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Game Anim Video Game Animation Explained

Game Anim Video Game Animation Explained

Game Anim teaches the technical and artistic fundamentals of video game animation and goes further to provide practical advice and industry insights to help you become a rounded and successful game animator. Covering every stage of game production from the animator’s perspective it is packed with the lessons learned from working on a variety of game types in both in-game and cinematic roles in animator lead and director positions. These have been successful across multiple studios regardless of team size and culture. The 2nd edition includes a new chapter on 2D and Pixel Art Animation an enhanced mocap chapter covering the latest developments in Motion Matching and even more interviews with top professionals in the field. Game Anim provides essential guidance to those looking to break into the industry and successful animators wishing to take the next step in their career. Key Features • 20 Years of Insight: Accumulated knowledge from 2 decades of experience in all areas of game animation. • The 5 Fundamentals: Reinterprets the classic 12 animation principles and sets out 5 new fundamentals for great game animation. • Animator Interviews: Notable game animators offer behind-the-scenes stories tips and advice. • Free Animation Rig: Free AZRI maya rig tutorials and other resources on the accompanying website: www. gameanim. com/book | Game Anim Video Game Animation Explained

GBP 44.99
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Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms

Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms

Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms Second Edition compiles hundreds of game mechanisms organized by category. The book can be read cover to cover and used as a reference to solve a specific design problem or for inspiration and research on new designs. This second edition collects even more mechanisms expands on and updates existing entries and includes color images. Building Blocks is a great starting point for new designers a handy guidebook for the experienced and an ideal classroom reference. Each Game Mechanisms Entry Contains: The definition of the mechanism An explanatory diagram of the mechanism Discussion of how the mechanism is used in successful games Considerations for implementing the mechanism in new designs | Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms

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Game Audio Programming 3: Principles and Practices

Game Audio Programming 3: Principles and Practices

Welcome to the third volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices—the first series of its kind dedicated to the art and science of game audio programming. This volume contains 14 chapters from some of the top game audio programmers and sound designers in the industry. Topics range across game genres (ARPG RTS FPS etc. ) and from low-level topics such as DSP to high-level topics like using influence maps for audio. The techniques in this book are targeted at game audio programmers of all abilities from newbies who are just getting into audio programming to seasoned veterans. All of the principles and practices in this book have been used in real shipping games so they are all very practical and immediately applicable. There are chapters about split-screen audio dynamic music improvisation dynamic mixing ambiences DSPs and more. This book continues the tradition of collecting modern up-to-date knowledge and wisdom about game audio programming. So whether you’ve been a game audio programmer for one year or ten years or even if you’ve just been assigned the task and are trying to figure out what it’s all about this book is for you! Key Features Cutting-edge advanced game audio programming concepts with examples from real game audio engines Includes both high-level and low-level topics Practical code examples math and diagrams that you can apply directly to your game audio engine. Guy Somberg has been programming audio engines for his entire career. From humble beginnings writing a low-level audio mixer for slot machines he quickly transitioned to writing game audio engines for all manner of games. He has written audio engines that shipped AAA games like Hellgate: London Bioshock 2 The Sims 4 and Torchlight 3 as well as smaller titles like Minion Master Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones. Guy has also given several talks at the Game Developer Conference the Audio Developer Conference and CppCon. When he’s not programming or writing game audio programming books he can be found at home reading playing video games and playing the flute. | Game Audio Programming 3: Principles and Practices

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The Game Production Toolbox

The Game Production Toolbox

The Game Production Toolbox focuses on the nuts and bolts of producing interactive content and how you can organize and support the creative technical and business efforts that are all part of interactive game development. This book isn’t going to tell you how to design a game or what technologies to use. Instead it provides techniques for and insights into managing from concept to release all the pieces that must come together in order to get a game into the hands of a player. Readers will learn about each phase of game production: prototyping defining the requirements assembling the team making the game and releasing to the players. Interviews from professional game developers give a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make a game. Key Features A framework for how to get an interactive game from concept to release including information on financing and pitching to publishers and investors. Techniques for working with the game development team to get effective prototypes and documentation to prove out game concept and mechanics. Concrete information on how to plan and execute the different aspects of game production such as audio localization testing and software ratings. Advice from industry experts on managing teams project management communicating effectively and keeping everyone happy. Information about working effectively with marketing PR and other people that are involved with the publishing and release process.

GBP 66.99
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Pattern Language for Game Design

Pattern Language for Game Design

Chris Barney’s Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students teachers and game development professionals how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series of practical rigorous exercises designers can observe and analyze the failures and successes of the games they know and love to find the deep patterns that underlie good design. From an in-depth look at Alexander’s work to a critique of pattern theory in various fields to a new approach that will challenge your knowledge and put it to work this book seeks to transform how we look at building the interactive experiences that shape us. Key Features: Background on the architectural concepts of patterns and a Pattern Language as defined in the work of Christopher Alexander including his later work on the Fifteen Properties of Wholeness and Generative Codes. Analysis of other uses of Alexander’s work in computer science and game design and the limitations of those efforts. A comprehensive set of example exercises to help the reader develop their own patterns that can be used in practical day-to-day game design tasks. Exercises that are useful to designers at all levels of experience and can be completed in any order allowing students to select exercises that match their coursework and allowing professionals to select exercises that address their real-world challenges. Discussion of common pitfalls and difficulties with the pattern derivation process. A guide for game design teachers studio leaders and university departments for curating and maintaining institutional Pattern Languages. An Interactive Pattern Language website where you can share patterns with developers throughout the world (patternlanguageforgamedesign. com). Comprehensive games reference for all games discussed in this book. Author Chris Barney is an industry veteran with more than a decade of experience designing and engineering games such as Poptropica and teaching at Northeastern University. He has spoken at conferences including GDC DevCom and PAX on topics from core game design to social justice. Seeking degrees in game design before formal game design programs existed Barney built his own undergraduate and graduate curricula out of offerings in sociology computer science and independent study. In pursuit of a broad understanding of games he has worked on projects spanning interactive theater live-action role-playing game (LARP) design board games and tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). An extensive collection of his essays of game design topics can be found on his development blog at perspectivesingamedesign. com.

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The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox continues where the Game Narrative Toolbox ended. While the later covered the basics of writing for games the Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox will cover techniques for the intermediate and professional writer. The book will cover topics such as how to adapt a novel to a game how to revive IPs and how to construct transmedia worlds. Each chapter will be written by a professional with exceptional experience in the field of the chapter. Key Features Learn from industry experts how to tackle today’s challenges in storytelling for games. A learn by example and exercise approach which was praised in the Game Narrative Toolbox. An in depth view on advanced storytelling techniques and topics as they are currently discussed and used in the gaming industry. Expand your knowledge in game writing as you learn and try yourself to design quests write romances and build worlds as you would as a writer in a game studio. Improve your own stories by learning and trying the techniques used by the professionals of game writing.

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Meaningful Game Design The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games

Meaningful Game Design The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games

This book provides readers with the tools and methods with which to create effective tabletop games. It covers the design and development process thoroughly guiding readers through the necessary mechanics messages and motivations of games that must be understood in order to build successful tabletop games including serious educational games for teaching or training. Through a range of learning activities and methodologies readers will develop an understanding of games and an appreciation for the creating and testing of game play whilst critically exploring the relationship between games motivation and learning. It includes chapters on design methodology narrative accessibility playtesting and more. This book will be of great interest to students of game design and serious game design courses. It will also appeal to designers educators and hobbyists interested in designing and developing their own tabletop games educational or otherwise. | Meaningful Game Design The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games

GBP 44.99
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Environment Art in the Game Industry A Guide to Rich and Realistic Environments Using Substance Designer

Environment Art in the Game Industry A Guide to Rich and Realistic Environments Using Substance Designer

This book explains the fundamentals of being a talented games Environment Artist by outlining the key considerations that most Environment Artists tend to forget. Focusing on the use of Substance Designer to create rich colourful and realistic environments the book shows how to improve storytelling and how to think outside the box. Following a step-by-step process to create realistic state-of-the-art materials that help bring game narratives and worlds to life this book provides a new perspective on Environment Art by covering the latest most creative industry techniques using Substance Designer. This book should appeal to new and aspiring games Environment Artists as well as those looking to increase their knowledge of Substance Designer. The final stages of this book give a sneak peek into creating foliage in the game industry. Henry Kelly is the Lead Artist at REWIND a VR and AR studio with the vision of a better future for VR and AR. | Environment Art in the Game Industry A Guide to Rich and Realistic Environments Using Substance Designer

GBP 44.99
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The Game Design Toolbox

The Game Design Toolbox

This book presents 71 practical game design tools that readers can use to solve real-world game design problems. Written to be a toolbox for game designers it offers a hands-on approach with clear and easy-to-use tools so that readers can quickly find the right solution to the problem they are facing. This book is divided into six game design phases: ideation exploration commitment problem solving balancing and tuning. Each category contains an array of relevant tools and the accompanying indexes offer suggestions for tools to use for specific problems. Support Materials for this book offer further teaching materials exercises and complementary FAQs. Written to be a practical resource this book will be a useful toolbox for junior and veteran game designers alike. | The Game Design Toolbox

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2D Game Development with Unity

2D Game Development with Unity

This book teaches beginners and aspiring game developers how to develop 2D games with Unity. Thousands of commercial games have been built with Unity. The reader will learn the complete process of 2D game development step by step. The theory behind each step is fully explained. This book contains numerous color illustrations and access to all source code and companion videos. Key Features: Fully detailed game projects from scratch. Beginners can do the steps and create games right away. No coding experience is necessary. Numerous examples take a raw beginner toward professional coding proficiency in C# and Unity. Includes a thorough introduction to Unity 2020 including 2D game development prefabs cameras animation character controllers lighting and sound. Includes a step-by-step introduction to Unity 2019. 3. Extensive coverage of GIMP Audacity and MuseScore for the creation of 2D graphics sound effects and music. All required software is free to use for any purpose including commercial applications and games. Franz Lanzinger is the owner and chief game developer of Lanzinger Studio an independent game development and music studio in Sunnyvale California. He started his career in game programming in 1982 at Atari Games Inc. where he designed and programmed the classic arcade game Crystal Castles. In 1989 he joined Tengen where he was a programmer and designer for Ms. Pac-Man and Toobin' on the NES. He co-founded Bitmasters where he designed and coded games including Rampart and Championship Pool for the NES and SNES and NCAA Final Four Basketball for the SNES and Sega Genesis. In 1996 he founded Actual Entertainment publisher and developer of the Gubble video game series. He has a B. Sc. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and attended graduate school in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former world record holder on Centipede and Burgertime. He is a professional author game developer accompanist and piano teacher. He is currently working on remaking the original Gubble game in Unity and Blender. | 2D Game Development with Unity

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Game Audio Programming Principles and Practices

Game Audio Programming Principles and Practices

Welcome to Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices! This book is the first of its kind: an entire book dedicated to the art of game audio programming. With over fifteen chapters written by some of the top game audio programmers and sound designers in the industry this book contains more knowledge and wisdom about game audio programming than any other volume in history. One of the goals of this book is to raise the general level of game audio programming expertise so it is written in a manner that is accessible to beginners while still providing valuable content for more advanced game audio programmers. Each chapter contains techniques that the authors have used in shipping games with plenty of code examples and diagrams. There are chapters on the fundamentals of audio representation and perception; advanced usage of several different audio middleware platforms (Audiokinetic Wwise CRI ADX2 and FMOD Studio); advanced topics including Open Sound Control Vector-Based Amplitude Panning and Dynamic Game Data; and more! Whether you’re an audio programmer looking for new techniques an up-and-coming game developer looking for an area to focus on or just the one who got saddled with the audio code this book has something for you. Cutting-edge advanced game audio programming concepts with examples from real games and audio enginesIncludes perspectives of both audio programmers and sound designers on working and communicating togetherCoverage not just on game audio engine design but also on implementing audio tools and working with sound designers providing a comprehensive perspective on being an audio programmer | Game Audio Programming Principles and Practices

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Game Audio Programming 4 Principles and Practices

Game Audio Programming 4 Principles and Practices

Welcome to the fourth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices – the first series of its kind dedicated to the art science and craft of game audio programming. This volume contains 17 chapters from some of the top game audio programmers in the industry and dives into subjects that apply to diverse game genres and from low-level topics such as thread-safe command buffers and pitch detection to high-level topics such as object management music systems and audio tools. With such a wide variety of topics game audio programmers of all levels will find something for them in this book. The techniques presented in this book have all been used to ship games including some large AAA titles so they are all practical and many will find their way into your audio engines. There are chapters about timed ADSRs data-driven music systems background sounds and more. This book collects a wealth of advanced knowledge and wisdom about game audio programming. If you are new to game audio programming or a seasoned veteran or even if you’ve just been assigned the task and are trying to figure out what it’s all about this book is for you! | Game Audio Programming 4 Principles and Practices

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They Create Worlds The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. I: 1971-1982

They Create Worlds The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. I: 1971-1982

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provides an in-depth analysis of the creation and evolution of the video game industry. Beginning with the advent of computers in the mid-20th century Alexander Smith’s text comprehensively highlights and examines individuals companies and market forces that have shaped the development of the video game industry around the world. Volume one places an emphasis on the emerging ideas concepts and games developed from the commencement of the budding video game art form in the 1950s and 1960s through the first commercial activity in the 1970s and early 1980s. They Create Worlds aims to build a new foundation upon which future scholars and the video game industry itself can chart new paths. Key Features: The most in-depth examination of the video game industry ever written They Create Worlds charts the technological breakthroughs design decisions and market forces in the United States Europe and East Asia that birthed a $100 billion industry. The books derive their information from rare primary sources such as little-studied trade publications personal papers collections and oral history interviews with designers and executives many of whom have never told their stories before. Spread over three volumes They Create Worlds focuses on the creative designers shrewd marketers and innovative companies that have shaped video games from their earliest days as a novelty attraction to their current status as the most important entertainment medium of the 21st Century. The books examine the formation of the video game industry in a clear narrative style that will make them useful as teaching aids in classes on the history of game design and economics but they are not being written specifically as instructional books and can be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for video game history. | They Create Worlds The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. I: 1971-1982

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The Game Narrative Toolbox

The Game Narrative Toolbox

Learn how to create compelling game storylines. Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create this all-inclusive guide on what it's like to work as a writer and narrative designer in the video game industry. From concept to final testing The Game Narrative Toolbox walks readers through what role a narrative designer plays on a development team and what the requirements are at every stage of development. Drawing on real experiences authors Tobias Heussner Toiya Kristen Finley PhD Ann Lemay and Jennifer Brandes Hepler provide invaluable advice for writing compelling player-centered stories and effective dialogue trees to help readers make the switch from writing prose or screenplay to interactive. Thoroughly revised the Second Edition includes updated content reflecting the industry’s latest developments. In addition to revised and updated chapters this new edition features two additional chapters covering more advanced topics that are applicable to the lessons learned from the original chapters. Accompanying every chapter are exercises that allow the reader to develop their own documentation outlines and game-dialogue samples for use in applying for industry jobs or developing independent projects.

GBP 52.99
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Holistic Game Development with Unity 3e An All-in-One Guide to Implementing Game Mechanics Art Design and Programming

Holistic Game Development with Unity 3e An All-in-One Guide to Implementing Game Mechanics Art Design and Programming

Master game design and digital art principles simultaneously with this all-in-one guide to creating games in the cutting-edge game engine Unity. Reworked for C# and Unity 2018 & 2019 and bursting with images and tutorials Penny de Byl’s Holistic Game Development with Unity will help the reader gain the multidisciplinary skills needed to succeed in the independent game industry. Holistic Game Development with Unity includes new coverage on Augmented Reality Networking and Virtual Reality such as the Oculus Rift. Supplementary material including instructional videos discussion forums and art assets are provided in the companion website located at www. holistic3d. com. Learn to combine the beauty of art and the functionality of programming in de Byl’s third edition for Unity game development. Key features: Art and programming in Unity the only one-stop shop for individual developers and small teams looking to tackle both tasks. Proven step-by-step tutorials show you how to design and structure an entire game in Unity with art assets. Revised to cover the Unity game engine versions 2018 and 2019. New coverage of Nav Meshes Augmented Reality Mobile Builds and Mecanim. An introduction to essential two- and three-dimensional mathematical and physics concepts. A portfolio of royalty free reusable game mechanics. Revamped and expanded accompanying website www. holistic3d. com features project source code instructional videos art assets author blog and discussion forums. Additional challenge questions and lesson plans are available online for an enhanced learning experience. | Holistic Game Development with Unity 3e An All-in-One Guide to Implementing Game Mechanics Art Design and Programming

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The Gamer's Brain How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design

The Gamer's Brain How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design

Making a successful video game is hard. Even games that are well-received at launch may fail to engage players in the long term due to issues with the user experience (UX) that they are delivering. That’s why makers of successful video games like Fortnite and Assassin’s Creed invest both time and money perfecting their UX strategy. These top video game creators know that a bad user experience can ruin the prospects for any game regardless of its budget scope or ambition. The game UX accounts for the whole experience players have with a video game from first hearing about it to navigating menus and progressing in the game. UX as a discipline offers guidelines to assist developers in creating the optimal experience they want to deliver including shipping higher quality games (whether indie triple-A or serious games) and meeting business goals - all while staying true to design vision and artistic intent. At its core UX is about understanding the gamer’s brain: understanding human capabilities and limitations to anticipate how a game will be perceived the emotions it will elicit how players will interact with it and how engaging the experience will be. This book is designed to equip readers of all levels from student to professional with cognitive science knowledge and user experience guidelines and methodologies. These insights will help readers identify the ingredients for successful and engaging video games empowering them to develop their own unique game recipe more efficiently while providing a better experience for their audience. The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design Is written by Celia Hodent - a UX expert with a PhD in psychology who has been working in the entertainment industry for over 10 years including at prominent companies such as Epic Games (Fortnite) Ubisoft and LucasArts. Major themes explored in this book: Provides an overview of how the brain learns and processes information by distilling research findings from cognitive science and psychology research in a very accessible way. Topics covered include: neuromyths perception memory attention motivation emotion and learning. Includes numerous examples from released games of how scientific knowledge translates into game design and how to use a UX framework in game development. Describes how UX can guide developers to improve the usability and the level of engagement a game provides to its target audience by using cognitive psychology knowledge implementing human-computer interaction principles and applying the scientific method (user research). Provides a practical definition of UX specifically applied to games with a unique framework. Defines the most relevant pillars for good usability (ease of use) and good engage-ability (the ability of the game to be fun and engaging) translated into a practical checklist. Covers design thinking game user research game analytics and UX strategy at both a project and studio level. This book is a practical tool that any professional game developer or student can use right away and includes the most complete overview of UX in games existing today. | The Gamer's Brain How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design

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Game Usability Advice from the Experts for Advancing UX Strategy and Practice in Videogames

Game Usability Advice from the Experts for Advancing UX Strategy and Practice in Videogames

This book introduces the basics in game usability and overall game UX mindset and techniques as well as looking at current industry best practices and trends. Fully updated for its second edition it includes practical advice on how to include usability in already tight development timelines and how to advocate for UX and communicate results to higher-ups effectively. The book begins with an introduction to UX strategy considerations for games and to UX design before moving on to cover core user research and usability techniques as well as how to fit UX practices into the business process. It provides considerations of player differences and offers strategies for inclusion as well as chapters that give platform and context specific advice. With a wealth of new interviews with industry leaders and contributions from the very best in game UX the book also includes brand new chapters on: Accessibility Mobile Game Usability Data Science Virtual and Augmented Reality Esports This book will be vital reading for all professional game developers and game UX advocates as well as those students aspiring to work in game development and game UX. | Game Usability Advice from the Experts for Advancing UX Strategy and Practice in Videogames

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Story Structure and Development A Guide for Animators VFX Artists Game Designers and Virtual Reality

Story Structure and Development A Guide for Animators VFX Artists Game Designers and Virtual Reality

Professor Craig Caldwell’s Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story. It lays out the fundamental elements principles and structure for animators designers and artists so they can incorporate these concepts in their work. As a practical guide it includes extensive insights and advice from industry professionals. Readers will learn the universal patterns of story and narrative used in today’s movies animation games and VR. With over 200 colorful images this book has been designed for visual learners and is organized to provide access to story concepts for the screen media professional and student. Readers will discover the story fundamentals referred to by every director and producer when they say It’s all about story. Key Features Consolidates into one text universal story structure used across the digital media industry Includes enormous visuals that illustrate and reinforce concepts for visual learners Organizes content for faculty to use sections in a non-linear manner Includes chapter objectives review questions and key terms to guide the reader | Story Structure and Development A Guide for Animators VFX Artists Game Designers and Virtual Reality

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Narrative Design The Craft of Writing for Games

Narrative Design The Craft of Writing for Games

Narrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided here to create lively portfolios that will help open the door to jobs in the game industry. Key features of this book: • An intimate look at the workings of AAA game development from someone who has spent decades embedded on teams at well-known companies. • An insider’s look at the game industry including advice on breaking into the industry. • Detailed instructions for creating a portfolio to demonstrate narrative design and game design skills to prospective employers. • Lessons and exercises to help students develop narrative design and game design skills. • A how-to guide for college instructors teaching classes in narrative design and game design. Detailed assignments and syllabi are included. Author Bio: Michael Breault is a 35-year industry veteran who has contributed his writing and game design skills to over 130 published games. He currently teaches narrative design and game design courses at Webster University in St. Louis. The courses he creates and teaches are based on the tasks narrative designers and game designers undertake every day while developing games. These classes provide his students with a real-world view of the work they will be doing as writers and designers in the game industry. | Narrative Design The Craft of Writing for Games

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Set Valued Mappings with Applications in Nonlinear Analysis

Set Valued Mappings with Applications in Nonlinear Analysis

Interest in the mathematical analysis of multi-functions has increased rapidly over the past thirty years partly because of its applications in fields such as biology control theory and optimization economics game theory and physics. Set Valued Mappings with Applications to Nonlinear Analysis contains 29 research articles from leading mathematicians in this area. The contributors were invited to submit papers on topics such as integral inclusion ordinary and partial differential inclusions fixed point theorems boundary value problems and optimal control. This collection will be of interest to researchers in analysis and will pave the way for the creation of new mathematics in the future. | Set Valued Mappings with Applications in Nonlinear Analysis

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Handbook of Visual Optics Two-Volume Set

Handbook of Visual Optics Two-Volume Set

Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction integrating expert knowledge from physics medicine biology psychology and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing devices and techniques for visual correction and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception. | Handbook of Visual Optics Two-Volume Set

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Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

Low-level river crossings including culverts are important for delivering a range of valuable socioeconomic services including transportation and hydrological control. These structures are also known to have negative impacts on freshwater river system morphology and ecology including the blockage of upstream fish passage particularly small-body-mass fish species. Given the enormous environmental problems created by road crossings new hydraulic engineering guidelines are proposed for fish-friendly multi-cell box culvert designs. The focus of these guidelines is on smooth box culverts without appurtenance with a novel approach based upon three basic concepts: (I) the culvert design is optimized for fish passage for small to medium water discharges and for flood capacity for larger discharges (II) low-velocity zones are provided along the wetted perimeter in the culvert barrel and quantified in terms of a fraction of the wetted flow area where the local longitudinal velocity is less than a characteristic fish speed linked to swimming performances of targeted fish species and (III) the culvert barrel is smooth without any other form of boundary treatment and appurtenance. The present monograph develops a number of practical considerations in particular relevant to box culvert operations for less-than-design discharges. It is argued that upstream fish passage capabilities would imply a revised approach to maintenance in part linked to the targeted fish species. This reference work is authored for civil and environmental engineers as well as biology and ecology scientists interested in culvert design. While the book is aimed to professionals the material is also lectured in postgraduate courses and in professional short courses. | Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

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Medical Image Processing Advanced Fuzzy Set Theoretic Techniques

Medical Image Processing Advanced Fuzzy Set Theoretic Techniques

Medical image analysis using advanced fuzzy set theoretic techniques is an exciting and dynamic branch of image processing. Since the introduction of fuzzy set theory there has been an explosion of interest in advanced fuzzy set theories—such as intuitionistic fuzzy and Type II fuzzy set—that represent uncertainty in a better way. Medical Image Processing: Advanced Fuzzy Set Theoretic Techniques deals with the application of intuitionistic fuzzy and Type II fuzzy set theories for medical image analysis. Designed for graduate and doctorate students this higher-level text:Provides a brief introduction to advanced fuzzy set theory fuzzy/intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators and distance/similarity measuresCovers medical image enhancement using advanced fuzzy sets including MATLAB®-based examples to increase contrast of the imagesDescribes intuitionistic fuzzy and Type II fuzzy thresholding techniques that separate different regions/leukocyte types/abnormal lesionsDemonstrates the clustering of unwanted lesions/regions even in the presence of noise by applying intuitionistic fuzzy clusteringHighlights the edges of poorly illuminated images and uses intuitionistic fuzzy edge detection to find the edges of different regionsDefines fuzzy mathematical morphology and explores its application using the Lukasiewicz operator t-norms and t-conormsMedical Image Processing: Advanced Fuzzy Set Theoretic Techniques is useful not only for students but also for teachers engineers scientists and those interested in the field of medical image analysis. A basic knowledge of fuzzy set is required along with a solid understanding of mathematics and image processing. | Medical Image Processing Advanced Fuzzy Set Theoretic Techniques

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Load Testing of Bridges: Two Volume Set

Load Testing of Bridges: Two Volume Set

Load Testing of Bridges featuring contributions from almost fifty authors from around the world across two interrelated volumes deals with the practical aspects the scientific developments and the international views on the topic of load testing of bridges. Volume 12 Load Testing of Bridges: Current practice and Diagnostic Load Testing starts with a background to bridge load testing including the historical perspectives and evolutions and the current codes and guidelines that are governing in countries around the world. The second part of the book deals with preparation execution and post-processing of load tests on bridges. The third part focuses on diagnostic load testing of bridges. Volume 13 Load Testing of Bridges: Proof Load Testing and the Future of Load Testing focuses first on proof load testing of bridges. It discusses the specific aspects of proof load testing during the preparation execution and post-processing of such a test (Part 1). The second part covers the testing of buildings. The third part discusses novel ideas regarding measurement techniques used for load testing. Methods using non-contact sensors such as photography- and video-based measurement techniques are discussed. The fourth part discusses load testing in the framework of reliability-based decision-making and in the framework of a bridge management program. The final part of the book summarizes the knowledge presented across the two volumes as well as the remaining open questions for research and provides practical recommendations for engineers carrying out load tests. This work will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of civil/structural engineering practicing engineers and road authorities worldwide. | Load Testing of Bridges: Two Volume Set

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A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

This is a unique extensively illustrated dictionary of terms people events and dates spanning the entire history of medicine. It is a monumental work of scholarship totaling some 700 double-column pages with a large number of rare and exceptional illustrations from many original sources painstakingly compiled over years of far-searching inquiry involving more than 5 000 books and hundreds of journals. It is a major resource of hard-to-find information about notable medical figures instruments conditions procedures and dates and a storehouse of captivating anecdotes and background material. The book contains a wealth of material for concise historical introductions to a broad range of subjects and is the sine qua non authority on both well and little known facts of medical history. With this single volume-an unprecedented tour de force representing more than 7 000 hours of exhaustive research-clinicians and researchers from all fields of medicine can quickly and easily find authoritative detailed definitions and descriptions with dates of medical terms and of the people and events contributing to the development of medicine from earliest times to the present day. The entries range widely from such as abacterial pyuria to zygote including Latin and Greek origins of terms compact biographies with dates eponymic information of all kinds and rarely seen drawings and photographs of antique medical instruments and little-known conditions. | A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

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