Virtual Game

This book is aimed at giving pool players the mental skills to conquer their inner game, improve their pool game, and take them to higher levels of play. Topics include Mental Skills of Successful Athletes, Awareness, Positive Thinking, Performance Anxiety, Focus, Visualization, Self-Criticism, Learn By Feel, Winning-Losing, Goal Setting, Slumps, Consistency, Motivation, Confidence, Big Game Pressure, Physical Exercise, Mental Toughness, Decision Making, Practice, Strategies, Pool Journal, Competing, Good Sportsmanship, Post Match Learning, Mental Training Plan, Pro Player Insights, and ...

FBI Agent Chloe Reid has spent her career hunting the worst kind of predators—killers who thrive in the shadows, who weave deception into their very existence. But when she takes on the case of Roland Hayes, a charismatic and ruthless murderer, she soon realizes she’s chasing more than just a man. She’s chasing a ghost. Every step she takes leads her deeper into a labyrinth of hidden tunnels, forgotten institutions, and a past that was never meant to be uncovered. Roland isn’t just a killer—he’s a creation, a weapon shaped by a secret program designed to break minds and rebuild ...

**Extreme Content Warning: Reader Beware** Two brutal killers. One bloody game. ARE YOU READY TO PLAY? I dare you... Hello. I’m David. But that’s not my only name. The media call me The London Strangler . . . and I’ve been terrorising this city for years. But the thing is: I’m getting bored. Murder’s a lonely game and I need someone to play with. Now I think I’ve found the perfect partner. Someone I know well. Someone I trust. Someone who has a secret as dark as my own - a secret I know he’ll kill to keep hidden, whether he wants to or not . . . It’s killer vs killer in this...

The creative process for designing a playful structure applicable to a board game, video game, gamified system, gamification, edutainment, and art games, among others. PLAYFUL STRUCTURE - A GAME DESIGN METHODOLOGY By applying the five essential elements of playful structure (satisfying desires and needs, a progression system, a scalable challenge, objectives, and a reward system), it is possible to analyze a game mechanism, solve gameplay problems, and make a product more likely to appeal to and retain people. The methodology can be applied to video games, board games, role-playing games, ...

Andrew Pelman, CEO of Oivor Entertainment, the makers of the popular Rowdy Raptors video game, is awed when he is befriended by reclusive billionaire, Irwin Blackstone, head of Blackstone Holdings. Over time, as friendship, and trust, develop, Blackstone tells Pelman about a new realm of gaming he is creating, all while remaining vague and swearing Pelman to secrecy. Much to Pelman’s delight, Blackstone suggests he, and Oivor, could be involved once the prototype is complete. The day comes when Blackstone invites Pelman, his top managers and developers, to an undisclosed location to ...

A Dungeon Core Harem LitRPG Saga He died coding. Now he builds worlds—with power fueled by love. Marcus Chen was just another burned-out developer until one fatal all-nighter rewrote his destiny. Waking in a shattered dimension as a Realm Weaver Core—a rare Dungeon Core variant—he gains control over fragmented realities and the power to shape a new sanctuary from scratch. But strength in this world doesn't come from grinding alone. Here, connection is power. As Marcus bonds with powerful women like Lyanna, a stranded warrior with her own mysterious past, he unlocks combat upgrades, ...

A Step-by-Step Master Class in Indie Game Development, from the Creator of the Emmy® Winning Neverwinter Nights™ Honors for Don Daglow's From Dream to Delivery books: Winner, 2019 Independent Press Book Awards Winner, Kirkus Top 100 Indie Books of 2019 Finalist, 2020 Top Shelf Book Awards Finalist, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, Book Excellence Awards "Don Daglow has survived 40+ years creating games and always retained his positive attitude. Learn from the master." – Jeff Braun, ...

Monsters Unleashed - where you catch virtual-reality monsters on your cellphone - is one of the hottest mobile games around, and Bex and Charlie just can't stop playing. They even check out an old map in Charlie's grandfather's attic in hopes of discovering some forgotten places in town where the rarest monsters might hide. But they find a strange machine up there, too, and after Charlie switches it on, the wifi goes down...and Bex's entire catalog of monsters vanishes!

The True Adventures of an Alaska Sourdough in the Greatest Big-Game Country on Earth, the Upper Yukon. Major Nevill Armstrong was the first civilized man to set foot in the Macmillan River wilderness on the Upper Yukon. On a prospecting trip there in 1905 with another sourdough during a 16-month prospecting trip turned survival ordeal, fell in love with that brutal country 300 miles from the nearest post.* Fast forward 10 years Nevill Armstrong returns with a few other sportsmen to reap the reward of his previous scouting adventures. On a hunting trip in 1914 he found that the riches of ...

After serving 5 years in prison, Kamden “Killa” King has returned home. Although his best friend Zeke did everything to make his transition into the free world a smooth one, Killa’s family unit as he’s known it has changed in the most unconventional way. Aside from wanting to discover who set up his arrest, he’s found himself in the middle of a bigger issue that may garner a new enemy: his father Boston King. When bonds are formed, family ties are broken. Secrets are uncovered and both alpha males know the war won’t end well. Kamden is fully prepared to show his father who’s ...

Kids who love video games, especially Minecraft, will love the hilarious ‘Game on Boys’ series, with its captivating stories and lots of awesome gaming content. Ryan James, the ultimate 10-year-old gamer, belongs to a PlayStation club at school. But the PS club isn’t your average after-school hangout. It's a secret gateway to other dimensions! Ryan and his PS gang are about to level up in ways they never imagined in the Game on Boys series. Forget ordinary adventures—this is an epic quest where reality and pixels collide! Hold onto your controllers because in the first four books, ...

Would you be prepared to work for free? How would you like to bust your hump for a large corporation 60-plus hours a week without a wage or a single day off for the vague promise of some mysterious perks in the distant future? You'd refuse point blank, wouldn't you? But what if the job in question was playing a state-of-the-art fantasy MMORPG game? And what if this was the only thing you're really good at? Especially considering that your in-game partner is someone really special to you - and this person already lives a virtual life?

As changes loom at Bexford police station, Detective Sergeant Guy Poole seeks a distraction and finds it in the camaraderie of a village pub team. But when one of his new friends is murdered, Poole quickly realizes that he and his new partner must learn to work together seamlessly, or risk letting the killer slip through their fingers. “This final book of the series is one of the best. It’s packed with action and has so many characters that it’s a challenge to figure out who the murderer is. I thoroughly enjoyed this series and highly recommend it to everyone.”

Have you ever been so hurt by a partner that you give up on finding love? John Gardener is a popular teacher with an unlimited passion for science and technology. But while his career is going great guns, his social life stinks. And fear of betrayal isn’t helping him turn that around. The only time John leaves home socially is to spend time with his ex-fraternity buddies at Games Night. A place devoid of female presence for the past five years. Until John’s scheming college roommate, Willy, moves into a house with eight gorgeous girls. And offers to host Games Night. You could almost ...

From living in an office and selling his apartment to leading $1M+/month games—this is the unfiltered playbook for product managers who want to win. Game development isn't just about ideas and creativity. It's about survival. It's about turning your vision into a product that retains, monetizes, and scales—without burning out your team or going broke. The Game Product Management Handbook gives you the real-world systems, mental models, and growth frameworks used inside studios that ship and scale. No fluff. No theory. Just tactics forged through 16 years of painful pivots, missed ...

If you believe in Positive Teaching, being a Champion for our young people, Leading or Coaching with Passion, this book is a MUST! This high-octane book will reinvigorate your passion for the greatest job and responsibility on earth while while teaching tactics for success. Prepare to be Supercharged with electric inspiration and motivation while Learning Proven Strategies to: Form Amazingly Strong and Trusting Student Relationships Motivate and Ignite Students, Teachers and Leaders to be their very BEST Build Incredible School Culture Strengthen Classroom and Team Bonds See what Schools, ...

This book contains 500 GameMaker projects to test and increase your GML and game design skills. Includes a download of example solutions for all 500 projects. After completing all challenges & learning the functions, you'll be in a much better position to plan and program your own game projects. Each challenge contains a title, brief explanation, useful functions and variables, and a hint on tackling the challenge. Each challenge also shows a difficulty guide from 1 (easy) to 5 (most challenging). There is also a check-box you can use to mark if you have completed the challenge. Covers ...

In this war between the cold and callous, the stake is a little higher than just money, power, and respect. Boston and Kamden were once a team and knew one another’s weaknesses. As a result, the men waste no time destroying everything the other has built and any casualties along the way. Boston and his henchmen think it’s a game, but Kam is never one to underestimate his opponent. He knows that his father’s reach and resources aren’t limited. The only thing more solid than his dad’s team of hitters is Kam’s heart. ‘Killa Kam’ will stop at nothing to fulfill the promises ...

It doesn’t matter if you only want to buy a house, get some money to start a business or get your personal finances on track, THE 800 BLUEPRINT gives up bankable information and unleashes industry secrets that can help anyone go from bad credit to borrowing 6 figures or more within 12 months. This book is a must read as it contains some of the most impactful information on personal credit and credit card funding available today. The author lays out a easy to follow guideline to get negative items deleted, maximize borrowing potential and add another level of financial literacy that can be...

Sci-Fi Romance + Guaranteed HEA I didn’t ask to be abducted by alien slavers. I certainly didn’t ask to be sold and then forced to fight to the death in an intergalactic battle arena like some messed up alien hunger games. But now I’m in here, stuck in a purple jungle, trying to survive... ~~~ Rachel was happy living a normal life in New Orleans when she and her best friend Arya are abducted by aliens. Sold to the highest bidder, she wakes up in a strange jungle...and she isn't alone. ~~ Tor didn’t expect to find his mate in the Death Games. He was on a mission to find his missing ...