Games development and programming

Composing Music for Games is a guidebook for launching and maintaining a successful career as a video game composer.

Get ahead of the game with Unity 4.

Build immersive game experiences using the new Unity 2020 features with this practical guideKey FeaturesUnleash the capabilities of C# scripting for creating immersive UI, graphics, Game AI agents and much moreExplore Unity's latest tools, including Universal Render Pipeline, Shader Graph, and VFX graph, to enhance graphics and animationGet started with building augmented reality experience using Unity's AR FoundationBook DescriptionOver the years, the Unity game engine has extended its scope from just being about creating video games to building AR/VR experiences, complex simulations, real-time realistic rendering, films, and serious games for training and education.

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

This book is a fast-paced look at the next two decades of the games industry with a focus on game design, the evolution of gaming markets around the world, the future of technology, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, crypto-currency, and the art and business of creating and publishing hit games.

This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games.

Understand the core concepts of deep learning and deep reinforcement learning by applying them to develop gamesKey FeaturesApply the power of deep learning to complex reasoning tasks by building a Game AIExploit the most recent developments in machine learning and AI for building smart gamesImplement deep learning models and neural networks with PythonBook DescriptionThe number of applications of deep learning and neural networks has multiplied in the last couple of years.

Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms, Second Edition compiles hundreds of game mechanisms, organized by category.

The Reverse Design series looks at all of the design decisions that went into classic video games.

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

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Create engaging Augmented Reality (AR) applications with Unity 3D that can be experienced with devices such as HoloLens and DaydreamKey FeaturesLearn the principles of AR application development Work with the most popular sensors used in AR games and applications across Android, Apple and WindowsBuild experiences with interactive objects, physics, UI, animations, and C# scriptingBook DescriptionAugmented Reality allows for radical innovations in countless areas.

Steve Rabin's Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Tactics and Strategy gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers game AI strategy and tactics.

Do you remember landmark games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Asteroids?

Wolfgang Engel's GPU Pro 360 Guide to Shadows gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous seven GPU Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers various algorithms that are used to generate shadow data.

Over the last decade, progress in deep learning has had a profound and transformational effect on many complex problems, including speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.

Are you really into cooking?

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

This volume provides an in-depth examination of the video game Death Stranding, focusing on the game's exploration of ruin, nostalgia, and atonement as its primary symbolic, narrative, and mechanical language.

Advances in 3D visualization and physics-based simulation technology make it possible for game developers to create compelling, visually immersive gaming environments that were only dreamed of years ago.

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.

Get Started Quickly with DirectX 3D Programming: No 3D Experience Needed This step-by-step text demystifies modern graphics programming so you can quickly start writing professional code with DirectX and HLSL.

Learn C++ the quick, easy, and "e;lazy"e; way.

Steve Rabin's Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Movement and Pathfinding gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology covering movement and pathfinding in game AI.

Drawing on decades of experience, Beep to Boom: The Development of Advanced Runtime Sound Systems for Games and Extended Reality is a rigorous, comprehensive guide to interactive audio runtime systems.

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

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox continues where the Game Narrative Toolbox ended.

By completing these story-based projects, readers will gain a solid baseline in coding and have fun while learning.

This second edition of C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D expounds upon the first with more details and techniques.

Dive into the heart of game development with Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), the latest revolution in creating immersive and visually stunning game worlds.

Situational Design lays out a new methodology for designing and critiquing videogames.

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to state-of-the-art Unreal Tournament 3 modding and level design.

So, you think you know Terraria?

Gain an in-depth knowledge in immersive web development to create augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications inside web browsers using WebXR API, WebGL, Three.

Game development is one of the most rewarding crafts of modern times.

This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video games.

This book brings together the knowledge and perspectives of numerous past and present games industry leaders and practitioners to form a clear picture of how leadership operates in a game development studio.

Build rich, high production value mobile games and distribute them across different platforms with BuildboxAbout This BookCreate captivating 2D & 2.

From a steamy jungle to a modern city, or even a sci-fi space station, 3D Game Environments is the ultimate resource to help you create AAA quality art for a variety of game worlds.

This book posits a novel framework for sense making and meaning making in the play of video games.

Do you have what it takes to become a game developer?

Floating point is ubiquitous in computers, where it is the default way to represent non-integer numbers.

Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior?

Professor Craig Caldwell's Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story.

Get a head start on making your games efficiently by avoiding common design and development pitfalls.

Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a critically acclaimed, bestselling space flight simulator game.