Braving Britannia

Author : Wes Locher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721853885
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Braving Britannia written by Wes Locher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a digital world where anything is possible. Over the past two decades, millions of players have inhabited the virtual world of Britannia inside the Massively Multiplayer Online fantasy PC game, Ultima Online. Released in 1997 by developer Origin Systems and publisher Electronic Arts, Ultima Online is known as the grandfather of MMOs. Braving Britannia: Tales of Life, Love, and Adventure in Ultima Online collects interviews with 35 of the game's players, volunteers, and developers, revealing what they did, where they adventured, and how their lives were shaped, changed, and altered through experiences in Ultima Online's shared virtual world. In a fantasy world of limitless potential, the only thing players seem to enjoy more than playing the game is talking about it, and yet, the true stories behind the avatars have largely gone unpublished for the past twenty years. Until now.

Author : Wes Locher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Braving Britannia written by Wes Locher and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN ... OR CAN YOU? For more than 20 years, millions of players have lived, loved, and lost in the medieval fantasy world of Britannia within the video game Ultima Online. Originally released in 1997 by developer Origin Systems and publisher Electronic Arts, Ultima Online is widely considered to be the grandfather of Massively Multiplayer Online games. This second volume of the Braving Britannia series collects interviews with 30 more of the game's players as they share treasured memories of slaughtering the weak, protecting the innocent, founding successful roleplaying communities, meeting future spouses, bonding with family and friends, decorating expansive castles, or just causing trouble for everyone around them. Meanwhile, the author returns to Ultima Online for the first time in more than 15 years, hoping to discover whether the game is as special as he remembers it, or if his feelings are merely rooted in nostalgia. It's time to brave Britannia. Again.

Author : Weston Locher
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055722263X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musings on Minutiae written by Weston Locher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Weston Locher's Musings on Minutiae where the author offers up hilarious observations and insights on topics of great importance such as: Living in an urban apartment complex ( if I become an admitted pet owner, then I have to pay not only a several hundred dollar deposit to the apartment complex, but I'm pretty sure that they also reserve the right to harvest some of my bodily organs ), living with felines ( as I'm walking anywhere in my apartment. They scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I'm carrying piping hot coffee.), his childhood Memories (Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as 'too long.'), and much more. Chock full of humorous essays and personal anecdotes, Musings on Minutiae will keep you laughing for as long as you have a pulse.

Author : Richard Garriott
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062286676
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explore/Create written by Richard Garriott and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventor, adventurer, entrepreneur, collector, and entertainer, and son of legendary scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott, Richard Garriott de Cayeux has been behind some of the most exciting undertakings of our time. A legendary pioneer of the online gaming industry—and a member of every gaming Hall of Fame—Garriott invented the multi-player online game, and coined the term “Avatar” to describe an individual’s online character. A lifelong adventurer and member of the Explorers Club, Garriott has used the fortune he amassed from the gaming business to embark on a number of thrilling expeditions. He has plumbed the depths of the Atlantic ocean to see the remains of the Titanic, hunted for meteorites in Antarctica, and in 2008 became one of the first private citizens to be launched into space. Richard has been one of the foremost pioneers of the private space industry, investing his time and energy into making space travel more accessible. In this fascinating memoir, Garriott invites readers on the great adventure that is his life. Yet his is no ordinary autobiography; throughout, Garriott engages readers with interactive activities and challenges them with “secret codes” for his games. An audacious genius with an insatiable curiosity and an irrepressible playfulness, Garriott takes readers on an unforgettable intellectual experience that is enlightening, adventurous, and fun.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795311257
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Wes Locher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945762086
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Unit 44 written by Wes Locher and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Area 51's storage unit has fallen into the wrong hands! Agents Gibson and Hatch forget to pay the rent on the facility's off-site storage unit, and the secret contents are sold to a couple of backwoods rednecks at a public auction. Now an alien invasion threatens planet Earth, and the agents will have to recover an item from the locker if they have any hope of stopping the extraterrestrial threat. A must-read for fans of the MEN IN BLACK series and a refreshing comic for anyone tired of dark and brooding heroes.

Author : CRIMEAN WAR SONG BOOK.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Crimean War Song Book of the Allies, with a Brief Account of the War to the Fall of Sebastopol written by CRIMEAN WAR SONG BOOK. and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paulin Huggett PEARCE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Warrior's Swimming Book, and Ladies'Guide; Including the Poem on Waterloo, Queen Victoria's Reign, Death of the Duke of Wellington, Etc written by Paulin Huggett PEARCE and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica Mulligan
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 9781592730001
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Online Games written by Jessica Mulligan and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soup-to-nuts overview of just what it takes to successfully design, develop and manage an online game. Learn from the top two online game developers through the real-world successes and mistakes not known to others. There are Case studies from 10+ industry leaders, including Raph Koster, J. Baron, R. Bartle, D. Schubert, A. Macris, and more! Covers all types of online games: Retail Hybrids, Persistent Worlds, and console games. Developing Online Games provides insight into designing, developing and managing online games that is available nowhere else. Online game programming guru Jessica Mulligan and seasoned exec Bridgette Patrovsky provide insights into the industry that will allow others entering this market to avoid the mistakes of the past. In addition to their own experiences, the authors provide interviews, insight and anecdotes from over twenty of the most well-known and experienced online game insiders. The book includes case studies of the successes and failures of today's most well-known online games. There is also a special section for senior executives on how to budget an online game and how to assemble the right development and management teams. The book ends with a look at the future of online gaming: not only online console gaming (Xbox Online, Playstation 2), but the emerging mobile device game market (cell phones, wireless, PDA).

Author : Wm. Roger Louis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788274
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Adventures with Britannia written by Wm. Roger Louis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.