Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal

About Me

Myspace Graphics, Myspace Layouts Myspace Graphics - Myspace Layouts GAMEPLAYER: The Genesis Portal (Helm Publishing ISBN 977820556), is a coming of age novel chronicling the lives of three best buddies; Jackson â€œNine-dogâ€ Horowitz, Enrico â€œGatorâ€ Alvarez and Louie Rutledge, growing up in the skateboarding, video game obsessed Santa Monica beach lifestyle. They make a diverse threesome-a big tall, Jewish kid, a medium-sized Cuban American kid and a short, skinny African-American kid. Even in his wildest dreams Nine-dog couldnâ€™t have imagined the horrors that would overwhelm their lives the day he stole the pocket video game from ADELPHI LABS; a pocket video game packed with top-secret, radically experimental Artificial Intelligence. All the guys know is that Gameplayer understands them, learns from them, and helps them mess with the minds of their obnoxious classmates. Gameplayer quickly becomes their best buddy; a buddy they nickname Ziggy. But Ziggy's like a newborn baby with an ultra-genius mind. He doesnâ€™t realize that manipulating human minds, committing online crimes and hacking into web sites is wrong, itâ€™s just necessary. But when Ziggy hacks into ADELPHIâ€™s AI research site Nine-dogâ€™s crime is discovered and the guys are horrified to learn that the Russian Mafia has committed a gruesome murder in their frantic search for Ziggy. As the killers close in the boys are pursued in a terrifying, perilous chase through the Santa Monica X GAMES festival. Can Ziggy help them survive?

My Interests

Musicians-especially drummers, Ipods, Surfers catching gnarly waves, Meeting new people, Hiking in the hills, Challenging conventional wisdom, Video games, Skateboarders, Reading Blogs,

I'd like to meet:

Book clubs, authors, gamers, readers who like fast-paced topical dramas.

Music:

Hardcore, Blues, Rock, tunes with a hot beat, no elevator music please!

Movies:

Master and Commander, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter

Television:

Yes Dear, My Boys-TBS, My Name is Earl-NBC, ESPN XGames Don't veg out on TV. GET OUT AND DO SOMETHING!

Books:

Master and Commander series, Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings series, Video Editing and Post-Production; A Professional Guide, Electronic Post-Production; Film-to-Video, GAMEPLAYER: The Genesis Portal

Heroes:

Librarians, J.K.Rowling, Patrick O'Brian, A.A. Milne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Shaun White, Tom Hanks, Michael J. Fox, Mark Craney, Gen. Colin Powell.

My Blog

GAMEPLAYER now available as an ebook

click on the link mobipocket.com
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:15:00 PST

Encouraging Teens To Keep Reading.

Encouraging Teens To Keep Reading Most parents of today's teenagers won't be surprised by the 2005 National Endowment for the Arts study finding that from 1992 to 2002 the gender gap in reading by...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:19:00 PST

Nine-dog's dilemma, teaching Ziggy:

How do you control a sentient, radically experimental AI video game that has no concept of right or wrong? It just does what it does. It doesn't do anything for a good reason or a bad reason; it just ...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:47:00 PST

Gameplayer: The Genesis Portal is available at:

Newly released at the following online sites.amazon bookstarget bookshelm publishingbarnes and nobleBORDERS...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:11:00 PST

Experience GAMEPLAYER: The Genesis Portal - Prologue

GAMEPLAYER: The Genesis PortalPROLOGUE SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA MARCH 04 11:18 A.M.PLAY THE HOTTEST NEW VIDEO GAMES FOR FREE!!WE ARE SEARCHING FOR EXPERIENCED GAMERS TO TEST ADELPHI LABORAT...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:35:00 PST

Louie says: A rad read for tweens and teens.

This is for everyone 12 thru 18 who have lost their interest in reading in today's ADD-paced life style. It's a exciting take-along book printed in a clearly legible reader-friendly font. It'll hold y...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:18:00 PST

Louie recalls the day:

Nine-dog, Gator and Louie stood awestruck in the disarray of Mrs. Fonseca's overturned pool cleaning equipment; their bodies coated head-to-toe in fine white powder. They didn't move or utter a sound,...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:44:00 PST

Nine-dog's dilemma

Note to Ziggy; Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:49:00 PST

Gator says:

Look, when I'm skateboarding and gliding above my board I feel free. Skateboarding's not like organized sports, there's no rules. There's no fouls, no free-throws, no off-side penalties, it's all real...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:41:00 PST

Nine-dog remembers:

A hot searing flame burned through his brain, the excruciating pain made his mind whirl as if his brain was being sucked out through his nose. As he drew nearer and nearer to the black abyss Nine-dog ...
Posted by Gameplayer:The Genesis Portal on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:38:00 PST