Puzzles & Games
mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jeff Ryan [Ryan, Jeff]

THE U.S. SHORES ENDED UP BEING A TENSE PLACE TO BE IN 1993. Yamauchi was tired of seeing declining profits from the American division, which had let Sega build up ...
( Category: Game Programming October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Morgan Ramsay [Ramsay, Morgan]

In 1993, Russell Shanks, Andy Zaffron, and I started up a studio in San Diego for Sony Imagesoft, which became Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and then 989 Studios in ...
( Category: Game Programming October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:et al. & Drew Davidson [al., et & Davidson, Drew]

Discovering Uru:Hard Fun and the Sublime Pleasures of Impossible Gameplay Celia Pearce Introduction Since 2004, I have spent many hours studying players of the game Uru, a Myst-based MMOG that ...
( Category: Video & Computer Games October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Leonard Herman [Herman, Leonard]

Sega Activator The Activator was similar to Mattel’s Power Glove and Broderbund’s U-Force Controller, two peripherals that had been released for the NES in 1989. However, while the NES controllers ...
( Category: Biography & History October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-18 | Author:Bill Loguidice; Matt Barton [Barton, Bill Loguidice; Matt]

198 Chapter 14 POLE POSITION (1982): WHERE THE RASTER MEETS THE ROAD consisted of running over people (later called “gremlins”) to earn points. An otherwise utterly forgettable game, Death Race ...
( Category: Game Programming October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jordan Mechner [Mechner, Jordan]

An Uneasy Quiet October 18, 1989 Ten minutes before three a.m. I woke up and lay in bed, foggy and apprehensive. Waiting for the shaking to start. Then it shook ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Jacob Cordeiro [Cordeiro, Jacob]

Figure 5-7: Growing reeds and cacti Fortunately, sugar cane is easy to farm. Simply follow these steps: 1. Find (or make) a place that holds water. Reeds grow only near ...
( Category: Minecraft October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Drew Davidson & et al. [Davidson, Drew & al., et]

Parappa the Rapper (or, how I learned to love Rodney Alan Greenblat and Masaya Matsuura) Katherine Isbister I was living in Kyoto, Japan, doing a one-year postdoc at NTT (at ...
( Category: Video & Computer Games October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Daniel Bates [Bates, Daniel]

Note Note that we haven't said what the data at each position should be: it could be a number, or an image, or it could already be text. All we ...
( Category: Software Development October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:L. T. Marie [Marie, L. T.]

L.T. Marie had driven her a little crazy at first, but Dakota acted that way because she put other people’s feelings above her own, not because she wanted to control ...
( Category: Animals October 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:New Scientist [Scientist, New]

Beer is ‘raw’ immediately after fermentation, and any harsh sugars that are present, such as the Belgian candy used in some beers, burn the nose, while the hops taste like ...
( Category: Trivia October 1,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Duke, Annie & Vorhaus, John [Duke, Annie]

Top Pair, Multi-Way, In Position, With or Without the Lead, Untextured Board Resetting the situation, you have AQ and you raise on the button. Only now, instead of taking the ...
( Category: Poker September 30,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Steffen, Travis [Steffen, Travis]

—Alec "Traheho" Torelli I can't stress this one enough. Even though I've already covered yoga as a form of unconventional resistance training in the last chapter, its benefits do not ...
( Category: Gambling September 30,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-07-19 | Author:Flynn, Matt & Mehta, Sunny & Miller, Ed [Flynn, Matt]

Balancing Risk Versus Reward Say you are dealt in the big blind in a $5-$10 game with effective stacks of $5,050. The small blind completes, and you raise to $50. ...
( Category: Poker September 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Baggini, Julian [Baggini, Julian]

See also 1. The evil demon 28. Nightmare scenario 62. I think, therefore? 98. The experience machine 52. More or less Carol had decided to use a large slice of ...
( Category: Logic & Brain Teasers September 29,2014 )