This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what...
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) had compelling
reasons to partner with Rockport Publishers on this book: It
meets a growing, real, and broad hunger for information and in-
spiration on industrial design.
Recently, industrial design has emerged as a profession that...
George W. Bush's infamous remark about the 'Axis of Evil' brought North Korea dramatically back into the international spotlight. During the late 1990s relations between North Korea and the US and its allies were on the mend. However, the election of George W. Bush resulted in renewed crisis. The nuclear accord between the two...
While the idea of cleverly using silicon–germanium (SiGe) and silicon (Si) strained-layer epitaxy to
practice bandgap engineering of semiconductor devices in the highly manufacturable Si material system
is an old one, only in the past decade has this concept become a practical reality. The final success of
creating novel Si...
The objectives of the second edition have been maintained and updated to 2005 in the current volume where users will find that one third of the references, now totaling more than 1300, are new to this edition. At the same time most of the in-depth Further Reading suggestions are new to this volume, and production data of some 30 tables...
This book offers a relatively large overview of modeling families which exist in
spatial analysis and of the different mindsets that went into them. Models presented are
related to space organization principles, localization logic, the form of spatial
interactions1 and their role in space dynamics. The expertise of the authors is...
Examine several methods of testing for genetically modified organisms and the reasons behind their strict regulation!
Testing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Foods is the first study of the screening methods and tools utilized for determining the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products. Leading...
The world is becoming increasingly electrified. For the foreseeable future, coal will
continue to be the dominant fuel used for electric power production. The low cost and
abundance of coal is one of the primary reasons for this. Electric power transmission, a
process in the delivery of electricity to consumers, is the bulk...
Since the first part of the twentieth century, cybernetics and systems research have been developed as
scientific disciplines. Investigations, launched in the area of cybernetics, previously dealt with control
and information processing. In a more narrow sense, they consisted in the consideration of analogies
of the control and the...
My journey down the social media road began years
ago, and many people have praised me for my foresight
and brilliance. They are very kind, but the
truth is, what really took me down this road was desperation.
A few years ago—perhaps you remember—the economy
took a heck of a dip. On its way down, it punched me in the...
Soft Computing (SC) techniques have been recognized nowadays as attractive
solutions for modeling highly nonlinear or partially defined complex systems
and processes. These techniques resemble biological processes more closely than
conventional (more formal) techniques. However, despite its increasing popularity,
soft computing lacks...
It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
