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.

Arthur was unaware of his visitors. After all, they were never real, were they?

Michael Sellers has already established Cal Fisher as an apparently inefficient but finally effective private eye and this new adventure happily continues the series.

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.

Fane Roskill, from 1920's England to Australia and New Guinea up to Japan war.

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.