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• Introduction - What is this book? How to use it. Universal Principles For The Design Process Design by committee The 80/20 Rule The four ways to be creative Universal Principles For Game Creation Operant conditioning - the Skinner Box Rock Paper Scissors (game theory) Volunteer's Dilemma (game theory) Memory games vs. Skill games Theories of fun Cognitive Biases - Anchoring Bias, Availability Bias, Confirmation Bias, Commision Bias Motivation via: Food/Sex/Movement/Faces/Stories/Surprise Universal Principles For Game Balancing Supply/Demand Scarcity Conspicuous Consumption Synergy Gestalt The "Strong Tie" Universal Principles For Troubleshooting Attention Vs. Perception Instant/Delayed Gratification Seven Universal Emotions Cultural Conundrums.
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Game designers spend their lives solving extraordinary problems and facing mind-bending paradoxes. It's their job to make a meticulous plan for "spontaneous fun" players will want to experience over and over again. Pressure is heaped on with demands for innovation and blockbuster status. So designers find themselves facing an abyss of problems, pressure, and possibilities, armed only with their brains and an assortment of design principles they picked up over years of experience. For the first time, 100 Principles of Game Design gathers some of the best of these big ideas into one toolkit. Seasoned designers will be glad they don't have to hold it all in their heads anymore, and beginning design students can use the book to learn the tools of the trade. When the going gets tough, everyone can turn to this book for guidance, inspiration, or just to remind them of what works. Collected from every popular school of thought in game design, these core principles are organized by theme: innovation, creation, balancing, and troubleshooting. * Includes advances from the world's leading authorities on game design, some explained by the creators themselves * A reference book of finite, individual principles for easy access, providing a jumping off point for further research * Principles originating in fields as diverse as architecture, psychiatry, and economics, but shown here as they apply to game design * Richly designed with illustrations and photos, making each principle easy to understand and memorable * Timeless approach includes feedback loops, game mechanics, prototyping, economies of scale, user-centered design, and much more Professional designers and instructors at one of the world's leading game design institutions lay out the building blocks of diverse knowledge required to design even the simplest of games.
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• SECTION 1 GENERAL PROGRAMMING
• SECTION 2 MATHEMATICS
• SECTION 3 246ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• SECTION 4 GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT
• SECTION 5 GRAPHICS DISPLAY
• SECTION 6 AUDIO PROGRAMMING APPENDIX ABOUT THE CD-ROM.
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Blazing through the excitement generated by the first volume, Game Programming Gems II is here with an entirely new set of innovative ideas, techniques, and algorithms. Game developers of all levels will find insightful tips and tools from this unique collection.Written by game programming experts, each contribution provides a hands-on solution to a programming problem, or a creative method for reducing programming time and redundancy. Edited by Mark DeLoura, Editor-In-Chief of Game Developer magazine and a group of top-notch area editors, this collection covers the major topics needed to develop a state-of-the-art game engine and provides all new coverage of audio issues. From animation and artificial intelligence to Z-buffering, lighting calculations, weather effects, curved surfaces, audio tools, multiplayer Internet gaming, music and sound effects, all of the major techniques needed to develop a competitive game engine are covered. All of the source code for each algorithm is included and can be used by advanced programmers immediately.For aspiring game programmers, the text for each algorithm explains the algorithm in detail, gives suggestions for beneficial modifications and optimizations, and includes references to related material.
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Scratch is a fun, beginner-friendly programming environment popular in schools around the world. Its playful, intuitive interface uses colorful programming blocks and cartoon sprites to make real programming more approachable. Serious Scratch Programming shows just how much you can do with Scratch and teaches you essential, universal programming concepts along the way. In Serious Scratch Programming, author Majed Marji takes you on a tour through Scratch's surprisingly powerful features to teach programming concepts like procedures, variables, loops, recursion, decision making, and lists. You will use your new-found skills to create science simulations, math projects, and even some fun arcade games! Each chapter offers a summary and practice exercises at the end to make sure the lessons stick. Scratch is an incredibly fun and easy language to learn, plus you can do some seriously potent programming with it. Serious Scratch Programming will help you get the most out of Scratch and begin your journey into the world of programming.
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A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software. Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects, which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data-an approach sometimes known as "procedural audio." Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in real time according to unpredictable events. Applications include video games, film, animation, and media in which sound is part of an interactive process. The book takes a practical, systematic approach to the subject, teaching by example and providing background information that offers a firm theoretical context for its pragmatic stance. [Many of the examples follow a pattern, beginning with a discussion of the nature and physics of a sound, proceeding through the development of models and the implementation of examples, to the final step of producing a Pure Data program for the desired sound. Different synthesis methods are discussed, analyzed, and refined throughout.] After mastering the techniques presented in Designing Sound, students will be able to build their own sound objects for use in interactive applications and other projects.
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• Preface-- 1 Introduction-- 2 The Graphics System-- 3 Renderers-- 4 Special Effects Using Shaders-- 5 Scene Graphs-- 6 Scene Graph Compilers-- 7 Memory Management-- 8 Controller-Based Animation-- 9 Spatial Sorting-- 10 Level of Detail-- 11 Terrain-- 12 Collision Detection-- 13 Physics-- 14 Object-Oriented Infrastructure-- 15 Mathematical Topics-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This title is a major revision of the international best-seller on game programming! Graphics hardware has evolved enormously in the last decade. Hardware can now be directly controlled through techniques such as shader programming, which requires an entirely new thought process of a programmer. "3D Game Engine Design, Second Edition" shows step-by-step how to make a shader-based graphics engine and how to tame the new technology. Much new material has been added, including more than twice the coverage of the essential techniques of scene graph management, as well as new methods for managing memory usage in the new generation of game consoles and portable game players. There are expanded discussions of collision detection, collision avoidance, and physics all challenging subjects for developers. It is the revision of the classic work on game engines the core of any game. It includes Wild Magic, a commercial quality game engine in source code that illustrates how to build a real-time rendering system from the lowest-level details all the way to a working game. It is fully revised and updated in 4 colors, including major new content on shader programming, physics, and memory management for the next generation game consoles and portables.
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Since 1922, "Harvard Business Review" has been a leading source of breakthrough management ideas - many of which still speak to and influence us today. "The Harvard Business Review Classics" series now offers readers the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world-and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come. Business is like war: The best combatant wins while the worst loses, right? Not necessarily. Companies can succeed spectacularly without destroying others. And they can lose miserably after competing well. Exceptional businesses win by actively shaping the game they're playing, not playing the game they find. "The Right Game" shows you how to do this - by altering who's competing, what value each player brings to the table, and which rules and tactics players use.
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• Preface.1. Mathematical Models.1.1 Applying Mathematics.1.2 The Diet Problem.1.3 The Prisoner's Dilemma.1.4 The Roles of Linear Programming and Game Theory.2 The Linear Programming Model.2. 1 History.2.2 The Blending Model.2.3 The Production Model.2.4 The Transportation Model.2.5 The Dynamic Planning Model.2.6 Summary.3. The Simplex Method.3.1 The General Problem.3.2 Linear Equations and Basic Feasible Solutions.3.3 Introduction to the Simplex Method.3.4 Theory of the Simplex Method.3.5 The Simplex Tableau and Examples.3.6 Artificial Variables.3.7 Redundant Systems.3.8 A Convergence Proof.3.9 Linear Programming and Convexity.3.10 Spreadsheet Resolution.4. Duality.4.1 Introduction to Duality.4.2 Definition of the Dual Problem.4.3 Examples and Interpretations.4.4 The Duality Theorem.4.5 The Complementary Slackness Theorem.5. Sensitivity Analysis.5.1 Examples in Sensitivity Analysis.5.2 Matrix Representation of the Simplex Algorithm.5.3 Changes in the Objective Function.5.4 Addition of a New Variable.5.5 Changes in the Constant Term Column Vector.5.6 The Dual Simplex Algorithm.5.7 Addition of a Constraint.6. Integer Programming.6.1 Introduction to Integer Programming.6.2 Models with Integer Programming Formulations.6.3 Gomory's Cutting Plane Algorithm.6.4 A Branch and Bound Algorithm.6.5 Spreadsheet Resolution.7. The Transportation Problem.7.1 A Distribution Problem.7.2 The Transportation Problem.7.3 Applications.8. Other Topics In Linear Programming.8.1 An Example Involving Uncertainty.8.2 An Example with Multiple Goals.8.3 An Example Using Decomposition.8.4 An Example in Data Envelopment Analysis.9. Two-Person, Zero-Sum Games.9.1 Introduction to Game Theory.9.2 Some Principles of Decision Making in Game Theory.9.3 Saddle Points.9.4 Mixed Strategies.9.5 The Fundamental Theorem.9.6 Computational Techniques.9.7 Games People Play.10. Other Topics in Game Theory.10.1 Utility Theory.10.2 Two-person, Non-zero-Sum Games.10.3 Noncooperative Two-Person Games.10.4 Cooperative Two-Person Games.10.5 The Axioms of Nash.10.6 An Example.A Vectors and Matrices.B An Example of Cycling.C Efficiency of the Simplex Method.D LP Assistant.E Microsoft Excel and Solver.Bibliography.Solutions to Selected Problems.Index.
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"Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory, Third Edition" includes various additions as well as improvements that have been developed over the last decade, and the most significant addition to the text involves technology. It features an introduction, discussion, and utilization of Solver, a spreadsheet software package that solves mathematical programming problems. PRT Simplex, a computer application for learning the simplex method, has been developed by co-author Gerard Keough and was designed to be used with this book.
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• Overview.- Disc-wing and spinning aircraft.- Frisbees.- Boomerangs.- Samaras.- Skipping Stones.- Planetary Applications.- Conclusions.- Appendices.- Bibliography and websites.- Index.
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More frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined. Yet these familiar flying objects have subtle and clever aerodynamic and gyrodynamic properties which are only recently being documented by wind tunnel and other studies. In common with other rotating bodies discussed in this readily accessible book, they are typically not treated in textbooks of aeronautics and the literature is scattered in a variety of places. This book develops the theme of disc-wings and spinning aerospace vehicles in parallel. Since many of the examples are recreational, anyone who enjoys these activities will likely find it profitable and enjoyable. In addition to spinning objects of various shapes, several exotic manned aircraft with disc planforms have been proposed and a prototypes built - these include a Nazi secret weapon and the De Havilland Avrocar, also discussed in the book.Boomerangs represent another category of spinning aerodynamic body whose behavior can only be understood by coupling aerodynamics with gyrodynamics. The narrative, supported by equations and graphs, explains how the shape and throw of a boomerang relates to its trajectory. The natural world presents still other examples, namely the samaras or 'seed-wings' of many tree species, which autorotate during their descent, like a helicopter whose engine has failed. The flight performance of these spinning wings directly affects the dispersal and thus the evolutionary competitiveness of the trees concerned. Samara-type configurations are also considered for instrumentation and other payload dispersal applications. In short, the book discusses a range of familiar, connected, but largely undeveloped, topics in an accessible, but complete, manner.From the reviews of the first edition: 'In his fascinating book "Spinning Flight", Ralph Lorenz provides a rich feast of examples of spinning bodies. The book is well organized. The discussion in the book should be accessible to readers with some elementary understanding of aerodynamic principles. For the expert, the book is full of open problems. Its scope is extensive. In this respect, there may be something for everyone within its attractively designed cover' - (H. K. Moffatt, Nature, Vol. 444, December, 2006). 'If you liked physics at school, then this book is for you. It concerns itself with flying objects that spin through the air, and even tells you how to impress your friends with the biomechanics of Frisbees. There is plenty of information at all levels, and the book has a wealth of detail that only an aerospace engineer like Lorenz could have come up with' - (Len Fisher, BBC Focus, February, 2007).
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The "oligopoly problem" - the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors - is one of the more persistent problems in the history of economic thought. In this book Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing. Vives begins by relating classic contributions to the field -including those of Cournot, Bertrand, Edgeworth, Chamberlin and Robinson - to modern game theory. In his discussion of basic game-theoretic tools and equilibrium, he pays particular attention to recent developments in the theory of supermodular games. The middle section of the book, an in-depth treatment of classic static models, provides specialized existence results, charactertizations of equilibria, extensions to large markets, and an analysis of comparative statics with a view toward applied work. The final chapters examine commitment issues, entry, information transmission and collusion using a variety of tools: two-stage games, the modelling of competition under asymmetric information and mechanism design theory, and the theory of repeated and dynamic games, including Markov perfect equilibrium and differential games.
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This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for deterministic continuous-time systems in economics. The theory of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is the backbone of the theory developed in the book, and chapter 2 offers a detailed review of basic concepts in the theory of ODEs, including the solution of systems of linear ODEs, state-space analysis, potential functions, and stability analysis. Following this, the book covers the main results of optimal control theory, in particular necessary and sufficient optimality conditions; game theory, with an emphasis on differential games; and the application of control-theoretic concepts to the design of economic mechanisms. Appendixes provide a mathematical review and full solutions to all end-of-chapter problems. The material is presented at three levels: single-person decision making; games, in which a group of decision makers interact strategically; and mechanism design, which is concerned with a designer's creation of an environment in which players interact to maximize the designer's objective. The book focuses on applications; the problems are an integral part of the text. It is intended for use as a textbook or reference for graduate students, teachers, and researchers interested in applications of control theory beyond its classical use in economic growth. The book will also appeal to readers interested in a modeling approach to certain practical problems involving dynamic continuous-time models.
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The text has been carefully updated for this Second Edition, including thorough revisions of the sections on sequential- and simultaneous-move games and those on voting and auctioning. This is an inviting introduction to game theory, offering students an engaging, comprehensive view of the discipline without assuming a prior knowledge of economics or complex mathematics (uses only high school algebra). Additionally, instructors will find a variety of useful pedagogical tools in the accompanying Instructor s Manual, including student exercises and suggested classroom games and experiments.".
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• Part I. Cognitive Radio Communications and Cooperation:
• 1. Introduction to cognitive radios--
• 2. Game theory for cognitive radio networks--
• 3. Markov models for dynamic spectrum allocation--
• 4. Repeated open spectrum sharing game--
• 5. Pricing game for dynamic spectrum allocation--
• 6. A multi-winner cognitive spectrum auction game--
• 7. Evolutionary cooperative spectrum sensing game--
• 8. Anti-jamming stochastic game--
• 9. Opportunistic multiple access for cognitive networks-- Part II. Resource Awareness and Learning:
• 10. Reinforcement learning for energy-aware communications--
• 11. Repeated game and learning for packet forwarding--
• 12. Dynamic pricing games for routing--
• 13. Connectivity-aware network lifetime optimization--
• 14. Connectivity-aware network maintenance and repair-- Part III. Securing Mechanism and Strategies:
• 15. Trust modeling and evaluation--
• 16. Defense against routing disruptions--
• 17. Defense against injecting traffic attacks--
• 18. Attack-resistant cooperation stimulation--
• 19. Optimal strategies for cooperation stimulation--
• 20. Belief evaluation for cooperation enforcement--
• 21. Defense against insider attacks--
• 22. Secure cooperation stimulation under noise and imperfect monitoring.
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With the rapid growth of new wireless devices and applications over the past decade, the demand for wireless radio spectrum is increasing relentlessly. The development of cognitive radio networking provides a framework for making the best possible use of limited spectrum resources, and it is revolutionising the telecommunications industry. This book presents the fundamentals of designing, implementing, and deploying cognitive radio communication and networking systems. Uniquely, it focuses on game theory and its applications to various aspects of cognitive networking. It covers in detail the core aspects of cognitive radio, including cooperation, situational awareness, learning, and security mechanisms and strategies. In addition, it provides novel, state-of-the-art concepts and recent results. This is an ideal reference for researchers, students and professionals in industry who need to learn the applications of game theory to cognitive networking.
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