Tag: Videogames

Free Download Ian Bogost, "How to Do Things with Videogames"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 081667647X, 0816676461 | PDF | pages: 193 | 1.3 mb
In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and sales figures for games are reported alongside those of books, music, and movies. They are increasingly used for purposes other than entertainment, yet debates about videogames still fork along one of two paths: accusations of debasement through violence and isolation or defensive paeans to their potential as serious cultural works. In How to Do Things with Videogames, Ian Bogost contends that such generalizations obscure the limitless possibilities offered by the medium’s ability to create complex simulated realities.

Free Download The Gnomon Workshop – Creating Foliage for Videogames SpeedTree, Maya, ZBrush, Substance & UE5 Workflow
Colin Valek | Duration: 3:29 h | Video: HVC1 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | 2,47 GB | Language: English
Learn how to create game-ready foliage assets from scratch using hand-crafted models and textures. This workshop by Senior Environment Artist Colin Valek will give you a comprehensive guide to using SpeedTree to create trees and groundcover vegetation that can be used to build lush and beautiful game environments.
This workshop is intended for intermediate-level artists with some prior knowledge of working with SpeedTree, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Designer, and Unreal Engine. Learn professional tips about the art direction of foliage assets, as well as technical considerations for using foliage in games. Also, you will go over the importance of quickly blocking placeholder assets before committing to detail work.
The chapters work through the process of sculpting and texturing highly detailed plant models using ZBrush and Maya. These plant models are then baked down onto texture atlases using Substance Designer and finally assembled into foliage assets within SpeedTree. Lastly, you’ll be given some tips on integrating and populating foliage in Unreal Engine 5.

Free Download Retro Gamer Presents – The History of Videogames – 4th Edition – 25 January 2024
English | 151 pages | PDF | 133.9 MB

Free Download Ludopolitics: Videogames against Control by Liam Mitchell
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1785354884 | 352 Pages | PDF | 10.0 MB
What can videogames tell us about the politics of contemporary technoculture, and how are designers and players responding to its impositions?

Free Download Videogames and Agency
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032288477 | 226 Pages | PDF (True) | 3.3 MB
What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How do paratextual materials reflect design intention with regards to what the player can and cannot do in a videogame? How does game design shape the possibility space for player action? Through these questions and selected case studies that include AAA and independent games alike, the book presents a unique approach to studying agency that combines game design, game studies, and game developer discourse. By doing so, the book examines what discourses around player action, as well as a game’s design can reveal about the nature of agency and videogame aesthetics.

Free Download Jon Stone, "Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames "
English | ISBN: 3110718332 | 2022 | 150 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
In recent years, poetry and video games have begun talking to – and taking from – one another in earnest. Poets, ever in pursuit of meaning, now draw inspiration from digital-interactive fantasy worlds, while video game developers aim to enrich their creations by imbuing them with poetic depth. This book investigates the phenomena of poem-game hybrids and other forms of poetic-ludic interplay, making use of both a multidisciplinary critical approach and the author’s own experiments in building and testing hybrid artefacts. What emerges is the suggestion of a future where reading and playing are no longer seen as separate endeavours, where the quests for sensory pleasure and philosophic insight are one and the same.

Free Download Making VideoGames in Godot 4 – Contra
Published 7/2023
Created by Iki Capitan
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 34 Lectures ( 6h 2m ) | Size: 3.3 GB

Free Download Paolo Ruffino, "Independent Videogames "
English | ISBN: 0367563401 | 2022 | 302 pages | EPUB | 807 KB
Independent Videogames investigates the social and cultural implications of contemporary forms of independent video game development. Through a series of case studies and theoretical investigations, it evaluates the significance of such a multi-faceted phenomenon within video game and digital cultures.

Free Download Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture"
English | ISBN: 9354356907 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations explores the gaming culture of one of the most culturally diverse and populous regions of the world-the Indian subcontinent. Building on the author’s earlier work on videogame culture in India, this book addresses issues of how discussions of equality and diversity sit within videogame studies, particularly in connection with the subcontinent, thereby presenting pioneering research on the videogame cultures of the region.