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Author : Aaron Allston
Publisher : Origin Systems
ISBN 13 : 9780929373089
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Ultima Underworld Clue Book written by Aaron Allston and published by Origin Systems. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Austin Grossman
Publisher : Origin Systems
ISBN 13 : 9780929373126
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)
Download or read book ULTIMA Underworld II Clue Book written by Austin Grossman and published by Origin Systems. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shay Addams
Publisher : Compute
ISBN 13 : 9780874552645
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)
Download or read book The Official Book of Ultima written by Shay Addams and published by Compute. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929373188
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)
Download or read book ULTIMA VIII Clue Book written by Melissa Mead and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Howard
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040057764
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Game Magic written by Jeff Howard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make More Immersive and Engaging Magic Systems in GamesGame Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore, encompassing the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in games and human belief. The author combines rigorous scholarly analysis wi
Author : Caroline Spector
Publisher : Prima Games
ISBN 13 : 9781559582513
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Ultima VII and Underworld written by Caroline Spector and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the story lines for two new adventure games set in the fictional realm of Britannia, and includes tips on strategy
Author : David Kushner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362892
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Masters of Doom written by David Kushner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
Author : Carly A. Kocurek
Publisher : Amherst College Press
ISBN 13 : 1943208662
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game written by Carly A. Kocurek and published by Amherst College Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultima and World-Building in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) and to assess its lasting impact on the RPG genre and video game industry. Through archival and popular media sources, examinations of fan communities, and the game itself, this book historicizes the games and their authors. By attending to the salient moments and sites of game creation throughout the series’ storied past, authors Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Thomas Payne detail the creative choices and structural forces that brought Ultima’s celebrated brand of role-playing to fruition. This book first considers the contributions of series founder and lead designer, Richard Garriott, examining how his fame and notoriety as a pioneering computer game auteur shaped Ultima’s reception and paved the way for the evolution of the series. Next, the authors retrace the steps that Garriott took in fusing analog, tabletop role-playing with his self-taught lessons in computer programming. Close textual analyses of Ultima I outline how its gameplay elements offered a foundational framework for subsequent innovations in design and storytelling. Moving beyond the game itself, the authors assess how marketing materials and physical collectibles amplified its immersive hold and how the series’ legions of fans have preserved the series. Game designers, long-time gamers, and fans will enjoy digging into the games’ production history and mechanics while media studies and game scholars will find Ultima and World-Building in the Computer Role-Playing Game a useful extension of inquiry into authorship, media history, and the role of fantasy in computer game design.
Author : Matt Barton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351273396
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Dungeons and Desktops written by Matt Barton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. Thisnew edition inlcudes two new chapters: The Modern Age, and a chapter on Indies and Mobile CRPGs. The new modern age chapter will cover, among other topics, Kickstarter/FIG crowdfunded projects such as Torment: Tides of Numenera and Pillars of Eternity. It'll also bring the book up to date with major games such as Dragon Age, Witcher, Skyrim. Expanded info in first chapter about educational potential of CRPGs. Color figures will be introduced for the first time. Key Features gives reviews of hundreds of games across many platforms. comprehensive book covering the history of computer RPGs. comprehensive index at the back, letting you quickly look up your favourite titles
Author : Stephen Emond
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781470167226
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Ultima Online: the Ultimate Collector's Guide written by Stephen Emond and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15 Years ago Ultima Online became the world's first true Massively Multiplayer Online RPG and changed the face of gaming forever. From Shattered Legacy to High Seas, hundreds of thousands have explored the realms of shattered Sosaria... Are you with us? This mammoth 460 page tribute to the Ultima Online series contains highly detailed information and pictures for 181 main releases, 386 books & collectibles, and 75 miscellaneous items. A grand total of 642 items from 21 countries across 5 continents! In addition to regular entries there are comprehensive variation guides for each game. They provide side-by-side comparisons illustrating the differences between different maps, boxes, books, discs, etc. There's even some history & lore for extra flavoring. The original Ultima Online and all 10 expansion packs are covered in exhaustive detail. Also included are Ultima Worlds Online: Origin, Ultima X: Odyssey, UO Mobile, Lord of Ultima, Ultima Forever, as well as the many Collections & Compilations. Also included are a Media checklist, complete Ultima Generation card checklist and seven "Lost Worlds." Black & White Edition. For the complete Ultima Saga be sure to check out the entire book series: Ultima: The Ultimate Collector's Guide - 2012 Edition Ultima Online: The Ultimate Collector's Guide - 2013 Edition Ultima Online: The Ultimate Collector's Guide - 2013 Gold Edition Ultima: The Ultimate Companion Guide - 2013 Edition Ultima: The Ultimate Companion Guide - 2013 Gold Edition
Author : Daniel Mackay
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786450479
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Fantasy Role-Playing Game written by Daniel Mackay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one can imagine and the referee allows. The players don't exactly compete; instead, they interact with each other and with the fantasy setting. The game is played orally with no game board, and although the referee usually has a storyline planned for a game, much of the action is impromptu. Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art--especially in terms of aesthetics--of role-playing games. The book also serves as a contribution to the beginnings of a body of criticism, theory, and aesthetics analysis of a mostly unrecognized and newly developing art form. There are four parts: the cultural structure, the extent to which the game relates to outside cultural elements; the formal structure, or the rules of the game; the social structure, which encompasses the degree and quality of social interaction among players; and the aesthetic structure, concerned with the emergence of role-playing as an art form.
Author : Richard Rouse III
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1449633455
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Game Design: Theory and Practice, Second Edition written by Richard Rouse III and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Both burgeoning game designers and devoted gamers should consider [Game Design: Theory & Practice] an essential read.” — Computer Gaming World “Ultimately, in both theory and practice, Rouse’s Game Design bible gets the job done. Let us pray.” - Next Generation magazine In the second edition to the acclaimed Game Design: Theory & Practice, designer Richard Rouse III balances a discussion of the essential concepts behind game design with an explanation of how you can implement them in your current project. Detailed analysis of successful games is interwoven with concrete examples from Rouse’s own experience. This second edition thoroughly updates the popular original with new chapters and fully revised text.
Author : Matt Fox
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647257X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Video Games Guide written by Matt Fox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Video Games Guide is the world's most comprehensive reference book on computer and video games. Presented in an A to Z format, this greatly expanded new edition spans fifty years of game design--from the very earliest (1962's Spacewar) through the present day releases on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC. Each game entry includes the year of release, the hardware it was released on, the name of the developer/publisher, a one to five star quality rating, and a descriptive review which offers fascinating nuggets of trivia, historical notes, cross-referencing with other titles, information on each game's sequels and of course the author's views and insights into the game. In addition to the main entries and reviews, a full-color gallery provides a visual timeline of gaming through the decades, and several appendices help to place nearly 3,000 games in context. Appendices include: a chronology of gaming software and hardware, a list of game designers showing their main titles, results of annual video game awards, notes on sourcing video games, and a glossary of gaming terms.
Author : Andrea Contato
Publisher : Andrea Contato
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Through the Moongate. The Story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima written by Andrea Contato and published by Andrea Contato. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Garriott is one of the most well-known personalities in the video game industry, and one of the last of its pioneers still in the business. Ultima, the revolutionary series of role-playing games he designed, and Origin Systems Inc., the company he co-founded in 1983, are inextricably linked to the history of videogames. This is their story. Part 2 – From Wing Commander and Ultima VII to Portalarium
Author : Richard Garriott
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062286676
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Explore/Create written by Richard Garriott and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventor, adventurer, entrepreneur, collector, and entertainer, and son of legendary scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott, Richard Garriott de Cayeux has been behind some of the most exciting undertakings of our time. A legendary pioneer of the online gaming industry—and a member of every gaming Hall of Fame—Garriott invented the multi-player online game, and coined the term “Avatar” to describe an individual’s online character. A lifelong adventurer and member of the Explorers Club, Garriott has used the fortune he amassed from the gaming business to embark on a number of thrilling expeditions. He has plumbed the depths of the Atlantic ocean to see the remains of the Titanic, hunted for meteorites in Antarctica, and in 2008 became one of the first private citizens to be launched into space. Richard has been one of the foremost pioneers of the private space industry, investing his time and energy into making space travel more accessible. In this fascinating memoir, Garriott invites readers on the great adventure that is his life. Yet his is no ordinary autobiography; throughout, Garriott engages readers with interactive activities and challenges them with “secret codes” for his games. An audacious genius with an insatiable curiosity and an irrepressible playfulness, Garriott takes readers on an unforgettable intellectual experience that is enlightening, adventurous, and fun.
Author : Jason Schreier
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538735482
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Press Reset written by Jason Schreier and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's groundbreaking reporting has earned him a place among the preeminent investigative journalists covering the world of video games. In his eagerly anticipated, deeply researched new book, Schreier trains his investigative eye on the volatility of the video game industry and the resilience of the people who work in it. The business of videogames is both a prestige industry and an opaque one. Based on dozens of first-hand interviews that cover the development of landmark games—Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and more—on to the shocking closures of the studios that made them, Press Reset tells the stories of how real people are affected by game studio shutdowns, and how they recover, move on, or escape the industry entirely. Schreier's insider interviews cover hostile takeovers, abusive bosses, corporate drama, bounced checks, and that one time the Boston Red Sox's Curt Schilling decided he was going to lead a game studio that would take out World of Warcraft. Along the way, he asks pressing questions about why, when the video game industry is more successful than ever, it's become so hard to make a stable living making video games—and whether the business of making games can change before it's too late.
Author : L.S. Hilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184333
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Domina written by L.S. Hilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe’s glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh—now Elisabeth Teerlinc—can finally stop running. She’s got the paycheck, lifestyle, and wardrobe she always dreamed of, not to mention the interest of a Russian billionaire. But when a chance encounter in Ibiza leads to a corpse that is, for once, not her own doing, she finds her life is back on the line—and she’s more alone than ever. It seems Judith’s become involved with more than just one stolen painting, and there is someone else willing to kill for what’s theirs. From St. Moritz to Serbia, Judith again finds herself maneuvering the strange landscapes of wealth, but this time there’s far more than her reputation at stake. How far will Rage take Judith? Far enough to escape death? The second installment in an unforgettable trilogy, Domina is the next sexy, ruthless, and decadent thriller from mastermind L. S. Hilton, and an adventure that will push Judith further than even she imagined she could go.
