computer games

Presents an introduction to Scratch programming, covering how to create computer games, interactive stories, graphic artwork, and computer animation, and includes a CD with the Scratch software, project source files, and custom graphics and audio.

Explains how video and computer games can help children build successful futures by teaching them to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, and helping them learn how to survive in an ever-changing world.

Examines the important social and cultural aspects of digital games, high-profile cases of violence due to the variety of gaming, and psychological research that focus on game effects.

After hearing an extraordinary fable, three editors, who may have spent too much time reviewing occult manuscripts, decide to feed information to an incredible computer that makes connections between their random facts, and it is just for fun until the game starts taking over.

Four children who used to live alone in a boxcar and now reside with their grandfather--decide to investigate when a computer game they are testing seems to be full of clues about familiar situations and people.

Examines the career of video game developer, discussing the skills and requirements needed to do the job, featuring facts about job outlook, education, training, and salaries, and including on-the-job profiles, sidebars, and photographs.

When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

A boy who likes nothing but playing computer games is in trouble when the power goes out and his little sister has all of the batteries in the house.

Describes the connections between classical art and iconic video games, and introduces basic drawing skills, including light, value , color, and how they can be used in complex video game worlds.