Payton Huang has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is The Bitcoin Clown.
Simply the Best: Interviews with Video Game Designers, Composers and Scofflaws
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"In this collection of interviews with game artists, designers and composers, Mat Bradley-Tschirgi explores both gaming's past and, more importantly, its future.” (Flint Dille, writer/game designer) "It's the rare example of a book with something to offer to aspiring game developers, game scholars, and everyday fans alike.” (Professor Jess Morrissette, PhD, creator, The Video Game Soda Machine Project) "What's particularly impressive here is the scope of this project and the variety of subjects. There are great musicians, designers, producers, and publishers here ready to share their insights with us via the Bradley-Tschirgi conduit.” (Professor Matt Barton, PhD, author, Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games) "Capturing the story of this maturing industry has become a labor of real historical value, and Mat Bradley-Tschirgi has joined the pantheon of greats who have undertaken this important work." (Todd Mitchell, podcaster, CodeWritePlay) Video games are not born fully formed from a dark abyss. They are created by designers, writers, artists, sound engineers, and composers, only to be released by publishers into world for critics and the general public to embrace or reject them. In Simply the Best: Interviews with Video Game Designers, Composers and Scofflaws, author Mat Bradley-Tschirgi interviews dozens of indie and professional designers who have worked on such classics as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Fallout, and Leisure Suit Larry in this delightful tome. Learn what older PC RPGs offered that modern RPGs don't. Revel in tales of how the Roland MT-32 Sound Module allowed composers to create music that really came alive instead of the mere PC speaker bleeps and bloops. Discover if Leisure Suit Larry is circumcised. All these knowledge nuggets can be yours within this audiobook.
©2020 Mat Bradley-Tschirgi (P)2020 Mat Bradley-Tschirgi
Shanghai Nobody: A Novel
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Top 20 Featured General Fiction of the year 2016 by Canadian book reading platform with over 65 million users. A story from China that enthralled over 85K+ readers around the world. Jong may be clever, but he was so awkward when it comes to dealing with women. After his girlfriend broke up with him, Jong got into all sorts of troubles. A chance encounter put him under the radar of Shirley Li, the daughter of Li Kun, one of the richest men in China. Shirley quickly became obsessed with him and hinted at the possibility of a long-term relationship. She whisked him away to America on a whirlwind honeymoon tour, but little did he know that there was a hidden agenda behind her apparent affection. Meanwhile, Jong met an American student Marvey who worked for the Li's. Charming, kind and optimistic, she was someone who truly took his breath away. Was he going to admit to his feelings or just let Shirley run over his life? Written in a humorous tone, author Vann Chow brought you a satire of urban life in China. The story explores China's cultural phenomenon such as gender imbalance, selfish generation, newly rich, migrant workers, digital loneliness and Capitalist tyranny, reflecting on the glamorous and not-so-glamorous side of the rise of a modern nation through the eyes of one nobody of Shanghai. Shanghai Nobody is the story of one young Chinese man's adventure to find love and purposes in the 21st-century Chinese metropolis.
©2015 Vann Chow (P)2019 Vann Chow
The Bitcoin Clown
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Set in Shanghai, China, the home of the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform and the sixth largest cryptocurrency in the world, Bitcoin Clowns tells the story of a young, talented programmer Jong He who plunged into the mysterious and dark world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies because of a pet cryptocurrency he created as a joke to mock the ICO speculative madness happening around the world. Little did he know his invention would be quickly adopted and become the latest fad of the town, be backed by international banks, help create the world's first cryptocurrency billionaire, and even attract adoption from a slew of criminals, including South American counterfeit drug cartel and anonymous Eurasian hackers slash Robbin-hoods. In the meantime, his cousin Cao had disappeared because of financial troubles at his company that sold ill-designed cryptocurrency funds of debatable legitimacy, and his partner was found dead in the office after a client lost a huge amount of investments passing through their hands. His cousin's other sketchy business partners were reluctant to tell him anything, and law enforcement was grossly unfamiliar with these new kinds of financial instruments to see through the thick plot of deception in front of them. Jong had to rely on his exceptional luck, incredible courage, and loyalties of his friends once again to find his cousin and retrieve the missing millions. Could Jong succeed, or would he be sacrificed and fade into obscurity in the latest, fiercest fight of the century on the digital realm for the kind of new digital gold and the power to control key businesses and even governments around the world? The action-packed story told in first-person perspective follows Jong He, a highly intelligent but socially awkward Chinese programmer and his friends around the financial capital of the country in the cat-and-mouse chase of the biggest cryptocurrency heist of our time.
©2019 Vann Chow (P)2019 Vann Chow