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  • Uncertainty in Games

    par Greg Costikyan ...
    Collections series Playful Thinking
    How uncertainty in games—from D&D and Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors—engages players and shapes play experiences.In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • You Are Not a Gadget

    par Jaron Lanier ...
    A NATIONAL BESTSELLERA programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Rules of Play

    Game Design Fundamentals

    par Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    Gain a deeper understanding of games and game design through 18 pioneering frameworks—with examples from board games, computer games, video games, and more.As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Everything Bad is Good for You

    How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

    par Steven Johnson ...
    **Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification cultureFrom the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted**In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • What to Think About Machines That Think

    Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

    par John Brockman ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Edge Question Series
    Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    par Jerry Kaplan ...
    Collections series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the ... En savoir plus

    $9.59 CAD

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  • Designing Games

    A Guide to Engineering Experiences

    par Tynan Sylvester ...
    Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences - a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Rise of the Videogame Zinesters

    How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives,and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form

    par Anna Anthropy ...
    "Anna Anthropy is a key personality in the ongoing paradigm shift that is slowly changing the way videogames are understood, by creators and players, and by the wider culture."—Patrick Alexander, Eegra.com"Equal parts autobiography, ethnography, and how-to manual, this book concisely makes the case for the unique power of 'zinester' games."—Adam Parrish, NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Persuasive Games

    The Expressive Power of Videogames

    par Ian Bogost ...
    An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Writing Great Books for Young Adults

    Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Landing a Publishing Deal

    par Regina Brooks ...
    From a top young adult literary agent, the only guide on how to write for young adultsWith an 87 percent increase in the number of titles published in the last two years, the young adult market is one of the healthiest segments in the industry. Despite this, little has been written to help authors hone their craft to truly connect with this audience. Writing Great Books for Young Adults gives ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Game Design

    How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish

    par Lewis Pulsipher ...
    Many aspiring game designers have crippling misconceptions about the process involved in creating a game from scratch, believing a "big idea" is all that is needed to get started. But game design requires action as well as thought, and proper training and practice to do so skillfully. In this indispensible guide, a published commercial game designer and longtime teacher offers practical ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence

    par Stuart Armstrong ...
    What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Forget lumbering Terminators. The power of an artificial intelligence (AI) comes from its intelligence, not physical strength and laser guns. Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest but because we're the smartest. When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be handing them the steering wheel. What promises ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus