Games development and programming

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.

Physics is really important to game programmers who need to know how to add physical realism to their games.

This book addresses the new interaction modalities that are becoming possible with new devices by looking at user interfaces from an input perspective.

A novel approach for the classroom or self-study, Learn to Code with Games makes coding accessible to a broad audience.

Want to work in UI/UX in the video games industry?

Learn game development using Python with hands-on examples covering graphics, sound, AI, and networking.

Learn game development using Python with hands-on examples covering graphics, sound, AI, and networking.

This book explores the influential work of Eugene Jarvis, designer of the wildly-successful arcade games Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV, and Cruis'n USA, among others.

By finding and building around a strong core mechanism, we can access new levels of elegance and discover fresh new ideas in our game designs.

GPU Pro3, the third volume in the GPU Pro book series, offers practical tips and techniques for creating real-time graphics that are useful to beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.

This book unveils the secrets of extraordinarily successful games and hands you a smarter way to create exceptional engagement and convert it into revenue.

This is a comprehensive guide to creating and customizing mods for the popular video game Farming Simulator within Blender.

This book provides a starting point for anyone interested in level and game design with zero prior knowledge.

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 presents some of the most interesting iPhone and iPad games, along with stories of the people behind these games.

Make More Immersive and Engaging Magic Systems in GamesGame Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore, encompassing the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in games and human belief.

This is a clear, accessible manual of storytelling techniques and learning activities for spatial computing, augmented reality and mixed reality.

Engineers and scientists have been developing AI since the 1950s, and it has come a long way since then!

Learn to recreate iconic arcade games using Unity.

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

People imagined artificial intelligence as far back as the early 1900s.

This book unveils the secrets of extraordinarily successful games and hands you a smarter way to create exceptional engagement and convert it into revenue.

Award-winning action-adventure designers Christopher Totten and Adrian Sandoval guide you on a quest to create levels for different styles of 2D action-adventure games, from top-down dungeon-crawler adventures to side-scrolling non-linear "e;Metroidvania"e; titles.

Master the intricacies of Unity's character controllers with a deep dive into Unity's Starter Assets.

Want to work as an audio professional in the video games industry?

Audio Anecdotes is a book about digital sound.