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Board games deserve a special mention in the modern world, even with the onslaught of video games and other new avenues of entertainment in the information age. Since their inception thousands of years ago, with ancient board games found concretely in 3500BC, hundreds of board games are still played throughout the world with some major popularity. Board games are usually very cheap to procure and often have a very easy learning curve to them. This makes them available for all and with the educative component in visio-spatial and analytical skills, are helpful for growing children.The book ...

This book contains ten complete game development projects to be completed by the programmer in Game Maker. Each of these projects is separated into seven sections to streamline the development. Ranging from a simple remake of the famous Pong game to more complex projects involving sliding puzzles and bouncing balls, the projects are designed with gradual progression and maximal liberty to the programmer to express their creative side. Requiring no background in computers science or applications, and only a minimal grasp of the concepts of this development tool, this book aims to make the ...

This book contains a interesting list of 30 implementable projects in the Indie Game Development scene. All of these projects were created in Game Maker Studio (1 and 2) and can also be implemented in other game engines of the programmer's choice. Each of the projects is graded according to the difficulty and the challenges are highlighted. A difficulty upgrade and downgrade is also included to make the project simpler and easy or more complex but better. A timescale for each of the projects is also implemented to ease the process of applicability of the game concepts in different settings....

The modern times is abound with abstraction. From an alluring website to a zany metaphor, abstraction is the name of the game. For a fun pastime or a creativity test during interviews, the fuse of primers for abstract thinking can be set alight. In this book, set yourself up, your friends or your kids in solving these exciting primer puzzles. " I make you laugh and Batman vengeful. Who am I? " Delve inside for the answer! The book features a total set of 170+ primer puzzles. From the easy ones involving the Roman goddess of love, to the challenging ones to do with eukaryotic role models, ...

India is a huge country. But it is not apparent to many of its populace. Mercator projection is to blame when we glance at the maps, but other omissions also abound. From the scorching desert of Thar to the bustling metropolis of Mumbai, from the heavy tint greens of Bengal, to the red soil topography of Tamil Nadu, India is a land of interesting differences. To the trained eye, however,this is all but a molecule on the surface of the Indian ocean. The deeper parts of the metaphorical, but amusingly synonymous, ocean lies in things that are not visible by the glances through the iris. The ...

There are five (basic, for more precise uses, there are many more) sense organs and they all collect data. Their organization, analysis and presentation, when combined is called statistics. One of the most important successes of statistics lies in predicting the outcomes of random events, events which have outcomes that are not predetermined. This prediction, in the applied world, is often the sculpting block which is chiseled away into a fine statue with more real-world data. One of such widely used sculpting block is the ‘particular distribution’, also called the Bell or Gaussian ...

Perhaps never before in history we had so many jobs and more importantly, the freedom to choose one’s job globally. Indeed, not only in the more developed countries, but also in the less developed ones, the right talent and hard work can take us to our dream job destinations and provide us with a better quality of life. But one of the largest problems here is with the recruiters, how can they pick the right talent, especially the talent that has what it takes to be successful in their chosen vocation? The answer, unfortunately, isn’t easy. But among the closest, in practice, is the ...

The common discourses about predicting the future chiefly revolve around the day, such as in predicting the weather (or, for more lucrative career opportunities, day-trading) or the week, as in the Sunday edition of many dailies (mostly in the editorials, sometimes in the astrology column!). Rarely we consider it for months or years, which are cases we consider while buying large value properties or consumer goods, or for relationships of great import. Predicting anything longer is rarer. However, many individual thinkers of the past and schools of thoughts tried to predict future in longer...

Our global landscape is one where technology is becoming a larger and larger fundamental part of everyday life. Technological landscapes are now merging with global landscapes and one may not find one without the other. Business and social interactions are also finding its way onto the technological landscapes. Due to the enormous reach of the instruments of the technological landscape, especially the mobile phone and fast internet, it is also a time when social development can be ushered through the use of the tools in this technological landscapes.Progressive Web Apps are software ...

The timeless essence of the Gita is rendering its services to philosophies worldwide since its popularization a few centuries back. A huge corpus of information and applied philosophy can be found by following the trails of Gita and its derivations. The balance of the ancient text with regard to thought and action (to counter the plight of thoughtless action, one might add) is almost unparalleled. Relatively free of astrological superstitions, compared to “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, the Gita is a also guide for the battlefield, and not only the practical kind. Relatively peaceful after...

UPDATE- After receiving a lot of positive feedback, we are released an updated edition with more information and minor corrections. All the best! A book on cracking the CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Research Assistantship and Lectureship in India. This book covers 51 tips on preparation, book-choices, online materials and last minute tips for the examination. Most tips have sub-tips for greater clarification, including 'Unlucky 13 bad habits an aspirant should never have', '12- A dozen pro-tips' and memorization techniques. For each of the sections in the syllabus, there is a short...

This book is a take on some of the negative aspects of the skyrocketing growth of consumer technology, which now almost fits the term 'universal'. Although we have taken for granted many controversial, to say the least, aspects of gadget designs and the software side of it, there are several important politico-environmental parameters that are getting more important each passing day. What are some of the most important aspects of it, and what should the stakeholders do about it? In this book, the readers can look forward to get an introductory glimpse of this very important, up-and-coming ...

This book is about some of the novel and refreshed methods of pedagogy in school classrooms and beyond. With the world being more globalized and prosperous than ever, manual-labor losing importance to automated machines and suitable education making the glass-ceiling and borders disappear, there had been perhaps no other time in human history where pedagogy in classrooms were more important. These methods are mainly directed for the middle schools and beyond, with a soft focus on some vocational training. Incorporating subject-wise differentiation, the book aims to decipher some common ...

2020, for the human race, is not the year to bookmark and look back with nostalgia in the future. The pandemic is still hitting us hard, and there are still two months to go. Writing a guide about consumer technology, more specifically the traditional computers and their miniaturized versions, however, perhaps didn't have a better time. On the one hand, it is not 2000s anymore that everyone needs a helping hand to use and choose computing devices. On the other hand, the situation is such that many workers are forced to work from home, and sometimes required to buy their own devices. The ...

This book shares an very unique approach to help the aspirants crack CSIR-UGC NET Life Sciences for the eligibility in Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship. It contains a manifold of preparatory ideas and strategies in a manner suitable for conceptual understanding and cracking a big-picture vast-syllabus exam such as the NET. Various questions are discussed and the flow of ideas which help in solving those questions, not just from rote memorization, is elucidated. Taking care of the need of brevity and action-oriented approach, the text has been concisely summarized, aimed at ...

The one quality that separates man from the beasts is the superpower of curiosity. Although many animals, chiefly mammals, have shown some indications of a curiosity drive, it is much smaller in scope and is limited to the immediate goals and is almost never abstract. The author remembers one particular incident of elephants painting art on a social media site. While it was shared by many curious humans, including university professors, the leap in curiosity of non-humans was too good to be true. And subsequent investigations proved it to be false indeed. In such a situation, it is no ...

BChess is a new variant of chess invented by the author and introduced for the first time in this book. Chess as a game is very popular throughout the world, that too for a very long time. Requiring both tactical skills and long term strategical thinking, playing at the top levels of chess is synonymous as indicators of genius. While a correspondence between true high intelligence and indicators of genius is debated, it is widely believed that visio-spatial intelligence skills can develop while playing chess. This new variant hopes to add on the strategy and increase the thrill of this ...

The modern world is increasingly becoming an urban world. Although lush with ever-increasing avenues of creative expression, the urban world is getting increasingly homogenized. It is very hard, for example, to guess which country a supermarket is from. This brings monotony and people want freedom in the old lap of nature, as the trends in newly industrialized countries show. After all, a luxury house or a yatch can cost millions of dollars, but we can venture a guess that it is absolutely incomparable to the air, water and skies the nature has to offer. Here we take a look in this regard ...