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There's no better starting point than this volume for someone wishing to get into this exciting field, whether they are new game writers wanting to hone their skills, or film and T.V. scriptwriters who want to learn how to transfer their skills to the games industry. As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased. Creating narrative - a traditionally static form - for games is a ma...

A plucky farm dog will do anything to get a job-even be a cow!When a farmer tells a dog that "dogs just eat and don't give anything back, " the dog is disappointed, but not discouraged. He'll try being a cow, a horse, and a chicken before he's done. As the farmer learns the value of a good dog, children will laugh as the dog finds his rightful place on the farm.Teresa Batemen's endearing story celebrates persistence, ingenuity, and the fact th...

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. You do everything on your smartphone and love it--you are, now and forevermore, a cyborg. But how would you know if you were a good cyborg? Game designer and philosopher Chris Bateman explores cyborg virtue through problems such as cyberbullying, "fake news, " and the indifference of computers to human needs. Bateman reveals our shallow-sightedness in the face of the unfathomable complexity of our cy...

Can games be art? When film critic Roger Ebert claimed in 2010 that videogames could never be art it was seen as a snub by many gamers. But from the perspective of philosophy of art this question was topsy turvey, since according to one of the most influential theories of representation all art is a game. Kendall Walton's prop theory explains how we interact with paintings, novels, movies and other artworks in terms of imaginary games, like a ...

What does the Wikipedia know, and how can it know it? More to the point, how can anyone using an anonymously edited source, the contents of which change on a daily basis, know that what they are reading constitutes knowledge? In this provocative challenge to contemporary concepts of objectivity, four figures of knowledge - the Wikipedia, scientific experiments, anonymous peer review, and school education - are investigated in order to question...

Beruflich läuft es für Harry einfach großartig. Als Fernsehkoch ist er in ganz Irland bekannt - allerdings nicht nur für seine leckeren Rezepte, sondern auch für seine zahlreichen Affären und Alkoholeskapaden. Die fallen seiner Familie gründlich auf die Nerven: Sein Sohn hasst ihn, der Tochter ist er peinlich und Gattin Ruth hat endgültig die Nase voll und reicht die Scheidung ein. Doch vor dem Gerichtstermin fällt Harry ins Koma. Als er aufw...

21st Century Game Design teaches designers how to design better games, not from a how-to perspective, but from a why perspective. Good designers know the fundamentals of how to design a game, but learning how to study and understand their intended audience helps make games that truly satisfy players. Understanding the players? needs also provides the missing link between the process of design and the players, developers, and publishers of game...

What is the nature of life? Scientists turn to natural selection, genes or adaptation to explain the living world, but much of the imagery used to present evolution threatens to distort our understanding of the incredible history of our planet. There is no science without mythology, and the only way to reveal the facts is to understand the fictions.The Mythology of Evolution exposes the seven spins given to evolutionary theory, each resting up...

Facing ethical disaster perhaps what we need isn't moral law but moral chaos.

A plucky farm dog will do anything to get a job-even be a cow!When a farmer tells a dog that "dogs just eat and don't give anything back, " the dog is disappointed, but not discouraged. He'll try being a cow, a horse, and a chicken before he's done. As the farmer learns the value of a good dog, children will laugh as the dog finds his rightful place on the farm.Teresa Batemen's endearing story celebrates persistence, ingenuity, and the fact th...