafts, birthday party games, Christmas crafts, Halloween crafts, outdoor play ideas, family fun ideas, playcation, staycation ideas, family game night, family time, daycare resources, playschool resources, kindergarten resources, child development, empathy development, confidence building in kids, books for babysitters, keep kids busy, keep kids busy book, screen free play ideas, screen-free, healthy children, healthy kids, raising kids, raising children, how to raise kids, over scheduled kids, over scheduled children, over-scheduled kids, childhood anxiety, outdoor games, outdoor play, active play ideas, quiet play ideas, reading games, math games, travel games, family travel games.

Free to Learn

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465037917
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Free to Learn written by Peter Gray and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning -- "unschooling" -- is the best way to get kids to learn. In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history, he demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient. A brave, counterintuitive proposal for freeing our children from the shackles of the curiosity-killing institution we call school, Free to Learn suggests that it's time to stop asking what's wrong with our children, and start asking what's wrong with the system. It shows how we can act—both as parents and as members of society—to improve children's lives and to promote their happiness and learning.

Fair Play

Author : Eve Rodsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525541942
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Fair Play written by Eve Rodsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.

Youth Soccer Offensive Drills, Plays, Strategies and Games Free Flow Handbook

Author : Bob Swope
Publisher : Bob Swope, Jacobob Press
ISBN 13 : 0982096062
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Youth Soccer Offensive Drills, Plays, Strategies and Games Free Flow Handbook written by Bob Swope and published by Bob Swope, Jacobob Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical handbook for youth Soccer coaches. It has 77 drills, plays and games variations, complete with illustrated diagrams, and an explanation of how each one works. They are all numbered for easy reference between coaches. It covers all the offensive fundamentals coaches need to get started. And it has sample practice schedules to look over.

Game Programming Patterns

Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
ISBN 13 : 0990582914
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Game Programming Patterns written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.

3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition

Author : Fletcher Dunn
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1568817231
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (688 download)

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Book Synopsis 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition by : Fletcher Dunn

Download or read book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition written by Fletcher Dunn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-trenches practical experience, the authors teach you how to describe objects and their positions, orientations, and trajectories in 3D using mathematics. The text provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including the fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices. It also covers orientation in three dimensions, calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves.

Cat Kid Comic Club

Author : Dav Pilkey
Publisher : Graphix
ISBN 13 : 9781536467451
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Cat Kid Comic Club written by Dav Pilkey and published by Graphix. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Cat Kid Comic Club, where Li'l Petey (LP), Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress,

Ready Player Two

Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524761354
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Ready Player Two written by Ernest Cline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

Overcoming Procrastination

Author : Neil A. Fiore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567315561
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Procrastination written by Neil A. Fiore and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trapped in a Video Game

Author : Dustin Brady
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449496261
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Trapped in a Video Game written by Dustin Brady and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Rigsby hates video games—and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good!