Games development and programming

Learn about looping, a fundamental coding concept, without using a computer.

Do you know how to create an algorithm?

Can cats code?

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to learn HTML and use it to create a web page.

Give readers hands-on coding experience as they learn about Ruby!

The best part about coding is that anyone with a computer can learn how to do it.

Robots fly overhead to find someone who's lost, spy on enemies, and create maps.

Have you ever wished that you could do something heroic to help your country?

Sport-oriented hands-on activities introduce readers to conditionals and other fundamental coding concepts.

Do you like to compete against other people?

Which robot is fastest, smartest, or strongest?

Robots are out of this world!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to learn JavaScript.

Robots can do jobs that once only humans could, from mowing the yard to performing surgery.

This book is part how-to, part profile, and all about leading the girl code revolution!

Are you really into cooking?

Using the action-packed world of sports, this book teaches young readers fundamental coding concepts without using a computer.

Computers and the internet forever changed how we communicate messages and other information.

The Python programming language can be used on any operating system.

Bitcoin is a digital currency-money that exists only online.

Everybody has a story in them.

Everybody has a story in them.

Event-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design.

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games.

This book is a study of the psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of creativity, originality, and inspiration viewed from the lens of a seasoned game developer.

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games.

Playtesting Best Practices: Real World and Online covers the complete journey of playtesting - the iterative journey to shape and refine tabletop games from raw ideas to balanced and fun games.

While formal training and communication are a foundational approach to developing employees in the workplace, alternate reality games (ARGs) provide a framework for increased and sustained engagement within business organizations.

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.

The latest edition of this bestselling game development reference offers proven tips and techniques for the real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data that are useful for beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work.

This book explains how to use the symbolic differentiation system D* for applications in computer games and engineering simulation.

This book focuses on advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time with any shader language available.

Ever since Lorensen and Cline published their paper on the Marching Cubes algorithm, isosurfaces have been a standard technique for the visualization of 3D volumetric data.

Based on course notes of SIGGRAPH course teaching techniques for real-time rendering of volumetric data and effects; covers both applications in scientific visualization and real-time rendering.

Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues.

Written for game programmers and developers, this book covers GPU techniques and supporting applications that are commonly used in games and similar real-time 3D applications.

Implementing physical simulations for real-time games is a complex task that requires a solid understanding of a wide range of concepts from the fields of mathematics, physics, and software engineering.

This collection of articles provides practical and relevant tools, tips, and techniques for those working in the digital audio field.