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Kickstart your game development journey with Godot 4 and create your own indie games from scratch in this part-color guide Key Features Implement custom scripts to control game logic and interactions Learn coding, design, and game mechanics...

Everybody has a story in them. Some people lack the language and the tools to tell that story effectively. As an avid Tabletop Role-Playing Game player, I'm amazed at people's ability to tell stories on the spot. Both the players and the game master are...

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts of directing on the motion capture floor and in the...

Game Design Critic and expert Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and confusing, genres out there. Metroidvania is a genre of high-highs and low-lows, and Josh is taking up the...

Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment 5th edition delves into the fascinating and groundbreaking stories enabled by interactive digital media, examining both fictional and non-fiction narratives. This fifth edition, Volume...

Event-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design. In this volume, an example of a practical...

Event-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design. An archetypal software production process, based...

This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through the different phases step by step. It follows a narrative approach, telling the story of a young game developer in a fictitious near-future setting who...

This book is for those who want to learn the craft or mechanics of animation, how to actually animate a scene from start to finish, or take their animation to the next level. Using over 600 examples, this book answers the questions about the craft of...

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games. The book gives readers the fundamentals of the craft and the skills needed to confidently create natural environments.Chapters cover everything from planning and...

Write and integrate C# scripts, develop game mechanics, enhance UI/UX, and build both 3D and 2D games, all while discovering advanced techniques in AI, multiplayer, and VR Key Features Master C# scripting and game mechanics in Unity, from basic...

This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through the different phases step by step. It follows a narrative approach, telling the story of a young game developer in a fictitious near-future-setting who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765113547Author Dr Matthew Thomas PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This comprehensive guide provides educators with everything they need to teach video game design fundamentals. With ready-made lesson plans, practical examples, assignment templates, exercises, video walkthroughs and learning materials in a modular...

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Get Into Game Dev: Tech Interview Tactics is a crash-course on how to pass a game development technical interview. It's designed to guide intermediate and experienced coders through the depth and rigor necessary to land some of the most highly...

Overcome challenges head-on in Unity 6 shader creation with the help of expert tips, practical solutions, and cutting-edge techniques from best-selling author John Doran Key Features Explore Shader Graph to develop expertise in post-processing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765113509Author Dr Matthew Thomas PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Once the privilege of a secret few, cryptography is now taught at universities around the world. Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software illustrates algorithms and cryptosystems using examples and the open-source computer algebra system of...

Get Into Game Dev: Tech Interview Tactics is a crash-course on how to pass a game development technical interview. It's designed to guide intermediate and experienced coders through the depth and rigor necessary to land some of the most highly...

Turn your love of video games into a new love of programming by learning the ins and outs of writing code while also learning how to keep track of high scores, what video game heroes and loot boxes are made of, how the dreaded RNG (random number...

This covers how to use the latest development tools to create your own Virtual World powered by the Unreal Engine. Each chapter will provide you with the necessary underpinning theory as well as activities to test your learning inside of the Unreal...

This book covers how to build materials and VFX that bring your projects to life in the Unreal Engine. Each chapter will provide you with the necessary underpinning theory as well as activities to test your learning inside of the Unreal Engine.You'll...

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Three continues the series with another collection of chapters from 18 of the top game AI professionals and researchers, from around the world. Each chapter includes wisdom, ideas, tips and tricks that were used in the...

Professor Craig Caldwell's Story Structure and Development provides a clear and practical approach to understanding the essentials of storytelling. This book distills fundamental elements, principles, and structures, explicitly tailored for animators,...

Professor Craig Caldwell's Story Structure and Development provides a clear and practical approach to understanding the essentials of storytelling. This book distills fundamental elements, principles, and structures, explicitly tailored for animators,...

Award-winning action adventure designers Christopher Totten and Adrian Sandoval guide you on a quest to create levels for different styles of 2D action-adventure games, from top-down dungeon-crawler adventures to side-scrolling non-linear "Metroidvania"...

This book provides a starting point for anyone interested in level and game design with zero prior knowledge. By analysing existing games and levels it introduces good design ideas and works towards communicating them in either design or practical...

Game Design Deep Dive: Real-Time Strategy, focuses on what was once one of the most popular genres in the world and the one that truly kicked off the rise of esports. It has seen the most fundamental changes as a genre than anything else, and Game Design...

Discover Unreal Engine 5's powerful features and advanced PCG tools with Senior Technical Artist and Unreal Instructor, Paul Martin Eliasz and enable real-time visualization to transform game development and craft immersive, dynamic 3D environments ...

Comprehensive guide to prompt engineering for ChatGPT, covering foundational principles and advanced techniques. Real-world examples and case studies showcasing the impact of well-crafted prompts This book provides a structured framework for exploring...

Getting Started in ZBrush is a gentle introduction to ZBrush, today's premier digital sculpting program. Beginning with the fundamentals of digital sculpting as well as a thorough introduction to the user interface, Getting Started in ZBrush will have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888360972Author Arnold RhinegoldFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Larsen & KellerPublisher Larsen & KellerWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

This entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series takes a look at the shooter genre: one that has grown with the times and whose influence can be felt from indie teams to major studios. Joshua Bycer breaks down the 30-plus-year history of one of the most...

This is a comprehensive guide to creating and customizing mods for the popular video game Farming Simulator within Blender. This book covers all aspects needed to create your own vehicle mods from start to finish.The book begins with a basic introduction...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. It begins with a high-level overview, then utilizes subsequent chapters to break this down into finer details, showing methods to approach the various problems and challenges involved in...

Immerse yourself in the stunning, dynamic world of Destiny with never-before-seen art and exclusive interviews from the Bungie team.The Art of Destiny, Volume 3 is a celebration of the stunning, dynamic visual style beloved by Destiny fans. Featuring...

As Android apps continue to grow in popularity and an associated job market emerges, the ability to develop software and applications for Android smartphones will only grow more relevant in the foreseeable future. Compiled from materials used in over a...

This book provides an industry professional's first-hand perspective on narrative design's practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsibilities, and keys to breaking in and succeeding. The book delves into the foundations of compelling storytelling...

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science introduces students to the discrete mathematics needed later in their Computer Science coursework with theory of computation topics interleaved throughout. Students learn about mathematical concepts just in...