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In Advanced Game Design, pioneering game designer and instructor
Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong
theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to
think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce
better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers
offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design
best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each
other, helping game designers understand what they are trying to
accomplish and the best ways to achieve it. Drawing on 20+ years of
experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching
game design, Sellers explains: What games are, and how systems
thinking can help you think about them more clearly How to
systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun What you
can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks How to create
gameplay and core loops How to design the entire player experience,
and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that
experience How to capture your game’s “big idea” and Unique
Selling Proposition How to establish high-level and background
design and translate it into detailed design How to build,
playtest, and iterate early prototypes How to build your game
design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed
Written by a native daughter of the Visayas, Philippines, in the
aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan's devastation of the Philippines, this
touching memoir tells the story of what it was like growing up in
the tiny fishing village of Guinob-an, in Eastern Samar,
Philippines during the 1970's when there was no electricity, no
running water and people lived a simple, beautiful life of fishing
and coconut farming. The youngest of twelve children and the
daughter of a native fisherman, Lorena Llevado raced down to the
beach every day to meet her father when he would return from
fishing; she walked with her mother up into the jungle to the
family coconut plot; she would clamber into guava trees on the
forty-five minute walk to school to gather her snacks for the day.
Life turned adventurous when the war between the Philippine
military and communist insurgents came to town, forcing the family
to evacuate to remote Homonhon island where they lived off the sea
and land for a year. The book is a treasure of detailed,
emotionally charged memories of a way of life that should be
remembered with delight.
In this spine tingling collection of supernatural stories, author,
sensitive and researcher Shawn Sellers shares some of his team's
encounters while investigating the paranormal. The author narrates
the details of many strange happenings, including ghosts, demons,
historical, folklore, spooky legends, mysterious creatures, and
many more strange tales. Sellers provides accurate and reliable
reference, while offering explanation based on current theories in
the paranormal field and his own opinions.
Jack Bowes's life was perfect until a cancer was discovered.
Further discoveries sully his relationship with his wife to be as
stories of rape and incest unfold. Scandal follows. Jack escapes
the publicity in the tropics where sexual and political pressures
complicated his life further.
Fane Roskill, from 1920's England to Australia and New Guinea up to
Japan war.
Michael Sellers has already established Cal Fisher as an apparently
inefficient but finally effective private eye and this new
adventure happily continues the series.
Arthur was unaware of his visitors. After all, they were never
real, were they?
Lady Selve is determined to prevent her daughter Alexandra giving
the family inheritance to a religious sect so employs Cal to
persuade her otherwise. As Cal becomes embroiled in the life of the
sect he discovers its sinister side.
Murder, mistresses and malt whisky. Counterfeiting, illegal drugs
and arson. Islands and Highlands. Cal Fisher is a laid back and
dogged private detective. The ingenious plot continues Cal's jaunt
in an unorthodox and hazardous world. Cheers!
In this extraordinarily frank and affectionate account of his
father's life, Michael Sellers, along with the help of his sister
Sarah and half-sister Victoria, tells the story of one of the great
comic geniuses of our time in a way that nobody else could tell it.
Sellers emerges as a jealous and intolerant husband, as an actor
who could never be satisfied with his own performance, and as a
father who made impossible demands on his family. But in spite of
this he was loved by millions all over the world, not least by his
children who loved him tirelessly until the end. This is an
exceptional and moving book of quite exceptional human interest and
a heartrending reminder of the price paid for genius.
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