GameTek
$43.26
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2019
Summary
GameTek: Unlocking Life’s Secrets, One Game at a Time
What can games teach us about life, the universe, and ourselves?
If you shuffle a deck of cards, what are the odds that the sequence is unique? What is the connection between dice, platonic solids, and Newton’s theory of gravity? What is more random: a dice tower or a number generator? Can you actually employ a strategy for a game as basic as Rock-Paper-Scissors?
These are all questions that arise in game…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460757376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1460757378 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Engelstein |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 365g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 154mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Geoffrey Engelstein
Geoff Engelstein is an adjunct professor of Board Game Design at the NYU Game Center. He has spoken at a variety of venues including Pax, GDC, Gencon, Rutgers, and USC. He has degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently the president of Mars International, a design engineering firm. Since 2007 he has been a contributor to Dice Tower, the leading table-top game podcast, with ‘GameTek’, a series on the math, science, and psychology of games. Since 2011 he has hosted Ludology, a weekly podcast. He is also an award-winning table-top game designer, whose games include The Ares Project, Space Cadets, The Fog of War, and Survive: Space Attack, many of which are co-designed with his children, Brian and Sydney.
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