The Zork Chronicles
Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780380753888
Philosophy Through Video Games
Author : Jon Cogburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 113585968X
Book Description
How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics? Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness? How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from Zork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization? A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that by 2011 over 30 percent of US households will own a Wii console - about the same percentage that owned a television in 1953. In Philosophy Through Video Games, Jon Cogburn and Mark Silcox - philosophers with game industry experience - investigate the aesthetic appeal of video games, their effect on our morals, the insights they give us into our understanding of perceptual knowledge, personal identity, artificial intelligence, and the very meaning of life itself, arguing that video games are popular precisely because they engage with longstanding philosophical problems. Topics covered include: * The Problem of the External World * Dualism and Personal Identity * Artificial and Human Intelligence in the Philosophy of Mind * The Idea of Interactive Art * The Moral Effects of Video Games * Games and God's Goodness Games discussed include: Madden Football, Wii Sports, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, Sims Online, Second Life, Baldur's Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, Elder Scrolls, Zork, EverQuest Doom, Halo 2, Grand Theft Auto, Civilization, Mortal Kombat, Rome: Total War, Black and White, Aidyn Chronicles
Stationfall
Author : Arthur Byron Cover
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780380753871
Book Description
The Order of Odd-Fish
Author : James Kennedy
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375848991
Book Description
JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that lead Jo and Lily out of California forever—and into the mysterious, strange, fantastical world of Eldritch City. There, Jo learns the scandalous truth about who she is, and she and Lily join the Order of Odd-Fish, a collection of knights who research useless information. Glamorous cockroach butlers, pointless quests, obsolete weapons, and bizarre festivals fill their days, but two villains are controlling their fate. Jo is inching closer and closer to the day when her destiny is fulfilled, and no one in Eldritch City will ever be the same.
Wishbringer
Author : Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780380753857
Book Description
Ready, Okay!
Author : Adam Cadre
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2000-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060195584
Book Description
A novel about alienated adolescents follows a group of teens in suburban California as they move through a dangerous world inhabited by drugs, violence, and parental abadonment.
Planetfall
Author : Arthur Byron Cover
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780380753840
Book Description
Dungeon Hacks
Author : David L. Craddock
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1000425673
Book Description
In 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within them: Computers were not toys. Defying authority, hackers seized control of monolithic mainframes to create a new breed of computer game: the roguelike, cryptic and tough-as-nails adventures drawn from text-based symbols instead of state-of-the-art 3D graphics. Despite their visual simplicity, roguelike games captivate thousands of players around the world. From the author of the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series, Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games introduces you to the visionaries behind some of the most popular roguelikes of all time and shows how their creations paved the way for the blockbuster videogames of today—and beyond.
Gamelife
Author : Michael W. Clune
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374713170
Book Description
In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, critically acclaimed author Michael W. Clune (White Out) captures the part of childhood we live alone. You have been awakened. Floppy disk inserted, computer turned on, a whirring, and then this sentence, followed by a blinking cursor. So begins Suspended, the first computer game to obsess seven-year-old Michael, to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. Thirty years later he will write: "Computer games have taught me the things you can't learn from people." Gamelife is the memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes train Michael's eyes for the uncanny side of 1980s suburban Illinois. A game about pirates yields clues to the drama of cafeteria politics and locker-room hazing. And in the year of his parents' divorce, a spaceflight simulator opens a hole in reality.
Off to Be the Wizard
Author : Scott Meyer
Publisher : 47north
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9781612184715
Book Description
An io9 Can't Miss Science Fiction and Fantasy title in March 2014. Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little "tweaks" have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard. What could possibly go wrong? An American hacker in King Arthur's court, Martin must now train to become a full-fledged master of his powers, discover the truth behind the ancient wizard Merlin...and not, y'know, die or anything.
