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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The Game Maker’s Companion is the long-awaited sequel to The Game Maker’s Apprentice. This book picks up where the last book left off, advancing your game development journey with some seriously impressive gaming projects. This time you’ll learn how to make professional-quality platform games with solid collision detection and slick control mechanisms and you’ll get acquainted with a long-lost icon of platform gaming history on the way.

You’ll go on to discover techniques to add depth and believability to the characters and stories in your games, including The Monomyth, cut scene storyboarding, and character archetypes. This culminates in the creation of an original atmospheric platform-adventure which will take your GML programming skills to new heights. There’s even a handy reference section at the back of the book which will be invaluable for adding common features to your own games.

With contributions from four games industry professionals and a highly respected member of the Game Maker community, The Game Maker’s Companion is another labor of love that will give you even more hours of enjoyment than the original. If you already own Game Maker then you really must own this book as well.

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A long awaited and well deserved sequel !
This eagerly awaited sequel was pre-ordered by myself in November 2009 and I am so glad the that time has come around to its now release date. The Game Maker's Companion touches on mostly platform games, but covers a more detailed approach giving an understandable breakdown of each step.

The main Games include : Fishpod, Zool ( Commodore Amiga fame ) and Shadows on the Deck ( fantastic ).

As well as covering Drag and Drop actions, GML ( Game Maker Language ) is covered in more detail throughout, which gives a more direct way of achieving results.

The book also has plenty of diagrams, screenshots and great artwork, which brings each associated page and chapter to life. What is even more special, is a section about story telling and how to apply it into your own games.

My favourite section of the book, is Chapter 14 : Feature Reference. This has great little routines that can be added to your own Games and Projects : 360 Degree Movement / Shooting, Cheat Codes, Countdown Clock, Homing Missiles, Mini-Map, Pausing the Game, Scrolling Text ( Horizontal / Vertical ) and many more. Each routine is in GML, but is straight forward to understand and use. This is one of the great 14 chapters to read and absorb.

An added bonus with the Book, is a CD with all the examples from The Game Maker's Companion, which also includes Game Maker 8 to get you started.

Overall, this is a well deserved follow up to The Game Maker's Apprentice, for which I could possibly see a third book covering even more styles of game design and routines. Perhaps the 3D aspects of Game Maker ?

Another Game Maker Hit
I purchased the e book for this title for two reasons, first it was available immediately, and when I purchased "The Game Makers Apprentice", I discovered that having the e book had some advantages for me while using the book to create the games while learning about game design and development.

I am happy to say the Companion took over in a sense where the Apprentice left off.I learned a fair amount about game design and development, but I wanted more in depth information of a specific genre.Whether I would have chosen platform games is irrelevant, I just needed to go in deeper, and the Companion takes me there.

It uses the same game development instruction style as the apprentice with perhaps a little more in depth explanation than apprentice did.This is not a short coming for apprentice, I wasn't ready for it then, and I am with the companion.

The developers of this title have taken game design and development to the next level for game developers, including combining interactive story telling with game development.As I am finishing this book, my question is, which genre is next and when will it be available.The developers did a great job, but to be honest I want more.So get to work. ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Mikkel Kessler (born March 1, 1979) is a Danish professional boxer and currently WBC Super Middleweight champion after he won against the previously undefeated Carl Froch on the 24th of april 2010. In his professional career he has a record of 43-2 and 32 knockouts. With his win over unbeaten Carl Froch, bagging the WBC Super Middleweight title, Kessler became a three time world champion. Kessler was born to an English mother and Danish father. He began his vocation early, training in boxing gyms at the tender age of 13. Kessler fought three years as an amateur. He finished his amateur career with a record of 44 wins, and three losses. He has won the Danish Championship five times in addition to the Norwegian Championship and the Scandinavian Championship. He originally started campaigning as a light middleweight and then middleweight for the first 22 fights of his career. He won 16 of his first 22 fights by knockout (KO). After 3 years and 22 fights, Kessler settled in the super middleweight division. Kessler continued his hard hitting streak, dispatching 6 of his first 7 opponents by KO, thereby improving his record to 29-1 with 22 KO. On November 29, 2002, Kessler fought for his first championship and defeated former World Boxing Council (WBC) super middleweight champion Dingaan Thobela over twelve rounds to become International Boxing Association champion. He gave up this belt to fight for the more recognized WBC International title on April 11, 2003, versus Craig Cummings. Kessler won by a knockout in the third round. He defended his title on three occasions before finally hitting it big on November 12, 2004. His stablemate, Mads Larsen, another Danish World Class fighter, was set to challenge Manny Siaca for the World Boxing Association championship in Copenhagen. Larsen was injured in training and Kessler took the fight on short notice, winning the title. Kessler defended his t...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Brian Nielsen, Johnny Bredahl, Jimmi Bredahl, Hans Jacob Nielsen, Tom Bogs, Søren Petersen, Jørgen Hansen, Søren Fjordback Søndergaard, Svend Wad, Gotfred Johansen, Thyge Petersen, Victor Jörgensen, Anders Petersen, Carl Jensen, Poul Kops, Viggo Frederiksen, August Suhr, Kaj Frederiksen, Charles Petersen, Hemming Hansen, Valdemar Holberg, Emil Andreasen, Andreas Petersen, Ricardt Madsen, Nick Clausen, Gunnar Andreasen, Børge Holm, Ingvard Ludvigsen, Ivan Schannong, Johan Jensen, Martin Olsen, Harald Nielsen, Carl Lindberg, Robert Larsen, Georg Kruse, Omar Hermansen, Sigfred Madsen, Aage Fahrenholtz, Arne Sande, Einer Jensen. Excerpt:Aage Fahrenholtz (born March 8, 1901, date of death unknown) was a Danish boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he was eliminated in the second round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Harry Isaacs . Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Olympic medal record Anders Otto Petersen (1 January 1902 April 28, 1966) was a Danish flyweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s. Known as "Vidunderbarnet (Wonder kid)", he won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics , losing to Frankie Genaro in the final. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Carl Andreas Dusinius Hjort Petersen (September 19, 1901 February 15, 1976) was a Danish boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Buddinge and died in Copenhagen . In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the welterweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming silver medalist Héctor Méndez . Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Arne Sande (born March 18, 1905, date of death unknown) was a Danish boxer who competed ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Brian Nielsen, Mikkel Kessler, Ahmed Khaddour, Mads Larsen, Battling Nelson, Johnny Bredahl, Hans Jacob Nielsen, Gert Bo Jacobsen, Kid Williams, Tom Bogs, Hasan Al, Søren Petersen, Jørgen Hansen, Søren Fjordback Søndergaard, Svend Wad, Martin Kristjansen, Tue Bjørn Thomsen, Gotfred Johansen, Thyge Petersen, Victor Jörgensen, Anders Petersen, Carl Jensen, Poul Kops, Viggo Frederiksen, August Suhr, Martin Nielsen, Kaj Frederiksen, Charles Petersen, Hemming Hansen, Valdemar Holberg, Emil Andreasen, Andreas Petersen, Ricardt Madsen, Nick Clausen, Gunnar Andreasen, Børge Holm, Ingvard Ludvigsen, Ivan Schannong, Johan Jensen, Martin Olsen, Harald Nielsen, Carl Lindberg, Robert Larsen, Georg Kruse, Omar Hermansen, Sigfred Madsen, Aage Fahrenholtz, Arne Sande, Einer Jensen, Evans Ashira. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mikkel Kessler (born March 1, 1979) is a Danish professional boxer and currently WBC Super Middleweight champion after he defeated Carl Froch on the 24th of april 2010. In his professional career he has a record of 43-2 and 32 knockouts. With his win over unbeaten Carl Froch, Bagging the WBC Super Middleweight title, Kessler became a fourth time world champion. Kessler was born to an English mother and Danish father. He began his vocation early, training in boxing gyms at the tender age of 13. Kessler fought three years as an amateur. He finished his amateur career with a record of 44 wins, and three losses. He has won the Danish Championship five times in addition to the Norwegian Championship and the Scandinavian Championship. He originally started campaigning as a light middleweight and then middleweight for the first 22 fights of his career. He won 16 of his first 22 fights by knockout (KO). After 3 years and 22 fights, K...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2688815 ... Read more

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Included among the 12 fairy tales in this facsimile edition are "Snowdrop," "Hansel and Gretel," "Cherry, or the Frog Bride," and "The Goose Girl." ... Read more

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Avoid Kindle Edition
This is a review of the Kindle Edition.The table of contents is not linked to the individual stories.Since this is a collection of stories, it makes the Kindle Edition book unusable -- you would have to click, page-by-page, to reach your desired story.

Collector's Edition
Philip has faithfully translated this collection of the Grimm Brothers' anthology of oral folktales.He has chose to include twenty of the classic German tales in this beautiful edition.Hardcover, with gilted pages, and metallic highlights in the illustrations creates a very stunning picture.Philip has selected some of the most well known favorites, but also a few that modern times have forgotten.The reading level is approximately third grade, though the stories look as though they would be better understood and more entertaining if read aloud.There tends to be just one illustration per story.While they are wonderfully done and framed with more artwork, they don't do much to tell the plot of the story and are not always matched up with the text.Every classroom should have a collection of Grimm's fairy tales, but this isn't the one.This book seems to have been designed more for collectors and to sit on a shelf than to be handled by youngsters on a daily basis in a classroom environment.

Why 4 stars?:
This is not a book to be read, but one to be collected and set upon a shelf to collect dust.The illustrations are beautiful and the information provided about the tales and the brothers is excellent.However, this book was not made for children to read their favorite tales from. ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Niels Bohr, Johan Kjeldahl, Hermann Diels, François Jacob, Holger Bech Nielsen, Elliott Lieb, Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski, Kurt Sethe, Bruno Snell, Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch, John Frank Adams, Wolfgang Schleich, Ekrem Akurgal, Władysław Szafer, Niels Kaj Jerne, Inge Nielsen, Klaus Alpers, Reinhardt Kristensen, Oliver Lowry, Julius Henrik Lange, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Bent Fuglede, Axel Anthon Bjørnbo, Caspar Peter Paludan, Kirsten Hastrup,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Niels Henrik David Bohr (* 7. Oktober 1885 in Kopenhagen; † 18. November 1962 ebenda) war ein dänischer Physiker. Er erhielt den Nobelpreis für Physik im Jahr 1922 „für seine Verdienste um die Erforschung der Struktur der Atome und der von ihnen ausgehenden Strahlung". Der Vater von Niels Bohr, Christian Bohr, war Professor für Physiologie, seine Mutter Ellen (geb. Adler) entstammte einer jüdischen Familie. Gemeinsam mit seinem Vater und seinem Bruder Harald Bohr führte er regelmäßig Gespräche und Diskussionen zu wissenschaftlichen Themen, die bei beiden Brüdern das Interesse für die Naturwissenschaften stärkten und das spätere Leben prägten. "Ich wuchs in einem Haus mit einem reichen intellektuellen Leben auf, in dem wissenschaftliche Diskussionen alltäglich waren. In der Tat machte mein Vater kaum eine Unterscheidung zwischen seiner eigenen wissenschaftlichen Arbeit und seinem lebhaften Interesse an allen Problemen des menschlichen Lebens" urteilt Niels Bohr später rückblickend über sein Elternhaus. Harald Bohr wurde später Professor für Mathematik, während sich Niels Bohr der Physik zuwendete. Sein Bruder war außerdem ein populärer dänischer Fußballspieler in der dänischen Nat...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=1099385 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Ludvig Holberg, Stein Tønnesson, Jacob Aall, Yngvar Nielsen. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Ludvig Holberg, (né le 3 décembre 1684 à Bergen - mort le 28 janvier 1754 à Copenhague) est le premier grand écrivain nordique des temps modernes. Après la période florissante des eddas, le latin était devenu la langue littéraire des pays scandinaves. Le génie d'Holberg va conférer à la langue vernaculaire ses lettres de noblesse. Etant né en Norvège mais ayant passé presque toute sa vie à Copenhague, il est revendiqué à la fois par les littératures danoise et norvégienne. Il faut préciser qu'à cette époque les deux pays étaient réunis sous la couronne des rois de Danemark. Fils d'un officier de l'armée norvégienne, Ludvig Holberg vécut jusqu'à l'âge de dix-huit ans à Bergen, port relativement florissant grâce au commerce du bois qui transitait vers l'Angleterre. En 1702, Holberg quitte la Norvège pour s'établir à Copenhague qui est alors la seule ville universitaire de la double monarchie . Avec ses 70 000 habitants, la cité "offre le spectacle d'une vie active où la bourgeoisie atteint à une réelle aisance et court à ses plaisirs" . De plus, les souverains Frédéric IV et surtout Frédéric V, fortement nationnalistes et marqués par la religion luthérienne veulent remplacer le latin par le danois dans l'enseignement et la vie culturelle. Une langue littéraire doit naître et Ludvig Holberg vient à point nommé pour l'enrichir de son génie créateur. Très tôt il a appris le latin, parle l'allemand, l'anglais et le français. Cette pratique des langues étrangères lui permettra de découvrir les principales littératures européennes qu'il va imiter avant de trouver son inspiration personnelle. Après plusieurs voy...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Publisher: New York, DoranPublication date: 1921Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 8705 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exposure to ultrafine particles from ambient air and oxidative stress-induced DNA damage.(Research)
Author: Elvira Vaclavik Brauner
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Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 115Issue: 8Page: 1177(6)

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