Sentences with phrase «of social mechanics»

It was a highly prescient implementation of social mechanics into a single - player game, and one that dozens of developers have since copied.

Not exact matches

Eric Dahan, co-founder of InstaBrand, a social media marketing agency, spends his free time spearfishing and reading about quantum mechanics.

The platform's mobile strategy bridges the gap between online and offline commerce, and its advanced social tools gamify the process of collecting by leveraging competitive mechanics.

Morality is PERFECTLY explained simply by the structure of the evolutionary process and the mechanics of social networking..

The people I've met through wrapping (through babywearing in general but specifically wrapping) have taught me so much, well beyond mechanics, especially on topics of social justice.

On the agenda: the role of social media, campaign messaging vs. campaign mechanics, why SuperPACs run more negative ads than campaigns, and a whole lot more.

Either way, I can guarantee the way we use social media will continue to evolve daily in terms of tactics and mechanics.

The only «legs» it will have are those that are provided by the Westminster Media village - so yes, it will likely continue to play on the TV news and in some newspapers but I doubt this will be the main topic of conversation at The Mechanics in Deptford or Bedlington Social.

Nassau County road and highway workers, parks employees, social workers, sewer plant mechanics, clerks, laborers and hundreds of other hard working CSEA members are not living extravagant lifestyles and did not cause the current crisis, Laricciuta said.

I've examined environmental and social impacts of cellphones, pondered hummingbird flight mechanics, broken solar panels, and assisted with cadaver studies of biomedical devices.

Programming the robotic clans to work as a group requires not just physics and mechanics, but also needs to leverage social concepts of group decision - making and uncertainty.

But computer analyses of collective animal behavior are limited by the need for constant tracking and measurement data for each individual; hence, the mechanics of social animal interaction are not fully understood.

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers may have discovered a new truth about the mechanics behind self - perception.

Now in its 45th year of production, the Italian motorsports veterans are using their status as the mechanic's monthly as a platform for political and social pensées that resonate on a wider, and more newsworthy scale.

The first thing you need to understand, when approaching Frostpunk, is that it is not an ordinary city builder, but a survival experience that uses management mechanics as a means to support, on a playful level, the elements of social engineering and nihilism that define it.

Bizarrely merging pinball elements with RPG mechanics, this new spin - off title will certainly be one for any fans of the massively popular social RPG Monster Strike [Free] to try out, and worth a look for anyone looking to fill the void until the November release of Final Fantasy XV...

«Gone Girl»: A scarlet - spattered sublime pleasure, with bravura direction from David Fincher, brilliant writing and plenty of social commentary to go with the thriller mechanics like the poison that truly kills you smeared on the shining knife that stabs deep.

Social features only compound the benefits of the game mechanics, letting learners share their successes with each other.

Beyond the simplest mechanics of programming, I focus on social skills.

Writing is incorporated into various subject areas (i.e. math, science, reading, social studies, etc.) In addition to cross-curricular writing opportunities, students are instructed in the mechanics of writing through grammar and writing lessons, journal writing, and Writer's Workshop.

An agent must be organized, intelligent, multi-tasking, a good negotiator, have excellent time management skills, love books, know marketing and sales and be well versed in the mechanics of writing / storytelling / character development / plot / pacing and social media.

In addition to the mechanics of launching of a business, there were social media platforms and computer programs to master (Goodreads alone was a labyrinth that had me lost!)

A big part of the reason people love games are the connections they foster between friends, and as technology and connectivity continue to improve, new social mechanics will continue to come to market.

And some designers, such as the team that did the excellent Battlestar Galactica boardgame, have managed to find success in creating tension and interesting social mechanics with the introduction of a traitor mechanic into the cooperative gameplay style.

A day before the GDC Online early deadline, the major October 5th - 8th Austin - based event has added track keynotes from Blizzard's Greg Canessa (on Battle.net), Playdom's Raph Koster (on social mechanics), and Bigpoint's Heiko Hubertz (on the rise of Europe in online gaming).

For some of those games, the social aspect is secondary, like a trading mechanic that is part of a game, but not essential, and for others the social aspect is one of the core gameplay mechanics.

(a ghost story) by Tim Rogers, a look at the mechanics of monetization in social games.

Features include, gameplay mechanics improvements on both offense and defense, an extensive roster of players, teams and leagues, multiplayer play options both locally and online, social network functionality through the EA Sports Football Club, and voice command functionality using the Kinect Sensor.

Naessens also suggested that a game with gambling mechanics could pose a threat to minors who would feel social pressure to spend a lot of money on those games.

Christy is refreshingly honest in general, commenting of his current vocation: «As a level designer, I'm merging my background as an artist, my interests in game mechanics and spatial compositions, my educational background in iconography, communication, story telling, social interactions, and architecture.

The FPS Module is like Arena Commander, its very specific maps / modes only, the FPS mechanics in the Persistent Universe is a lot different, which allows full freedom of players, exploration of social hubs / etc.

There is also social mechanics in the form of leaderboards and gifts.

Highlights include the confirmation of a keynote from Zynga chief game designer Brian Reynolds (FrontierVille), and track keynotes from Blizzard's Greg Canessa (on Battle.net), Playdom's Raph Koster (on social mechanics), and Bigpoint's Heiko Hubertz (on the rise of Europe in online gaming).

, a chat with Erik Wolpaw about Portal 2, and a comparison of core and social game mechanics.

After an opening presentation by G4C President Susanna Pollack on the power and potential of video games to drive social change, students were divided into groups and guided through the game design process in a rapid - fire game jam: inventing games using unconventional materials as their game components, playtesting mechanics and refining their rules, and iterating to improve the gameplay.

Through his work, Robinson investigates the mechanics of cultural and social anthropology.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

His father Lewis Colson was a social worker but was also a skilled mechanic and inventive with makeshift repairs and adapting materials to new uses — which inspired his son's appreciation of the ordinary and the rejected.

Her ambitious, large - scale projects often take on the mechanics of legal, social and financial processes, making permanent interventions that evolve over time.

Justin Hibbs's practice picks apart the mechanics of spatial perception and representation, drawing upon social, political and aesthetic agendas encoded within architectural structures.

Others like Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken, prefer using game mechanics in the real world to promote innovation and positive social behavior.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

Then the link to policy can be established because Civics teaches not only the process but also the mechanics of the political and social process.

The latest study is part of an attempt to understand the mechanics of the cycles of drought that have been a feature of the region's history — and linked to the crash of civilisations and to contemporary social conflict.

But something else is going on besides the mechanics of twenty first - century social media maneuvering.

The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line.The lectures follow a textbook, «Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast,» written for the course.

If Social Security numbers aren't supposed to be in there, then saying, «Well, that's why we don't put in on Google» is nuts because a transparent judiciary is just absolutely key to the functioning of our democracy, and a transparent judiciary is absolutely key to the mechanics of our legal system.

Social Media Investigations — Gone Viral ² — Mastering the Mechanics of Social Media Investigations Cindy McPherson and Matthew Verga Aug 2017

Overall the social mechanics in the game are extremely limited for a game of this type.

As one would come to expect, Persona 5 has a gorgeous anime visual style, solid turn - based combat mechanics, and a dash of social simulation.