Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designersis a guide for teachers and independent learners interested in the expressive potential of video game narratives and the logic of computer programming. Using Bitsy—an open source, web-based “tiny online game engine” that is especially welcoming to beginner designers—this book explores how digital platforms shape creative works. Drawing from classroom experience and proven practices from the game industry, ...

How videogames offer a new way to do journalism.Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames.Videogames are native to computers rather than a ...

From day one of the BP oil spill, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal acted as a leader in a crisis should: quickly and decisively—providing a stark contrast to President Obama, who dithered and bogged down the containment process with needless bureaucracy.InLeadership and Crisis, Jindal reveals the extent of the Obama administration's incompetence during the oil spill and shows why commonsense conservative solutions are exactly what we need to solve all of our nation's bigges...