Games

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993474408Author Gary PlowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Gazzapper PressPublisher Gazzapper Press

Bring your artwork to life with the power of the FORCE! Watch, listen, and follow along as Mike Mattesi demonstrates the fundamental FORCE line and explains dynamic figure drawing techniques through 30 videos that are launched through the book's...

The official companion book for the indie horror-mystery game Sally Face featuring concept art and creative insight from the game's developer, Steve Gabry. Sally Face is a gripping horror-mystery game that follows a boy with a prosthetic face. Sal...

Learn how to design, build and customise 20 mini-projects in Minecraft, from firefighter planes and deep-sea submarines to hidden bunkers and mini arcade games. There's even a superhero flying school! With detailed instructions, block hacks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869931333Author Future PressFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Future Press Verlag und Marketing GmbHPublisher Future Press Verlag und Marketing GmbH

Coding with Scratch - Create Awesome Platform Games shows kids how to create amazing platform games with Scratch. They will learn how to: Use code to make a series of games where sprites leap from platform to platform.Design different levels, draw...

Discover how to create over 20 more awesome builds! Learn how to design, build and customise 20 mini-projects in Minecraft, from pig hot-air balloons and wishing wells to giant grandfather clocks and horse-racing circuits. There's even an...

The latest volume in the bestselling Bite-Size Builds series. If you enjoyed the first Minecraft Bite-Size Builds book, you'll love this second volume, jam-packed with all-new builds for you to try out! Why not...

An unofficial guide to Alien: Isolation, the greatest, scariest horror game ever made.There aren't many computer games that can justify an entire book, but for superfans, Alien: Isolation is truly extraordinary and Perfect Organism reveals all there is...

If you want to enrich your game's experience with physics-based realism, the expanded edition of this classic book details physics principles applicable to game development. You'll learn about collisions, explosions, sound, projectiles, and other effects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538725429Author Jason SchreierFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm...

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990582908Author Robert NystromFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Genever BenningPublisher Genever BenningWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Coding with Python - Create Amazing Graphics introduces coding in Python through a variety of projects. Each one teaches new coding concepts and results in some amazing graphics.Python is a powerful, text-based programming language essential to grasp for...

Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book. Based on author Mark Lutz's popular training course, this updated fifth edition will help you quickly write efficient, high-quality code with Python. It's an...

This innovative text examines videogames and gaming from the point of view of discourse analysis. In particular, it studies two major aspects of videogame-related communication: the ways in which videogames and their makers convey meanings to their...

Object-Oriented Python is an intuitive and thorough guide to mastering object-oriented programming from the ground up. You'll cover the basics of building classes and creating objects, and put theory into practice using the pygame package with clear...

Coding with Scratch - Create Fantastic Driving Games will take you from Scratch basics through to creating your own fantastic driving games in easy steps. Each game comes with challenges to take you to the next level of coding. Even includes mods to make...

Beginning Java 8 Games Development, written by Java expert and author Wallace Jackson, teaches you the fundamentals of building a highly illustrative game using the Java 8 programming language. In this book, you'll employ open source software as tools to...

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Coding with Roblox Lua in 24 Hours: The Official Roblox Guide helps you learn all the skills and techniques you'll need to code your own Roblox games. Perfect for beginners, each short and easy lesson builds upon...

Learn how to create compelling game storylines.Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create this all-inclusive guide on what it's like to work as a writer and narrative designer in the...

Coding with HTML & JavaScript - Create Epic Computer Games is ideal for readers who want to learn the basics of making games with HTML and JavaScript - programming languages used by professional game developers.Step-by-step, this book will guide you to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535296Author Alyse KnorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Boss Fight BooksPublisher Boss Fight BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 177mm * 129mm...

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations. Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology...

This comprehensive guide walks readers through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements, finding opportunities, applying for roles, and...

Take it to the next level! Bursting with the biggest games, latest trends, and hottest news, Next Level Games Review 2023 is the ultimate annual gaming guide. Inside you'll discover a recap of the last twelve months...

Journey into the Nether (if you dare) in this Step Into Reading Step 3 Levelled Reader, the only official levelled reader series based on Minecraft, the world's best-selling video game! Learn to read with the official Minecraft Young Readers!...

Making a successful video game is hard. Even games that are well-received at launch may fail to engage players in the long term due to issues with the user experience (UX) that they are delivering. That's why makers of successful video games like...

Drawing on an impressive roster of experts in the field, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fifth Edition offers an ideal resource for computer course curricula as well as a user-friendly personal or professional reference.Focusing on geometric...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart-and the...

Launch into coding with Mission: Python, a space-themed guide to building a complete computer game in Python. As you work through the book, you'll build exercises and mini-projects, like making a spacewalk simulator and creating an astronaut's safety...

What is artificial intelligence? Can I realistically use it in my school? What's best done by human intelligence vs. artificial intelligence, and how do I bring these strengths together? What would it look like for me, and my school, to be AI Ready?AI...

Digital Image Processing with C++: Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library presents the theory of digital image processing and implementations of algorithms using a dedicated library. Processing a digital image means transforming its...

Step into the Overworld in this Step Into Reading Levelled Reader, the only official levelled reader series based on Minecraft, the world's best-selling video game! Learn to read with the official Minecraft Young Readers! Practise your reading...

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...

BEGINNING C++ THROUGH GAME PROGRAMMING, THIRD EDITION approaches learning C++ from the unique and fun perspective of games. Written for the beginning game developer or programmer, the book assumes no previous programming experience and each new skill and...

"Game Feel" exposes "feel" as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord progressions, verse) - no matter the instruments, style or time...

Nobuo Uematsu is one of the most influential Japanese composers of the current age. One of Japan's most beloved living composers, he has been composing music for the popular franchise since 1987, inspiring a new generation of classical music fans, and...

Praise for the first edition:... superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to explain the basic mathematical and biological concepts clearly and...

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. It introduces the concept of creative sobriety, a practice that advocates better...