Writing for the multibillion-dollar video-game industry is unlike writing for any other medium. Slay the Dragon will help you understand the challenges and offer creative solutions to writing for a medium where the audience not only demands a great story, but to be a driving force within it. Aimed at traditional writers who want to learn interactive narrative as well as game cr...(展开全部)

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them. We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and shout ...(展开全部)

Summary An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them. We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, an...(展开全部)

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them. We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and shout ...(展开全部)

Summary An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them. We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, an...(展开全部)

作者 戴维·M. 格兰茨：1942年1月11日生于美国纽约州，美国陆军退役上校，毕业于弗吉尼亚军事学院、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校、美国陆军指挥和总参学院以及国防语言学院等。1993年以美国陆军外国军事研究办公室主任身份退役，并继续担任《斯拉夫军事研究杂志》的编辑和俄罗斯联邦自然科学院成员。 乔纳森·M. 豪斯：中校，在佐治亚州巴恩斯维尔的高登学院担任教授。毕业于汉米尔顿学院，在密歇根大学获得了历史学博士学位，服现役时曾在美国境内及韩国担任指挥和参谋岗位，给参谋长联席会议做过政治军事分析，也曾在美国陆军各军校中协助指导工作。 译者 孙渤，1973年生，山东人，1994年毕业于北京理工大学飞行器工程系。家用电器高级工程师，现居广东。军事历史爱好者，业余时间长期研究苏德战争史等领域的文章和书籍，译有《泥足巨人：苏德战争前夕的苏联军队》。 赵国星，1985...(展开全部)

What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story? How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place? Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences? All of these questions and more are examined in this definitive book on inter...(展开全部)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the wi...(展开全部)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the wi...(展开全部)

巴里·施特劳斯（Barry Strauss），美国康奈尔大学古典学系和历史学系教授，研究方向为古代军事史。他撰写了多部著作，包括《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯战争》等。