Games development and programming

Follow a walkthrough of the Unity Engine and learn important 2D-centric lessons in scripting, working with image assets, animations, cameras, collision detection, and state management.

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol.

What is artificial intelligence?

Beginning Android 4 Games Development offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers.

Using Unreal Engine 3, the authors teach aspiring game makers the fundamentals of designing a computer game.

With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.

This book is written by a professional instructor and founder of CartoonSmart.

Game Design Deep Dive: Roguelikes examines the history and rise of the often-confusing roguelike genre.

Classical music is everywhere in video games.

Jump start your Unity game development journey with a detailed review of a complete, professionally built game using Unity, C#, and Visual Studio.

Computer programming with Java is easier than it looks.

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.

Game Programming for Artists provides a foundation for artists and creatives to jumpstart learning to program their own games.

This book teaches beginners and aspiring game developers how to develop 2D games with Unity.

Build a high-end, multiplayer role-playing game (RPG) from scratch with C# and Unity 2018Key FeaturesGet insights into Unity's user interface (UI) system and and build UIs for your RPGImplement artificial intelligence (AI) to build intelligent entities that take your game to the next levelDevelop multiplayer features for an RPG using Unity 2018Book DescriptionIn a role-playing game (RPG), users control a character, usually in the game's imaginary universe.

Professor Odile Limpach gives independent developers everything they need to succeed in the world of video game publishing.

Learn the art of making Android games and turn your game development dreams into realityAbout This BookLeverage the latest features of Android N to create real-world 2D gamesArchitect a 2D game from scratch and level up your Android game development skillTransition from developing simple 2D games to 3D games using basic Java code Who This Book Is ForIf you are a mobile developer who has basic Java programming knowledge, then this book is ideal for you.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the theory, research, and practice of the use of digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning (L2TL).

This project-based tutorial covers the creation of 3D assets in a game engine, from concept to implementation.

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games.

Graphics, 3D modeling, and animation are the cornerstones of not only the video game industry, but also the motion picture industry, digital lighting, and many other professions.

From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike.

This book addresses emerging issues in usability, interface design, human-computer interaction, user experience and assistive technology.

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

This book provides a comprehensive and practically minded introduction into serious games for law enforcement agencies.

This book offers a perspective into a phenomenon becoming more and more common: AAA developers 'going indie'.

Learn how to program JavaScript while creating interactive audio applications with JavaScript for Sound Artists: Learn to Code With the Web Audio API!

Imagine a robot greeting you at an office or taking your order at a restaurant.

Game design is changing.

Steve Rabin's Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers character behavior in game AI.

This student-friendly book provides an accessible overview of the primary debates about the effects of video games.

Design and create video games using Construct 2.

This book teaches beginners and aspiring game developers how to develop 3D games with Unity.

This book is the perfect toolkit for any developer who wishes to transform an idea into a viable business.

Wolfgang Engel's GPU Pro 360 Guide to Geometry Manipulation gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous seven GPU Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers geometry manipulation in computer graphics.

Written by an expert in the game industry, Christer Ericson's new book is a comprehensive guide to the components of efficient real-time collision detection systems.

In this book, veteran game developers, academics, journalists, and others provide their processes and experiences with level design.

Program 3D Games in C++: The #1 Language at Top Game Studios Worldwide C++ remains the key language at many leading game development studios.

A practical introduction, the second edition of Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics shows you how to animate fully three-dimensional incompressible flow.

The indie game developer's complete guide to running a studio.

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAgainst the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core 'gamers', Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all into writing and designing complex and emotionally affecting narrative video games.

It's time to stop thinking that shaders are magical.

This book provides insights into the state of the art of digital cultural heritage using computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, visualization and reconstruction, virtual and augmented reality and serious games.

In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play.

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

Create a fully working multiplayer game from scratch using TypeScript, Socket.

This book presents concepts and methods for optimal training for decision making in crisis situations.

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume.