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Shows readers how to use the Unity game engine, a multi platform engine and editor in one, to build games. Suitable for those looking to create games with an easy, efficient, and inexpensive game engine, this title covers topics ranging from building game assets, to adding interactivity, to polishing your finished game and publishing it.

A hands-on guide that is suitable for beginner-level game programmers who want to learn how to create games using the version of the Java SDK, Java 6. Written in simple language, this book teaches each skill using engaging tutorials, followed by end-of-chapter questions and exercises to help reinforce what you've just learned.

Teaches teens and other beginners how to create games using C# and Windows Forms (GDI+). This beginner's guide covers each essential step for creating a complete role-playing game, including a character creation screen and a combat system. It also shows students how to load and draw bitmaps, create sprites, and render a game world.

Discover the exciting world of game programming and 3D graphics creation using DirectX 11! BEGINNING DIRECTX 11 GAME PROGRAMMING is an introductory guide to creating fantastic graphics, amazing creatures, and realistic worlds for games. Written specifically for the beginner programmer, the book uses step-by-step instructions to teach the basics of DirectX 11, introducing skills that can be applied...

This book, the second volume in the popular Game Engine Gems series, contains short articles that focus on a particular technique, describe a clever trick, or offer practical advice within the subject of game engine development. The 31 chapters cover three broad categoriesa "graphics and rendering, game engine design, and systems programming. Professional game developers, students of game developm...

Basics of Game Design is for anyone wanting to become a professional game designer. Focusing on creating the game mechanics for data-driven games, it covers role-playing, real-time strategy, first-person shooter, simulation, and other games. Written by a 25-year veteran of the game industry, the guide offers detailed explanations of how to design the data sets used to resolve game play for moving,...

Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math. Aimed primarily at teachers and education researchers, but also of interest to game developers who want to produce videogames for mathematics education, Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning describes exactly what is involve...

Addresses the mathematical skills that a programmer needs to develop a 3D game engine and computer graphics for professional-level games. This title is suitable for advanced programmers who are experienced with C++, DirectX, or OpenGL. It also covers areas such as vector geometry and linear algebra, and then progresses to 3D game programming.

Guides you through creating your own augmented reality apps for the iPhone, Android, Symbian, and bada platforms, featuring workable and downloadable source code. This book describes how to use the latitude/longitude coordinate system to build location-aware solutions and tells where to get POIs for your own augmented reality applications.

"This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed ...

A how-to guide to creating games for the classroom. It shows the reader how to create a teaching tool that can engage and excite students by using styles and formats found in popular video games. It helps readers learn how to create a variety of multiplayer games on any subject, following the techniques and case studies presented.

"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. The first gems-type book dedicated to game tools, this volume focuses on practical, implementable tools for game development professionals. Topics range from asset ...

Students hoping to enter the industry have a lot of questions: What should be in their portfolios? How do they make contacts? How much do game designers make? What should they wear to interviews? In this guide, the authors answer these questions and more, including the ones readers didn't know to ask.

Shows teens and other beginners how to make fun, fantasy role-playing games that they can play and distribute on their computers using the easy-to-learn RPG Maker VX 1.20 program. This book uses step-by-step lessons and includes tips from game design professionals.