You, the hero of this story, are a member of the Sky Watch keeping the floating archipelago of Pangaria safe. When the Nimbus isle suddenly crashes out of the sky into the Ocean of Tempests below, you must explore the remaining islands, and battle both storms and sea beasts in your mission to raise Nimbus from the deep.

You are an outcast: a renegade with no memory of your past. In seeking to unlock your true identity, you find yourself on a path to redemption--to save the world from one of the greatest threats that it has ever known: the sinister Legion of Shadow.

Since 1980, in-the-know computer gamers have been enthralled by the unpredictable, random, and incredibly deep gameplay of Rogue and those games inspired by it, known to fans as "roguelikes." This book covers many of the most prominent titles, and explains in great detail what makes them interesting, ways to get started playing them, the history of the genre, and much more.

The author presents a guide to the computer game Dwarf Fortress, playable on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X-based computers, with the author focusing on the game's simulation mode and how to establish and maintain a dwarf fortress city, manage its resources and train a dwarf military.

The fastest easiest way to learn to program object oriented text adventures. This book will teach you the real secrets of adventure game programming. You will learn how to create Rooms and Treasures, how to let the player take and drop objects and how to save and restore games using serialization. The projects (which can be downloaded free) are written in C#.

Learn how to program games for the NES! You'll learn how to draw text, scroll the screen, animate sprites, create a status bar, decompress title screens, play background music and sound effects and more.

This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and this interplay between author, player and machine provides new and exciting ways to create and tell stories. In each essay, practitioners of this artform demonstrate how traditional storytelling tools such as characterization, world-building, theme, momentum and atmosphere can be adapted to full effect, using specific examples from their games.

Earth 2440. Your name is Grim, and you survive by bullets and blades. Your street running days are far behind you. Time for a peaceful life on The Rim. Funny thing about the old megacities, the digital underworld... it's not so easy to walk away from. Sometimes old ghosts come calling no matter how far you run.

Slay the Dragon will help you understand the challenges and offer creative solutions to writing for a medium where the audience demands not only to watch the story but to be part of it. Bryant and Giglio step you through such topics as: the no-act structure of video games; writing great game characters; making gameplay emotionally meaningful; and bringing you a game world that is alive.

The book discusses the impact of designing in a multidimensional landscape, where computer science, environmental design, and storytelling all play a role in creating an interactive game design. For the professional game developer to the interested young gamer, this updated edition takes you on an illustrated ride in fun and games.