Author : Heather Adamson
Publisher : Momentum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Illustrated books
ISBN : 9781634074629
Presents information about video games, including their history and how they are designed and constructed.
Author : Ralph H. Baer
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766044203
There are few kids who don't enjoy home video games, but do they know who invented the first one? Readers learn about Ralph Baer's life and the first home video games ever made. Readers will invent their own game, too.
Author : Sean Tulien
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728432707
Video games evolved over decades from simple consoles to cutting-edge entertainment in homes and arcades. In the twenty-first century, they've also become some of the world's most popular apps. Find out more about the technological innovations, major players, and controversies that have made video-game history. And from the role of game cartridges to the power of the internet, learn how new inventions keep taking gaming to the next level.
Author : Jonathan Hennessey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0399578900
A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format. Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color, chronological origin story for this hugely successful, omnipresent artform and business. Hennessey provides readers with everything they need to know about video games--from their early beginnings during World War II to the emergence of arcade games in the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to today's app-based games like Angry Birds and Pokemon Go. Hennessey and McGowan also analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its impact on society. Each chapter features spotlights on major players in the development of games and gaming that contains everything that gamers and non-gamers alike need to understand and appreciate this incredible phenomenon.
Author : Morgan McGuire
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1568813058
Creating Games offers a comprehensive overview of the technology, content, and mechanics of game design. It emphasizes the broad view of a games team and teaches you enough about your teammates' areas so that you can work effectively with them. The authors have included many worksheets and exercises to help get your small indie team off the ground. Special features: Exercises at the end of each chapter combine comprehension tests with problems that help the reader interact with the material Worksheet exercises provide creative activities to help project teams generate new ideas and then structure them in a modified version of the format of a game industry design document Pointers to the best resources for digging deeper into each specialized area of game development Website with worksheets, figures from the book, and teacher materials including study guides, lecture presentations, syllabi, supplemental exercises, and assessment materials
Author : Dustin Hansen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250080959
"A middle-grade nonfiction book about the history and impact on pop culture of video games"--
Author : Marcie Wessels
Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2020
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN : 9781454932598
"A picture book biography of Ralph Baer, nicknamed "The Father of Videogames," which shows how a great inventor found a way to transform the early television set into a vehicle for gaming"--
Author : Nadia Higgins
Publisher : Sequence Entertainment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781681514444
A chronicle of the people, matches, and world events that shaped the South American mens Argentine soccer team known as Boca Juniors, from its founding in 1905 to today.
Author : Duncan Harris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 050002314X
An in-depth visual guide presenting the detailed creative journeys behind the development of the world’s leading videogames. Making Videogames is an extraordinary snapshot of modern interactive entertainment, with insight from pioneers about the most important games in the industry. Illustrated with some of the most arresting in-game images ever seen in print, this book explores the unique alchemy of a technical and artistic endeavor striking a captivating balance between insider insight and accessibility. Across twelve chapters, each focusing on a specific game from AAA blockbusters such as Control and Half-Life: Alyx to cult breakthrough games including No Man’s Sky and Return of the Obra Dinn, this volume documents the incredible craft of videogame worldbuilding. These chapters present masterful visual storytelling via the world’s most popular, but seldom fully understood, entertainment medium. Demonstrating the magic and method behind each studio’s work, the book includes enlightening text by Alex Wiltshire complementing specially created imagery “photographed” in-engine by screen capture artist Duncan Harris. A book for die-hard videogame fanatics, aspiring designer-creatives, video game developers, and the visually curious alike, Making Videogames will showcase the boundless creativity of this thrilling industry.
