Introduction to Game Systems Design (Developer's Library)
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0137440847| 384 pages | epub | 34.22 MB
As games grow more complex and gamers expectations soar, the discipline of game systems design becomes ever more important. Game systems designers plan a games rules and balance, its characters attributes, most of its data, and how its AI, weapons, and objects work and interact.Introduction to Game Systems Designis the first complete beginners guide to this crucial discipline. Writing for all aspiring game professionals, even those with absolutely no experience, leading game designer and instructor Dax Gazaway presents a step-by-step, hands-on approach to designing game systems with industry-standard tools. Drawing on his experience building AAA-level game systems (including games in the Star Wars and Marvel franchises), Gazaway covers all this, and more:
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Images of War in Contemporary Art Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media
Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media by Uroš Cvoro, Kit Messham-Muir
English | ISBN: 1350227331 | 296 pages | EPUB | September 9, 2021 | 7.49 Mb
In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uroš Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical tropes of trauma, affect, and emotion that have determined how we think of images of war and terror for the last 20 years. Through analyses of visual culture from contemporary "war art" to the meme wars, they argue that the art that most effectively challenges the ethics and aesthetics of war and terror today is that which disrupts this flow-art that makes alternative perceptions of wartime both visible and possible.