Everquest Companion

Author : Robert Marks
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everquest Companion written by Robert Marks and published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everquest is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). This is the only book to tell the story behind Everquest, as it takes readers behind the scenes to meet the game's creators and developers.

Author : Mark J.P. Wolf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000886026
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to contemporary video game studies, this second edition has been fully revised and updated to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies. Expertly compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, the Companion includes comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing video games, new perspectives on video games both as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of video games, and accounts of the political, social, and cultural dynamics of video games. Brand new to this second edition are chapters examining topics such as preservation; augmented, mixed, and virtual reality; eSports; disability; diversity; and identity, as well as a new section that specifically examines the industrial aspects of video games including digital distribution, game labor, triple-A games, indie games, and globalization. Each essay provides a lively and succinct summary of its target area, quickly bringing the reader up-to-date on the pertinent issues surrounding each aspect of the field, including references for further reading. A comprehensive overview of the present state of video game studies that will undoubtedly prove invaluable to students, scholars, and game designers alike.

Author : Timothy Rowlands
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315416034
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Video Game Worlds written by Timothy Rowlands and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As massively multiplayer online (MMO) games grow in scope and popularity, what are the characteristics of their emerging gaming culture? How is this culture shaped by the decisions made by game designers and the collective interpretations of a game’s player base? In this book, Timothy Rowlands brings a diverse mix of ethnographic, semiotic, and analytical approaches to the virtual world of EverQuest. Through first-hand player experiences and interviews of other gamers, Rowlands analyzes a gaming environment that, as time goes on, looks less like leisure and more like a workspace. This groundbreaking fusion of sociology and the world of MMOs is a must read for scholars and gamers alike.

Author : Dick Houtman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 0754679012
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes of Individualization written by Dick Houtman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. The process is instead conceptualized as an increasing social significance of moral notions of individual liberty, personal authenticity and cultural tolerance, which informs two paradoxes.

Author : Tom Apperley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 908160211X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaming Rhythms written by Tom Apperley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Global gaming networks are heterogenous collectives of localized practices, not unified commercial products. Shifting the analysis of digital games to local specificities that build and perform the global and general, Gaming Rhythms employs ethnographic work conducted in Venezuela and Australia to account for the material experiences of actual game players. This book explores the materiality of digital play across diverse locations and argues that the dynamic relation between the everyday life of the player and the experience of digital game play can only be understood by examining play-practices in their specific situations." -- Website.

Author : Richard A. Knaak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576991
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diablo Archive written by Richard A. Knaak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the first three Diablo novels includes Legacy of Blood, The Black Road, and The Kingdom of Shadow, and is complemented by the original eBook title, Demonsbane, in which a warrior, the sole survivor of a massacre, is driven to avenge his fallen comrades. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Adrian, Angela
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615207961
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Order in Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, Their Ownership and Rights written by Adrian, Angela and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the legal realities which are emerging from Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPGs) or virtual worlds that demonstrate many of the traits we associate with the Earth world: interpersonal relationships, economic transactions, and organic political institutions"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rune Brincker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118535154
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Operational Modal Analysis written by Rune Brincker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively covers the basic principles and practice ofOperational Modal Analysis (OMA). Covers all important aspects that are needed to understand whyOMA is a practical tool for modal testing Covers advanced topics, including closely spaced modes, modeshape scaling, mode shape expansion and estimation of stress andstrain in operational responses Discusses practical applications of Operational ModalAnalysis Includes examples supported by MATLAB® applications Accompanied by a website hosting a MATLAB® toolbox forOperational Modal Analysis

Author : T.L. Hill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146125082X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooperativity Theory in Biochemistry written by T.L. Hill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past few decades we have witnessed an era of remarkable growth in the field of molecular biology. In 1950 very little was known of the chemical constitution of biological systems, the manner in which information was trans mitted from one organism to another, or the extent to which the chemical basis of life is unified. The picture today is dramatically different. We have an almost bewildering variety of information detailing many different aspects of life at the molecular level. These great advances have brought with them some breath-taking insights into the molecular mechanisms used by nature for rep licating, distributing and modifying biological information. We have learned a great deal about the chemical and physical nature of the macromolecular nucleic acids and proteins, and the manner in which carbohydrates, lipids and smaller molecules work together to provide the molecular setting of living sys tems. It might be said that these few decades have replaced a near vacuum of information with a very large surplus. It is in the context of this flood of information that this series of monographs on molecular biology has been organized. The idea is to bring together in one place, between the covers of one book, a concise assessment of the state of the subject in a well-defined field. This will enable the reader to get a sense of historical perspective-what is known about the field today-and a description of the frontiers of research where our knowledge is increasing steadily.

Author : D. Lynden-Bell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792306993
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baryonic Dark Matter written by D. Lynden-Bell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-03-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visible universe is a small perturbation on the material universe. Zwicky and Sinclair Smith in the 1930s gave evidence of invisible mass in the Coma and Virgo Clusters of Galaxies. Better optical data has only served to confound their critics and the X-ray data confirms that the gravitational potentials are many times larger than those predicted on the basis of the observed stars. Dynamical analyses of individual galaxies have found that significant extra mass is needed to explain their rotational velocities. On much larger scales, tens of megaparsecs, there is suggestive evidence that there is even more mass per unit luminosity. What is this non-luminous stuff of which the universe is made'? How much of it is there? Need there be only one kind of stuff? There are three basic possi bili ties:- all of it is ordinary (baryonic) matter, all of it is some other kind of (non-baryonic) matter, or some of it is baryonic and some is non-baryonic.