Gamer Girls

Gamer Girls
Author: Mary Kenney
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0762474556

Discover the women behind the video games we love—the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built—and how they changed the industry forever. Women have always made video games, from the 1960s and the first-of-its-kind, projector-based Sumerian Game to the blockbuster Uncharted games that defined the early 2000s. Women have been behind the writing, design, scores, and engines that power one of the most influential industries out there. In Gamer Girls, now you can explore the stories of 25 of those women. Bursting with bold artwork, easy-to-read profiles, and real-life stories of the women working on games like Centipede, Final Fantasy, Halo, and more, this dynamic illustrated book shows what a huge role women have played—and will continue to play—in the creation of video games. With additional sidebars about other influential women in the industry, as well as a glossary and additional resources page, Gamer Girls offers a look into the work and lives of influential pixel queens such as: Roberta Williams (one of the creators of the adventure genre) Mabel Addis Mergardt (the first person to write a video game) Muriel Tramis (the French "knight" of video games) Keiko Erikawa (creator of the otome genre) Yoko Shimomura (composer for Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts) Rebecca Heineman (first national video game tournament champion) Danielle Bunten Berry (creator of M.U.L.E. and early advocate for multiplayer games) and more! Whether you’re a gamer girl who plays video games, a gamer girl who makes video games, or a parent raising a gamer girl, this entertaining, inspiring book will have you itching to pick up a controller or create your own video games!

Gamer Chicks: Feminized Gamer Boys

Gamer Chicks: Feminized Gamer Boys
Author: Nikki Crescent
Publisher: Princess Publishing
Total Pages: 47
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Dan and Travis have just started playing the massively popular online video game, Lands of Eluria. Just a few weeks into their in-game adventures, they realize how easy it is to trick other players into giving them gold and items by pretending to be women. As the weeks go by, their little charade reaches all-new levels, even seeping into their real lives. Besides, if their scheme works on men in video games, why wouldn’t it work on men in real life?

Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play

Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play
Author: Meagan Marie
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0744019931

Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play is a celebration of female accomplishments in the video game industry, ranging from high-level executives to programmers to cosplayers. This insightful and celebratory book highlights women who helped to establish the industry, women who disrupted it, women who fight to diversify it, and young women who will someday lead it. Featuring household names and unsung heroes, each individual profiled is a pioneer in their own right. Key features in this book include: *100 Professionals of Play: Interviews and Special Features with 100 diverse and prominent women highlighting their impact on the gaming industry in the fields of design, programming, animation, marketing, voiceover, and many more. *Pro Tips: Practical and anecdotal advice from industry professionals for young adults working toward a career in the video game industry. *Essays: Short essays covering various topics affecting women in gaming related careers, including "Difficult Women: The Importance of Female Characters Who Go Beyond Being Strong," "NPC: On Being Unseen in the Game Dev Community," and "Motherhood and Gaming: How Motherhood Can Help Rather Than Hinder a Career." *"A Day in the Life of" Features: An inside look at a typical day in the gaming industry across several vocations, including a streamer, a voice actor, and many more.

Gamer Girls: Monster Village

Gamer Girls: Monster Village
Author: Andrea Towers
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524886270

Gamer Girls are four besties who prove that girls can game! But when a new game comes out, it's not a hit with everyone. Maybe they should stick to video game battles instead of middle school arguments! Celia, Natalie, Lucy, and Jess are the Gamer Girls—four gamers devoted to showing that girls can game, too. They stream together every Friday night and they’re also BFFs. Celia is the artsy, creative one of the group, so it’s no surprise when she starts designing merch for their new club. But when she falls in love with a new, cozy game called Monster Village, it’s a far cry from her friends’ action-packed battle royales. Can the Gamer Girls find common ground, or is their new club doomed? In this second illustrated book of the all-new series, Gamer Girls,four friends navigate the video game world and the middle school world . . . if only they could solve drama like defeating monsters! This series is perfect for teens and tween readers who love video games.

Gamer Girls: Out of Control

Gamer Girls: Out of Control
Author: Andrea Towers
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524894117

The Gamer Girls love playing their newest racing video game, Fast Pursuit Horizon, together. But what happens when Lucy's cousin comes to visit and throws every thing out of control? This is the third book in the illustrated Gamer Girls series! Lucy is the newest member of the Gamer Girls. She loves her new school, her family, and her friends, but she misses her old life in California, too. After unsuccessfully trying to convince her parents to let her visit California, they decide to bring her aunt and cousin Jordan to HER! +10 XP for awesome parents. Unfortunately, Jordan's presence causes a stir with the Gamer Girls . . . suddenly, like Lucy's race car in her newest video game obsession Fast Pursuit Horizon, she feels totally OUT OF CONTROL! In this third book of the series Gamer Girls, four friends navigate the video game world and the middle school world . . . if only they could solve drama as easily as they defeat monsters! This series is perfect for readers who love video games. Out of Control includes 25 black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Gamer Girls: Gnat vs. Spyder

Gamer Girls: Gnat vs. Spyder
Author: Andrea Towers
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524886157

Thirteen-year-old Natalie lives a double life. By day, she’s an average eighth grader at Golden Trails Middle. At night, she’s Gnat112, a streamer for her favorite video game, Alienlord. But when the new girl moves in next door, will Natalie's double life be revealed? Natalie has a secret. She's a gamer. By day, Natalie is an average eighth grade student. At night, she's Gnat112! Living a double life is hard . . . and keeping a secret from your friends is even harder. In this illustrated middle grade book (the first of an all-new series, Gamer Girls), Natalie and her three BFFs learn to navigate the gamer world together, one girl at a time. This series is a great read for gamers and gamer enthusiasts of all kinds. Plus, there's the occasional middle school drama . . . if only Natalie could battle math teachers like video game aliens!

Nuklear Age

Nuklear Age
Author: Brian Clevinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780595780686

This is just another one of those stories with killer robots, a giant monster from beyond time, evil toys, a mind control plot, sub-orbital death beams, kidnappers, bad movies, superpowered thugs, kidnapping, a megalomaniacal usurper, a maniacal genius hellbent on world domination, and an apocalypse. Not all at once, though. I mean, really, could you imagine coordinating the fight scene? Or reading it? You'd have to take notes just to keep track of who hit what and why.

Becoming Gamer Girls: A 4-Book Gender Swap TG Romance Bundle

Becoming Gamer Girls: A 4-Book Gender Swap TG Romance Bundle
Author: Alyson Belle
Publisher: Alyson Belle Productions
Total Pages: 205
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

These games are so smoking hot that the players win even when they lose… From their first thrilling encounters to their wildest power fantasies, this fun and hilarious collection of four steamy titles features guys transforming into gorgeous young women and having the adventure of a lifetime in exciting and surreal situations inspired by some of your favorite games and media! With over 400 pages of humorous and familiar gender bending romance, you’re sure to be up reading this into the late, late hours of the night. In Fallout Girl, billionaire business mogul Killian Black attempts to survive a nuclear war by using his futuristic backup cloning technology. But when he wakes up years later in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland as a female clone half his original age, he finds himself trapped in an unfamiliar and feminine body, desperate for help and with nowhere to turn. When a band of savage raiders captures him for their own twisted designs, Killian begins to wonder if he might not have preferred being alone after all… In Slayer Swapped, Alex hunts vampires with his friend Nadine until an interrupted cultist ritual sends some surprising magic Alex’s way, and he suddenly finds himself with a few new assets at his disposal: supernatural strength, blinding speed, and a smoking-hot body. There’s just one problem: it’s a female body, and even worse, he’s stuck in it! Can Alex—now Xan—learn to use his gorgeous new body to defeat the evil vampire Diablo at his own terrifying games? In Dungeons and Drag, Andy Price is an average, nerdy gamer who likes to roleplay busty, Charisma-heavy girls in Dungeons and Dragons with his three best friends. But when they get sucked into a magical fantasy realm where they're forced to play as their own characters, it’s not so funny anymore! Can he beat the module's challenges and rescue his friends with all of the… erm, “assets”… at his disposal, or will he lose his life while stuck in the helpless body of his busty sorceress? In the BONUS book Ready Player Fun, author A.V. Kern takes us on a hilarious and raunchy romp in this steamy and silly full-length gender-swapped spoof of the bestselling Ready Player One: The only time the young, freedom-loving, 1980s pop culture-obsessed Bowie Jackson really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual, hyper-dirty utopia known as the O-Face, where he plays as his gorgeous in-game alter ego Felicia McFly! Can Bowie team up with his pals Sherm the Worm, Ap0ll0, and W33b to unlock the puzzles of the O-Face and defeat the appallingly uptight Roger Dodger and his Cult of Real Reality once and for all? With this much steamy, thrilling, and hilariously fun gamer content, what are you waiting for? Get it today! Full-Length books in this 400+ page collection: - Fallout Girl by Alyson Belle - Slayer Swapped by Alyson Belle - Dungeons and Drag by Alyson Belle - Ready Player Fun by A.V. Kern

I'm Not a Geek I'm a Gamer Girl

I'm Not a Geek I'm a Gamer Girl
Author: Gamer Girl Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2019-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781077469839

This notebook is specifically for Gamer Girls. High-quality college ruled paper provides space for writing, doodling, or other record keeping. This notebook is 8 1/2 by 11, perfect for schoolwork, homework or just overall bragging rights, to show your friends that you aren't a geek, you are a gamer girl. The front will be glossy to show the world who you are.

The Indie Game Developer Handbook

The Indie Game Developer Handbook
Author: Richard Hill-Whittall
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1317573641

The indie game developer’s complete guide to running a studio. The climate for the games industry has never been hotter, and this is only set to continue as the marketplace for tablets, consoles and phones grow. Seemingly every day there is a story of how a successful app or game has earned thousands of downloads and revenue. As the market size increases, so does the number of people developing and looking to develop their own app or game to publish. The Indie Game Developer Handbook covers every aspect of running a game development studio—from the initial creation of the game through to completion, release and beyond. Accessible and complete guide to many aspects of running a game development studio from funding and development through QA, publishing, marketing, and more. Provides a useful knowledge base and help to support the learning process of running an indie development studio in an honest, approachable and easy to understand way. Case studies, interviews from other studies and industry professionals grant an first-hand look into the world of indie game development