Invisible Tides

Invisible Tides
Author: Mrs. Beatrice Kean (Stapleton) Seymour
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1920
Genre:
ISBN:

The Nation

The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 954
Release: 1921
Genre: Current events
ISBN:

To-day

To-day
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1920
Genre:
ISBN:

Quests

Quests
Author: Jeff Howard
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-04-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000576450

Combining theory and practice, this updated new edition provides a complete overview of how to create deep and meaningful quests for games. It uses the Unity game engine in conjunction with Fungus and other free plugins to provide an accessible entry into quest design. The book begins with an introduction to the theory and history of quests in games, before covering four theoretical components of quests: their spaces, objects, actors, and challenges. Each chapter also includes a practical section, with accompanying exercises and suggestions for the use of specific technologies for four crucial aspects of quest design: • level design • quest item creation • NPC and dialogue construction • scripting This book will be of great interest to all game designers looking to create new, innovative quests in their games. It will also appeal to new media researchers, as well as humanities scholars in the fields of mythology and depth-psychology that want to bring computer-assisted instruction into their classroom in an innovative way. The companion website includes lecture and workshop slides, and can be accessed at: www.designingquests.com

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1999-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312264747

The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including: William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel * Cory Doctorow * Jim Grimsley * Gwyneth Jones * Chris Lawson * Ian McDonald * Robert Reed * William Browning Spencer * Allen Steele * Michael Swanwick * Howard Waldrop * Cherry Wilder * Liz Williams A useful list of honorable mentions and Dozois's insightful summation of the year in sf round out this anthology, making it indispensable for anyone interested in SF today.

The Year's Best Science Fiction

The Year's Best Science Fiction
Author: Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312209630

The 21st edition of the award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.

Ecology of Marine Ports of the Black and Azov Sea Basin

Ecology of Marine Ports of the Black and Azov Sea Basin
Author: A. K. Vinogradov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2017-08-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319630628

This work examines the waters of marine ports as unique integrated aquatic ecosystems. It regards marine ports as entities comprising components of natural and anthropogenic origin, including pelagic, periphytal and benthal subsystems. Using selected Black and Azov Sea ports as examples, the book discusses the hydrodynamics and water exchange, which are weakened in ports compared with open coastal zones. It reflects consequences of the presence of hydrobionts and the accumulation of organic matter, which are promoted by the variety of hard substrata and the absence of fishery. The book is divided into five main chapters. The first chapter describes the general characteristics of the marine ports at the northern coast of the Black and Azov Seas and their shipping channels. Chapters 2 to 4 discuss the main abiotic and biotic peculiarities of the pelagial, periphytal and benthal subsystems of those marine ports, and chapter 5 deals with tropho-dynamic processes in their ecosystems. A concluding section reflects recommendations how the ecosystems of ports in non-tidal seas may be ameliorated.