170 results for "Writing games" between £2.00 and £50.00

Video games is a lucrative new market for scriptwriters but writing for video games is complex and very different to traditional media (tv or film). This practical guide shows how you can adapt your writing skills to this exciting medium. Written by an award-winning games writer, the book gives you a realistic picture of how games companies work, how the writer fits into the development process, and the skills required: from storytelling, to developing interactive narrative, characters and viewpoints...

Designed with the help of an Occupational Therapist, this resource is great for children who have difficulties with accurately perceiving the amount of pressure needed when writing. Children are informed that they are about to embark on a top secret mission. Their name is Secret Agent P which refers to 'pressure-sensitive' ability in both passing on important messages; and staking-out the mission-field. Their task is to pass on a hush-hush message to their fellow agents. The number of agents who...

"Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games" explains the practical aspects of creating scripts for animation, comics, graphic novels, and computer games. It details how you can create scripts that are in the right industry format, and follow the expected rules for you to put your best foot forward to help you break-in to the trade. This book explains approaches to writing for exterior storytelling (animation, games); interior/exterior storytelling (comics and graphic novels), as well as considerations...

Language is Served: Games, Writing Prompts, and Other Language Art

Two of Britain’s most eminent female writers will be discussing literature, fiction, women, the short story and much else besides. Helen Simpson is the author of six collections of stories, the latest of which, A Bunch of Fives , has just been published by Vintage. Michèle Roberts has written twelve highly acclaimed novels and has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: stories of sex and love (Virago). Her most recent book is Ignorance , published by Bloomsbury,...

This Spiral Direct Game Over wallet is just the thing you need to keep everything in your purse organised. Complete with a gothic print all over, this accessory will not only keep your pennies safe but it also help to keep your gothic image on par. The design on the purse features an image of a skull showing his knuckles with the writing ‘GAME OVER’ scratched in, which is perfect for the gothic scene and will never leave your style unnoticed. With several compartments to keep everything secure this...

Description This title is packed full with hundreds of classroom and family game ideas that explore music in a sensitive and non-competitive manner. Suitable for the very young and upwards, the games cover creative listening, reading, writing and understanding the stave in ways that are simple, exciting and lots of fun. Includes puzzles and rhythm activities.

Head Lines Matchbox Game This game is ideal for the creativity writing types. . . Using vowels and consonants from the deck you have to create your own tabloid headlines. This requires you to use your intellect and sense of humour to create a great pun or shocking title to reign victorious in the competitive element of the game. A great little game for airplanes, train or car journeys, or perhaps you could make it some sort of drinking game! Recommended for ages 14+.

In the The Sims 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime and mix their genes from one generation to the next. You set your Sims' goals in life; fame, fortune, family, romance or knowledge. Give them a long, successful existence or leave their lives in shambles. Take them to extremes, from getting busted to seeing a ghost, from marrying an alien to writing a great novel. Unleash your creativity with the all-new Create-A-Sim, new building options, and the new in-game movie camera. Get ready to mix their...

Educational games involving drama, role play and fun, these 6 speaking and listening board games will encourage children to listen carefully and speak clearly whilst developing their ideas, thinking skills and vocabulary. The importance of getting children off to a good start cannot be overstated, and these games will prove invaluable in developing the key skills crucial for future success in reading and writing. Suitable for children aged 4-7 years (and meeting the requirements of phase 1 of the...

Glossy card with blue foil writing and detail. With coloured envelope.

You can use your influence (Tribal Markers) to choose the best statues and mark to your color the statues you cannot achieve in your turn. You can also rely on your Sorcerer and his mighty powers, of the strength of your Chief, as well as on mystic powers of the Rongo writing tablets.

An excellent learning game to help children with special needs develop hand eye coordination, reading and writing skills. Children place the marble at the start and cover it with a small plastic container. Then the child follows the wiggly route without allowing the marble to fall down the holes. There are 2 different coloured marbles so that 2 children can play by seeing who gets the most marbles of their colour to the end of the route.

Choose from over 250 special abilities correlated to attributes, combat skills and magical powers to build the character in a way best suited to tactical needs and style of play. Original fantasy world drawn from literature inspired by the writings of renowned Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Featuring adult themes, less fairy-tale than typical fantasy, with mature social issues like racism, political intrigue and genocide. It is a harsh world where nothing is black or white, right or wrong, often...

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house are letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the...

Recorded during January at SnowGhost Music as well as his Whitefish rental home, The Game Of Monogamy marks the first time Kasher has written, recorded, and produced an album under his own name. Venturing independent, he fully took on the writing process and the result is more of an arranged record than his past releases. A tribute to his artistic drive and creative freedom, the album neither borrows from nor begs comparison to his two bands, CURSIVE and THE GOOD LIFE, and all are grounded in the...

Glossy card with gold foil writing and detail. With colour illustrated interior.