Before the App Store, Steam, and high-speed downloads, there was the browser. For a glorious decade, the internet was a playground of creativity powered by a buggy, insecure, but revolutionary plugin called Adobe Flash. It changed how we consumed media forever."The Flash Era" chronicles the rise and fall of the golden age of browser gaming, from the stick figure violence of "Xiao Xiao" to the addictiveness of "Bloons Tower Defense" and the surrealism of "Salad Fingers." It tells the stories of teenage developers who became millionaires overnight on sites like Newgrounds and Kongregate,...

"The Accidental Shooter - How a team of rookies created the greatest multiplayer game" tells the story of GoldenEye 007. In 1997, licensed movie games were usually terrible. The team at Rare was inexperienced; many had never made a game before.Gaming historian Chris Baker reveals the twist: The famous 4-player split-screen mode-the feature that defined a generation of sleepovers-was added secretly by one programmer (Steve Ellis) in the final weeks of development, without Nintendo's permission.This book celebrates the creativity of constraints. Because the team didn't know "how things were...

If a shard of the magic mirror enters your eye, you become a servant of the cold-hearted Snow Queen, doomed to a life of ice and snow. At least, that's what the storybook says ... and surely it can't be true. But when her best friend Kai disappears without a trace, Gerda begins to suspect that this mysterious Snow Queen might be to blame. Travelling through the seasons to find him, will Gerda be able to discover the truth and can her warm heart keep her safe in the
frozen north?
TreeTops Greatest Stories offers children some of the worlds best loved tales in a collection of timeless...