Books like Mass effect by Lauren Cornell

In a galaxy shaped by lost Prothean technology, Alliance commander David Anderson probes a deadly secret station on Mars, chasing a vanished scientist amid conspiracies that threaten interstellar peace.

The App Generation examines how today’s digitally immersed youth shape and are shaped by apps, revealing both their empowering possibilities and their risks to identity, relationships, and creativity.

As experienced teachers of novice game designers, the authors have discovered patterns in the way that students grasp game design — the mistakes they make as well as the methods to help them to create better games. Each exercise requires no background in programming or artwork, releasing beginning designers from the intricacies of electronic game production and allowing them to learn what works and what doesn't work in a game system. Additionally, these exercises teach important skills in system design: the processes of prototyping, playtesting, and redesigning.

In a galaxy where humanity joins countless alien species, the deadly Reapers threaten organic life, and the pro‑human Black Ops group Cerberus runs a dark experiment on a former operative to learn to fight them.

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but entirely new forms such as net art, software art, digital installation and virtual reality have emerged as recognized artistic practices. Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s to the present days, and looks ahead to what the future may hold. Drawing a distinction between work that uses digital technology as a tool to produce traditional forms and work that uses it as a medium to create new types of art, she discusses the key artists and works. The book explores themes addressed and raised by the art, such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, as well as issues such as the collection, presentation and preservation of digital art. This revised and expanded edition investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained in prominence in recent years, including the emergence and impact of mobile and site-specific media, social networking and virtual worlds such as Second Life.