Games development and programming

For the first time in history, Microsoft has opened up its exclusive gaming platform to anyone who is interested in creating console games.

With the increase in computing speed and due to the high quality of the optical effects it achieves, ray tracing is becoming a popular choice for interactive and animated rendering.

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.

Audio Anecdotes is a book about digital sound.

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

Basics of Game Design is for anyone wanting to become a professional game designer.

This book uses examples in OpenGL and OpenGL Shading Language to present the theory and application of shader programming.

This book brings the insights of game professionals, DCC creators, hardware vendors, and current researchers together into a collection that focuses on the most underrepresented and critical part of game production: tools development.

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

Creating Games offers a comprehensive overview of the technology, content, and mechanics of game design.

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.

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

Supported with code examples and the authors' real-world experience, this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind.

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 book covers essential tools and techniques for programming the graphics processing unit.

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

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

Learn to make games that are more fun and engaging!

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

This book is a comprehensive introduction to visual computing, dealing with the modeling and synthesis of visual data by means of computers.

Direct3D 11 offers such a wealth of capabilities that users can sometimes get lost in the details of specific APIs and their implementation.

This book contains short articles that focus on a particular technique, describe a clever trick, or offer practical advice on game engine development.

This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world.

Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, 3D Graphics for Game Programming presents must-know information for success in interactive graphics.

Culture Specific Items in Chinese to English Video Game Translation aims to investigate the Chinese to English translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) in the localisation of a wuxia role-playing game (RPG).

Unity for Absolute Beginners walks you through the fundamentals of creating a small third-person shooter game with Unity.

Create a game for the Windows Phone market with a heavy emphasis placed on optimization and good design decisions.

In Pro Unity Game Development with C#, Alan Thorn, author of Learn Unity for 2D Game Development and experienced game developer, takes you through the complete C# workflow for developing a cross-platform first person shooter in Unity.

Game Development Tool Essentials provides must-have tips and tricks from industry professionals for strengthening and streamlining your game tools pipeline.

HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers.

2D games are hugely popular across a wide range of platforms and the ideal place to start if you’re new to game development.

Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript is your step-by-step guide to learning to make your first Unity games using UnityScript.

Beginning Android 3D Game Development is a unique, examples-driven book for today's Android and game app developers who want to learn how to build 3D game apps that run on the latest Android 5.

Building JavaScript Games teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills.

Beginning HTML5 Games with CreateJS provides a hands-on approach to get you up and running with the most comprehensive tools available for HTML5 Canvas game development.

Have you ever wanted to include believable physical behaviors in your games and projects to give them that extra edge?

2D games are everywhere, from mobile devices and websites to game consoles and PCs.

Creating fun, sophisticated games for Windows devices large or small has never been easier!

Beginning Android C++ Game Development introduces general and Android game developers like you to Android's powerful Native Development Kit (NDK).

How do you make a video game?

Android game apps are typically the most popular type of Android apps in the various Google Play, Amazon Appstore and other Android app stores.

Corona SDK is one of the most popular app and game mobile development platforms in the world, and Learn Corona SDK Game Development walks you through creating a full-featured Corona game from scratch to the App Store.

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4 is perfect for those who would like to come to grips with programming Unity.

In the last few years, Android has progressed with the debut of better fonts, new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs, tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, improved battery management techniques, and now Google TV Android Apps for the Android game app developer repertoire.

HTML5 Game Programming with enchant.

Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript teaches you everything you need to know about how to make video games.

Build your next game on a bigger scale with Pro HTML5 Games.

Beginning Android Games, Second Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations.

Apress, the leading Android books publisher, continues to provide you with very hands-on, practical books for teaching and showing app developers how to build and design apps, including game apps, that can be built and deployed in the various Android app stores out there.

In this groundbreaking collection of 15 interviews, successful founders of entertainment software companies reflect on their challenges and how they survived.