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The Game Maker's Apprentice has to be one of my most eagerly anticipated Computer Book purchases for quite sometime. The presentation that is fabulous great usage of terminology, really makes it a joy to learn. Each chapter guides you through gently, to experience more confidence into producing your own game or project. Each page is colourful and also the beautiful pictures brings items to life. The book is combined with a CD that is great all the examples, resources and Game Maker it self, which is truly easy to get into. Within no right time at all, you'll get used to it's user interface and workings. The tutorials start you off aided by the principles and progressively provide you with to the Game that is wonderfully powerful Maker (GML). Therefore not only can you create games making use of a Drag 'n' Drop interface, you can additionally use a powerful program coding language also. All with this is roofed within the unregistered variation, but by paying an ever ...

This book is good. If you're like me, an important part of your childhood revolved around saving princesses and hitting up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B. This book, CONSOLE WARS, brings it all back. And then some. Word of warning: this book is hefty. Weighing in at 550 pages, this might be a good chunk of verbiage half that is covering decade of video gaming history. Is the journey worth every penny? Hell yeah! Did you know the Donkey Kong game was designed to be a Popeye the Sailorman game? How about Tom Hanks being refused for the Mario film? And, would be the rumors true: did Michael Jackson write music for Sonic 3? There's a ton of information packed in to the book. Every time I became lured to skim ahead, something else caught my attention. The author, Blake Harris, weaves the discussion and happenings that he collected from over 200 interviews into an interesting narrative that comes from all directions of the industry. I happened to be also particularly in...

Video gaming has always been an part that is enormous of life. Some of my fondest childhood memories were formed with a controller at your fingertips. Back in those days video games were aesthetically limited by the processing energy of that time period. No fictional universe had been explored before despite that, I was still able to have rich and immersive story experiences as I dove into exciting new worlds in ways. As I spent my youth, so did gaming. Now the medium permits beautiful artistic and artwork that is audio compliment the stories that designers are attempting to tell. This book does a wonderful job of chronicling that transition. With stunning visuals and developer/designer that is highly insightful, I have always been able to flip through and be consistently amazed at the revolution that is taking place each day on the market. Beyond education, the book has changed the way in which I game. Since picking it up I find myself appreciating the games I play more than I ever th...

McGonigal has written a fun and readable book. She has found a niche here -- the concept that game titles express our best selves -- and her enthusiasm on the subject is downright infectious. I kept convinced that this woman is some of those people in the exact middle of her social network. One particular people that convinces her friends to get out of the house and attempt new, quirky, interesting things. She makes life fun by simply making it a casino game. It really is very hard to not ever get caught up inside her enthusiasm. There's two sides for this enthusiasm. First of all, she has was able to convince people, on a grand scale, that video games may be a force once and for all. She has actually gone out and done items to reform the way in which we think of video games by creating ones that tap the potential to be beneficial in the planet. She and game designers like her may well be a force that sees this grand idea through to the end. Having said that, there's a nagging ...

"Guinness World Records 2015 Gamer's Edition" is new, eighth annual edition – a much younger brother - of Guinness World Record books which for its subject have all the articles and news related to games and gamers. It's unnecessary to describe the premise of Guinness Book of Records, while this spin edition focused on games is an interesting branch of original idea delivering various entertaining trivia and various records pertaining to everlasting but still growing gaming community which brings together all the generations. Besides somehow ordinary game records such as for example biggest player gatherings or longest times spent on playing various games, a reader/gamer within book covers will discover many unusual records such as for instance building associated with the largest game controller or where and when in one single place most people met dressed as some game characters. Besides records and achievements sorted in innovative way, on book pages can be located...

At first whenever I had this book I was thinking it might be just a bullet listing of chronological events that were held in the video gaming industry, since that is how the beginning of the book is outlined. (Kindle edition) BUT and that's a big but - Steve dives into more of the annals of this enterprise of this evolution associated with the video gaming movement and we also because the reader are awakened through his words. Great job and a fine addition to anyone's library that is enthusiastic about this sort of industry. Seriously any video gamer who has a passion for history will cherish this book. As a vintage gamer, i must say i remember nearly all of those moments but didn't knew how exactly it began.   Pro: Perfect for gamers Nice interviews (Comments) Quite long   Cons: It could be great if it included some pics or at least links If you’re looking for top recommended product, then The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craz...

This book is very good. I was raised in the 80s since I have came to be in 1981. Video gaming have always played a role during my life but mainly up through my early 20s. I still own and play the latest games (X-box One) but actual life gives me little time. Regardless of this, I love to carry on with with a few video game news, donate to magazines, etc. These activities have waned considerably within the last few year or two but nevertheless I like video game history and a book such as this is right up my alley. I will take my time reading it in small 5-20 minute sessions (i will not go into any longer detail than that) and there's a huge amount of information to read. A whole lot i shall likely skip so I would ike to arrive at my review to spell out why and the thing I like. What I Love: 1) Everyone loves all pages and posts specialized in almost every console. They provide back stories on development, provide images and even factoids in the pages. It's all great stuff but mi...