The Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play.Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interf...

This volume deals with core problems in robotics, like motion planning, sensor-based planning, manipulation, and assembly planning. It also discusses the application of robotics algorithms in other domains, such as molecular modeling, computer graphics, and image analysis. Topics Include: - Planning - Sensor Based Motion Planning - Control and Moti

If you have ever been wondering what android programming is all about then this is the book that you need to get. It contains all the basics of this type of programming, how to build an app and much, much more.The author goes to great lengths to break all the information down to be as basic as possible so that the reader that is not as confident in their abilities as others are will be able to follow the instructions and get a foot into the world of android programming.This...

Reduce stress with timesaving database shortcutsExplore database basics and build tables and reports that corral your dataAccess has undergone an extreme makeover! Whether you've used one of the older versions or this is your first exposure to Access, here's where you'll find the essentials you need to make this database system work for you. Cruise around the new interface, team up Access with other Office applications, use wizards to autom...

How To Publish eBooks For Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod, Nook & Kobo There are expensive software tools available to automatically create ePub books or free conversion tools to convert from Microsoft Word, PDF, etc. But why hassle with them when their resulting eBook is sub-optimal and you spend more time later trying to fix the output files? What we will show you is a way to manually create an ePub publication from scratch using our proven ePub template.

A unique, comprehensive guide to creating custom apps with VBAAutomating computing tasks to increase productivity is a goal for businesses of all sizes. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a version of Visual Basic designed to be easily understandable for novice programmers, but still powerful enough for IT professionals who need to create specialized business applications. With this invaluable book, you'll learn how to extend the capabilities of Office 2013 app...

Updated For Version 1.3 of GameMaker Studio. Learn Drag&Drop and GML as work your way through 6 games. Step-By-Step instructions with lots of easy to follow screen-shots. Learn to make: Hangman game, Tower Defense game, Spot the Difference Game, Matching Game and a Brick and Ball Game. You'll be amazed how much you'll learn from this book. Aimed at beginner to novice gamemakers. 250 pages packed full of code and explanations. If you're starting out with GameMaker Studio, then this is the b...

Learn Game Design, Prototyping, and Programming with Today’s Leading Tools: Unity™ and C#Award-winning game designer and professor Jeremy Gibson has spent the last decade teaching game design and working as an independent game developer. Over the years, his most successful students have always been those who effectively combined game design theory, concrete rapid-prototyping practices, and programming skills.Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development...

With this book and your basic programming knowledge, you ll find it easy to use LiveCode to create mobile apps for Android and iOS. A great starting point for taking the app store by storm.Key FeaturesCreate fun, interactive apps with rich media features of LiveCodeStep-by-step instructions for creating apps and interfacesDive headfirst into mobile application development using LiveCode backed with clear explanations enriched with ample screens...

This is a practical and light-hearted guide to get to grips with creating your first games, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials using the award winning Unity engine.If you've ever wanted to enter the world of independent game development but have no prior knowledge of programming or game development, then this is the book for you. Game developers transitioning from other tools like GameMaker and Flash will find this a useful tool to get them up to speed on the Unity engine, as will...

Beginning Xcode, Swift Edition will not only get you up and running with Apple's latest version of Xcode, but it also shows you how to use Swift in Xcode and includes a variety of projects to build.If you already have some programming experience with iOS SDK and Objective-C, but want a more in-depth tutorial on Xcode, especially Xcode with Apple’s new programming language, Swift, then Beginning Xcode, Swift Edition is for you. The book focuses on the new technolog...

Newly Edited and Updated Version (Third Edition) for Unity 2020Learn C# with Unity, and create a full FPS game without the headachesWithout this book, most people spend too long trying to learn C# with Unity the hard way. This book is the only one that will get you to learn Unity fast without wasting so much time. It includes twelve chapters that painlessly teach you the necessary skills to create an FPS game and to learn intermediate C# and Unity techniques...