For ten thousand years, stories were frozen in time. Carved in stone. Pressed into pages. Projected onto screens. Beautiful, powerful—but ultimately static. Every tale had one version, one truth, one unchanging path. That era is over. We stand at the threshold of something unprecedented: stories that breathe. Narratives that remember. Worlds that evolve in response to those who enter them. The ancient story bible has died, and from its ashes rises the breathing archive—a living system that...

In this, the first title in Jimmy Russell's Games Console History series, we learn 101 amazing facts about Atari's seminal 2600, the first truly popular home family computer games system. The facts cover many areas, including the history, the hardware, game titles both rare and popular and some incredible information you probably never knew! Everyone from retro gamers who were there at the time to n00bz who think a PlayStation is Old School will find this excellent eBook jam packed full of...

Anyone can write a great fiction novel. That's right, ANYONE! You don't need an M.F.A, or a PhD, or ABCDEFG, you just need to know how to do a few things really well...and get lucky. But Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said: "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."So You Want to Write a Novel… was written for the many who've wanted to pursue the lofty endeavor of penning (typing) their very own opus, but for one reason or another got...

Manga animations could possibly form the greater part of animation heroes and stories given chance. Their sheer imagination and variety of characters is in itself mind-boggling. With so many possibilities, there rarely is a limit to what you can draw and call it a manga character. You could choose to draw a disfigured dragon, or you could opt to use straight cut lines to draw the masculine face. Whatever approach you take, you will always have some room to flex your muscle and skill.

These are simple solutions for solving the Shepherd Cube and Tartan Cube.

You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the puzzle and casual game genres. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for the puzzle and casual game genres and shows you how to use the right techniques to create fun and challenging experiences for your players.

Start your novel off right with this set of five classes to help expand on your initial idea and begin creating story goals.Included are clases on genres, goals, setting and more. This is the first of nine sets covering 104 weeks.

You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the adventure game genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for the adventure game genre and shows you how to use the right techniques to create fun and challenging experiences for your players.

Learn to write a complete short story in 99 words or fewer. Fun, but addictive!

A collection of 52 writing prompts for short fictional stories, one for every day of the week.These make great writing journals for creative writing class, ESL or EFL courses, or for personal use. Tell me a story about:A genie that grants wishes by taking things away from other peopleA mirror that lets you see what is happening anywhere in the world but only for 60 secondsA magic book that writes down everything you say and do, no matter how good or bad....

Will the Geeks inherit the earth?If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are texting a person or an especially ingenious chatterbot program designed to simulate intelligent human conversation?According to Richard Dooling in Rapture for the Geeks—maybe not that lon...

Troubleshooting your fictional characters? Inventing a new person for your novel? This on-the-go checklist will help you hit the ground running. More than 100 tips from an expert editor, fiction ghostwriter and writing coach whose sales exceed 4 million copies.'Nail Your Novel is like a personal session with a writing mentor.'What makes a reader fall in love with your book? Whether you write a story-based genre or literary fiction, it’s the characters. So how do yo...