Take your game development skills to the next level with one of the best engines on the marketKey Features\[\*\]Build an entire AAA game level throughout the book\[\*\]Take your C++ scripting skills to the next level and use them extensively to build the game\[\*\]An advanced practical guide with a tutorial style approach that will help you make the best of Unreal engine 4Book DescriptionUnreal Engine 4 has garnered a lot of ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.What you will learnWho this book is forIf you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.

Want to develop games for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7? This hands-on book will get you started with Microsoft's XNA 4.0 development framework right away -- even if you have no experience developing games. Although XNA includes several key concepts that can be difficult for beginning web developers to grasp, Learning XNA 4.0 shortens the learning curve by walking you through the framework in a clear and understandable step-by-step format.Each chapter offers a self-containe...

If you have an idea for a game but lack the skills to create it, this book is the perfect introduction. There’s lots of handholding through all the essentials, culminating in the building of a full 3D game.Key FeaturesKick start your game development, and build ready-to-play 3D games with ease.Understand key concepts in game design including scripting, physics, instantiation, particle effects, and more.Test & optimize your game to perfection ...

A seat-of-your-pants manual for building fun, groovy little games quickly with Unity 3.xKey FeaturesBuild fun games using the free Unity game engine even if you've never coded beforeLearn how to "skin" projects to make totally different games from the same file – more games, less effort!Deploy your games to the Internet so that your friends and family can play themPacked with ideas, inspiration, and advice for your own game design an...

Unity for Absolute Beginners walks you through the fundamentals of creating a small third-person shooter game with Unity. Using the free version of Unity to begin your game development career, you'll learn how to import, evaluate and manage your game resources to create awesome third-person shooters. This book assumes that you have little or no experience with game development, scripting, or 3D assets, and that you're eager to start creating games as quickly as possible, while lea...

Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences - a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on trac...

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Fourth Edition, is the guide to the Inkscape program. With coverage of versions 0.47 and 0.48, this authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations.Using Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector-based drawing language and W3C web standard, as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed...

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4 is perfect for those who would like to come to grips with programming Unity. You may be an artist who has learned 3D tools such as 3ds Max, Maya, or Cinema 4D, or you may come from 2D tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator. On the other hand, you may just want to familiarize yourself with programming games and the latest ideas in game production.This book introduces key game production concepts in an artist-friendly way, and rapi...

Create monetized games for iOS and Android with minimum cost and code with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesBuild once and deploy your games to both iOS and AndroidCreate commercially successful games by applying several monetization techniques and toolsCreate three fun games and integrate them with social networks such as Twitter and FacebookBook DescriptionCorona SDK is the fastest and easiest way to create commercially succ...

Learn ActionScript 3.0 the fun way, by creating 16 great games: real, robust games - not just "web toys"!Highly-rated ActionScript tutorial, now with seven new 3D and card games!Code and techniques easily adaptable to training, advertising, and moreFor Flash artists learning ActionScript, Flash programmers seeking to create games, and upgraders from ActionScript 1.0/2.0.Includes a chapter on developing games in Flash for the iPhone!G...

A short book with a lot of hands-on examples to help you learn in a practical way. This book is great for users, developers, and consultants who know the basic functions and processes of a GIS but want to know how to use QGIS to achieve the results they are used to a full-fledged GIS.