Game Love


Book Description

What does love have to do with gaming? As games have grown in complexity, they have increasingly included narratives that seek to engage players with love in a variety of ways. While media attention often focuses on violent emotions and behavior in gaming, love has always been central to the experience. We love to play games, we have titles that we love, and sometimes we love too much or love terrible games for their shortcomings. Love in gaming is rather like love in life--often complicated and frustrating but also exciting and gratifying. This collection of fresh essays explores the meaning and role of love in gaming, describing a number of ways--from coding to cosplay--in which love can be expressed in, for and around games. Investigating how gaming involves love is also key to understanding the growing importance of games and gamers as cultural markers.




The Game of Love and Death


Book Description

In this “inventive and affecting” historical young adult novel, a black girl and a white boy are pawns in a magical game between Love and Death (Publishers Weekly). Flora and Henry were born a few blocks from each other, innocent of the forces that might keep a white boy and an African American girl apart; years later they meet again and their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. But what Flora and Henry don’t know is that they are pawns in a game played by the eternal adversaries Love and Death, here brilliantly reimagined as two extremely sympathetic and fascinating characters. Can their hearts and their wills overcome not only their earthly circumstances, but forces that have battled throughout history? In the rainy Seattle of the 1920’s, romance blooms among the jazz clubs, the mansions of the wealthy, and the shanty towns of the poor. But what is more powerful: love? Or death? “Race, class, fate and choice—they join Love and Death to play their parts in Brockenbrough’s haunting and masterfully orchestrated narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews




The Love Game


Book Description

His challenge? Make her fall in love with him.Her challenge? Play the player.Until life changes the rules of the game.Maddie Stevens hated Braden Carter on sight. Arrogant, egotistical, and the playboy of the University of California, Berkeley, he's everything her brother Pearce has taught her to despise. So why, when the girls challenge her to play the player, doesn't she say no? She doesn't know either.Braden wanted fiery little Maddie the second he laid eyes on her - and he'd do anything to have her, hence why he's agreed to make her fall in love with him. After all, it's the only way he'll get what he wants. Sex.But, as Braden discovers, there's more to the girl from Brooklyn than he ever imagined - and he can't help but care about the broken girl behind those pretty green eyes.Maddie finds Braden isn't just a walking erection - he actually has feelings. He can be sweet, funny and his good looks don't exactly hurt. That means trouble - but when her brother Pearce turns up in Berkeley begging for her help, she realises Braden and Pearce aren't so alike anymore.And maybe, just maybe, they're exactly what each other needs.




The Game of Love and Life


Book Description

And I feel that I can lay down some lyrics of writings that you will never forget in life. I do believe it will help people mind and soul for life. I feel that I do have a gift to write and encourage people of all nationalities in this world we live in today. Therefore, my beautiful people of the world. Welcome to the game of love and life.




The Game of Love/Life


Book Description

The Game of Love/Life, a time travelers sojourn through heaven and hell, is a compilation of unique essays and poems received through meditationmomentarily entertaining data (inspired thoughts) and activating transcendental insight one needs and nurtures. Here, within this treatise, the inquisitive soul will explore the depths of the mind, manifesting illusions, nurturing deities, divine entities (minds) intuitively traversing illusion, experienced sympathetically (through their heart). To understand todays game of love/life, you need to be technically savvy to the language, logically arranging notions, generating understanding among gifted entities. Everyone is gifted, given inspired feelings that enlighten deities to truth and transcendental revelation unveiled to humanstime-traveling souls utilizing biological vehicles to explore the game of love/life. Within this lexicon of old words, new perspectives of truth and wisdom will raise your consciousness to experience your own epiphanies of truth that are held within your heart and that nurture your curious mind.




The Game of Love and Chance


Book Description

"Silvia, well born and high spirited, is concerned about an arranged marriage so she spends the day of her fiancé's first visit disguised as her maid Lisette while Lisette pretends to be Silvia. The intended husband, Dorante, takes the same precaution, arriving in the guise of his servant. And his servant, who duly comes dressed as Dorante, is the irrepressible and outrageous Harlequin, which means pandemonium ensues. The "servants" are drawn to each other but must overcome the pride and prejudice of their social class while Lisette and Harlequin savor a delicious taste of freedom and respectability. All are deeply perplexed as Marivaux uncompromisingly turns the screw. Silvia's father and brother, who know all but say nothing, preside over the sentimental education of these comedic desperadoes."--




The Game I Love


Book Description




The Love of the Game


Book Description

It seemed a simple enough idea : take over the running of an amateur football team in West London...Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in a team of ex-convicts, aggressive Turks, bizarre injuries, local tourist attractions, the British weather, Russian mergers, extremely overweight rugby players, Vinnie Jones impressionists and ludicrous amounts of travelling, you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for.




For the Love of the Game


Book Description

Exploring the complex issues of class and gender relations, community building and sport reform, this work analyses how local culture shapes the meanings of sport and examines the tensions that exist when athletes and sports teams become important symbols for the community. Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.




Love in the Game


Book Description

Growing up, Gabriella Sanchez had the perfect life. She had the best of friends, she went to a good school, and she had great parents. That was, until her father, the captain of an NHL team, was murdered in front of her at a game. Along with losing her dad, she lost her love for hockey—something she shared and enjoyed with her father. Now older, Gabriella attends college and works at her mother’s diner, going through the motions of daily life but still filled with grief. Her best friend convinces her to attend a hockey game, determined to bring back the old Gabriella. Jeremy Duncan, the best rookie player in the NHL, is drawn to Gabriella as soon as he sees her in the stands. Once he learns of her past, he’s driven to revive her love in the game … and maybe win over her heart in the process. Can Gabriella overcome the pain from her past to see all the beauty and love life has to offer in her future?