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Game Design Essentials
An easy-to-follow primer on the fundamentals of digital game design The quickly evolving mobile market is spurring digital game creation into the stratosphere, with revenue from games exceeding that of the film industry. With this guide to the basics, you'll get in on the game of digital game design while you learn the skills required for storyboarding, character creation, environment creation, level design, programming, and testing. Teaches basic skill sets in the context of current systems, genres, and game-play styles Demonstrates how to design for different sectors within gaming including console, PC, handheld, and mobile Explores low-poly modeling for game play Addresses character and prop animation, lighting and rendering, and environment design Discusses the path from concept to product, including pre- and post-production Includes real-world scenarios and interviews with key studio and industry professionals With Game Design Essentials, you'll benefit from a general-but-thorough overview of the core art and technology fundamentals of digital game design for the 21st century.
Serial Killers Then & Now
Briar Lee Mitchell interviewed over twenty serial and rampage killers, to gain insight into their lives today. Some have been incarcerated for decades and their outlook on life, their crimes and what purpose they might have was discussed in detail with interesting and sometimes unusual results. “Care is just a word until someone like Briar comes along and gives it true life.” - Monk Steppenwolf, serving a life sentence in Michigan for killing five people in 1964 “You have extraordinary heart to what you’ve done. You’ve gone, along, into prisons and interviewed what most people would consider to be the most dangerous class of criminals and that not to trash them, but to give them a ...
The Whistlebrass Horror
Casey didn’t believe in monsters until they stole his sister. Shortly after teenage newcomer Casey Wilde arrives in the haunted town of Whistlebrass, Vermont, his little sister disappears. Finding her won’t be easy–Casey is up against a suave sociopath, a legion of living shadows, and a reptilian humanoid capable of stealing his life force and crushing him into dust. Who can Casey ask for help when no sane adult will believe his story?
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The Whistlebrass Clock People
“For every reader who enjoys fast-paced adventure and spooky mystery . . . The Whistlebrass Clock People will draw you in and keep you turning the pages” (Q.L. Pearce, author of Ghost Hunters). Hidden within the centuries old Whistlebrass clock tower is a dark secret. When the planets align and the clock strikes twelve, an ancient prophecy will be fulfilled and an evil entity will be unleashed. Can Pike, a teenage psychic, avoid capture by the police and a legion of mechanical creatures long enough to unravel the mystery? Whistlebrass faces its darkest hour, and the clock is ticking. Don’t miss the first two books in the series: The Whistlebrass Horror and The Whistlebrass Strom Watcher!
The Whistlebrass Storm Watcher
Torrential storms unearth strange Viking artifacts, drawing a wicked entity to Whistlebrass. Mudslides unleashed by the torrential rains have revealed an archeological oddity—a Viking village on the banks of Lake Wanweird. Young Casey Wilde’s excitement about the discovery soon turns to alarm when his friend appears with a Viking artifact and wild story about an axe-wielding monster. In the blink of an eye, Casey finds himself in the center of an ancient feud—and lives are stake. With the fate of his friends hanging in the balance, Casey must solve a mystery surrounding a Viking king, a colonial ghost, a carnival fortune teller, and a calculating cat named Carlisle. And it looks like another storm is on its way.
Apparitions
"The allegedly haunted 100-year-old Mallard Hotel sits on a dramatic ocean-side cliff just north of San Francisco. The modern ghost hunters of the Peter Wren Agency have been called in to determine once and for all if the paranormal events are real. Skeptical reporter Martin Stewart, along with his fiancé Seville, join the team to report on the investigation. After a series of horrific events, Seville disappears. Martin is finally convinced there might be something paranormal in the old hotel after all. To find his fiancé he soon learns he'll have to put aside mistrust and help the ghost hunters do battle with whatever is haunting the Mallard--no matter what the cost."--Page 4 of cover.
From the Torment of Dreams
Lan Agstaff joined the army to escape from the memory of a failed love affair. But on the way to his first posting in Neotra, the suspended animation chamber malfunctions–and instead of peaceful nothingness he dreams endlessly about his lost lover. By the time Lan’s ship gets to Neotra tensions have reached breaking point, making all-out war virtually inevitable. Will Lan be consumed by the flashbacks of his ex-lover or can he recover from the torment of dreams?
Dark Lights
In 1958, a hurricane wreaked havoc on Andros Island in the Bahamas. Not long after that, the Point-du-Lac logging camp mysteriously shut down when it turned into a diseased and ravaged place. Every attempt to repopulate the area with flora or fauna ended in failure. Desperate to solve this mystery, the Bahamian government asks for help from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) from the United States. In response, the EPA sends husband and wife team, James and Casey Miller, who examine the area filled with dead trees, absolutely no animal life and discover a small pit filled with the cannibalized remains of several people. James and Casey, along with a writer and, a native of the island ...
Big-Ass Shark
Millions of years ago, the deadly Megalodon shark, three times larger than our modern Great White Shark, roamed our seas, killing everything and anything in its path. Convinced it was extinct, scientists agreed the seas were safe from such a massive predator, until one surfaced off the coast of California, and our safety in or on the water was no longer such a sure thing.
