Shibumi Rule Book

Author : Cameron Browne
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471087298
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shibumi Rule Book written by Cameron Browne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shibumi set is the simplest and most elegant of game systems, yet it hides surprising depth. This book introduces the system, its philosophy and mechanisms, and describes the complete rules for over 30 games. These include the best entries from the Shibumi Challenge game design contest, along with several solitaire puzzles and multi-player games.

Author : Marios C. Angelides
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118796276
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Digital Games written by Marios C. Angelides and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the state-of-the-art in digital games research and development for anyone working with or studying digital games and those who are considering entering into this rapidly growing industry. Many books have been published that sufficiently describe popular topics in digital games; however, until now there has not been a comprehensive book that draws the traditional and emerging facets of gaming together across multiple disciplines within a single volume.

Author : Cameron Browne
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326357794
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game & Puzzle Design, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015 (B&W) written by Cameron Browne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Games: A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.

Author : Matthew E. May
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071795626
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything written by Matthew E. May and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2013 Small Business Book Award for Economics The world is more overwhelming than ever before. Our work is deeper and more demanding than ever. Our businesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. Our economy is more uncertain than ever. Our resources are scarcer than ever. There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences. Everybody knows everything about us. The simple life is a thing of the past. Everywhere, there's too much of the wrong stuff and not enough of the right. The noise is deafening, the signal weak. Everything is too complicated and time-sucking. Welcome to the age of excess everything. Success in this new age looks different and demands a new skill: Subtraction. Subtraction is defined simply as the art of removing anything excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to use, or ugly . . . or the discipline to refrain from adding it in the first place. And if subtraction is the new skill to be acquired, we need a guide to developing it. Enter The Laws of Subtraction. Through a dozen of the most compelling stories of breakthrough innovation culled from 2,000 cases and bolstered by uniquely personal essays contributed by over 50 of the most creative minds in business today, The Laws of Subtraction outlines six simple rules for winning in the age of excess everything, and delivers a single yet powerful idea: When you remove just the right things in just the right way, something very good happens. The Laws of Subtraction features contributions by over 50 highly regarded thinkers, creatives, and executives. On Law #1: What Isn't There Can Often Trump What Is "When you reduce the number of doors that someone can walk through, more people walk through the one that you want them to walk through." -- SCOTT BELSKY, founder and CEO of Behance and author of Making Ideas Happen On Law #2: The Simplest Rules Create the Most Effective Experience "Keeping it simple isn't easy. By exploiting subtraction in innovation, we've been able to create an environment of freedom and creativity that allows us to thrive." -- BRAD SMITH, CEO, Intuit On Law #3: Limiting Information Engages the Imagination "Subtraction can mean the difference between a highly persuasive presentation and a long, convoluted, and confusing one. Why say more when you can say less?" -- CARMINE GALLO, author of The Apple Experience On Law #4: Creativity Thrives Under Intelligent Constraints "Here's the key to the conundrum for managers who want to stoke the innovation fire: That close cousin of scarcity, constraint, can indeed foster creativity." -- TERESA AMABILE, author of The Progress Principle On Law #5: Break Is the Important Part of Breakthrough "If you kill the butterflies in your stomach, you'll kill the dream. Embrace the feeling. Save the butterflies." -- JONATHAN FIELDS, author of Uncertainty On Law #6: Doing Something Isn't Always Better Than Doing Nothing "When we're faced with the greatest odds against us, often we need to edit rather than add." -- CHIP CONLEY, cofounder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Emotional Equations

Author : Trevanian
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345285850
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shibumi written by Trevanian and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, he is the world's most artful lover...and most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain the state of perfection called shibumi. But the most sinister enemy he has ever faced is bent on destroying him. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Robert I. Sutton
Publisher : Business Plus
ISBN 13 : 0759518017
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No Asshole Rule written by Robert I. Sutton and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.

Author : Trevanian
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030723844X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eiger Sanction written by Trevanian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger. In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, the author traces Hemlock’s spine-tingling adventures, introducing a cast of intriguing characters—villains, traitors, beautiful women—into the highly charged atmosphere of danger. The accumulating threads of suspicion, accusation, and evidence gradually knit themselves into a bizarre and death-defying climax in this exciting, entertaining novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last absorbing page.

Author : Gerry Pelser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining Giulia written by Gerry Pelser and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrequited love leaves room for another in Leigh's heart... and bed. Leigh McCabe has had a taste of the dark side and there is no return to normality: as a master of Shibari and a connoisseur of Dominance and submission, Mikey Marais has shown her pleasure in restraint and pain. But the student turns teacher as Dominance beckons to the sub. The beautiful and innocent Giulia Hoffmann is ready to spread her wings and escape from her mother's rusty cage. She convinces Leigh to take nude photos of her to prove to her controlling mother that she's her own woman now. Leigh cannot deny the stirring of desire the extraordinary Giulia causes. Leigh uses her as a photographic model; excited to share her seductive new world and explore a taboo relationship with an eager, submissive woman. Love knows no bounds, and no gender. Leigh finds herself caught between her submissive instinct and the thrill of the Domme. Between a man's control and a woman's delicate touch. Her body and soul. Heart and mind. Darkness and light. While helping Giulia discover the pleasures of deviant desires; Leigh becomes addicted to what it feels like to be loved by a woman's touch, and the rush of dominating someone so eager to submit. However, Mikey saved her life physically and emotionally, and Leigh can't bear to lose him. But she knows she can never love him completely, and Giulia may need her too much. How will Leigh choose? Can Giulia reconcile? And What will Mikey make of all of this?

Author : Cameron Browne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447121791
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Game Design written by Cameron Browne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the world's first successful experiment in fully automated board game design. Evolutionary methods were used to derive new rule sets within a custom game description language, and self-play trials used to estimate each derived game's potential to interest human players. The end result is a number of new and interesting games, one of which has proved popular and gone on to be commercially published.