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This book is a candid, practical, and inspiring look at building a sustainable, fulfilling career in game development. Drawing on over twenty years of experience across AAA studios and indie teams, the book covers everything from breaking into the...

How generative systems are reshaping the way games are made, how we experience them, and what this reveals about creativity itself.

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Five continues the series with another collection of chapters from twenty-three 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...

This book builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series of practical, rigorous exercises, designers can observe and analyze the failures and...

This is a comprehensive guide to the process of generating ideas for creating character and environment art. The book shows comprehensive workshops and techniques to embed the fundamentals of designing characters and environments for games and film. The...

This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to Games User Research (GUR). Blending theory and hands-on experience, it walks readers through methods, tools, and techniques tailored to the real-world constraints of small and medium-sized game...

By the 1980s animated cartoons were seen as an artform in decline. An archaic vestige of the old Hollywood studio system. Yet by the 1990s animation was booming. Blockbuster movies and TV shows, interactive games and special effects extravaganzas all...

This is the definitive guide on how to design game development tools. The book begins with the foundations of user experience and how they apply to game development tools, then guides you through the User-Centered Design process - the gold standard in...

This book offers an unflinching look at the creative and structural challenges of storytelling in interactive media. Drawing on over 30 years of industry experience, Kelly Vero explores the rich interplay between narrative, design and technology, making...

Game development is a high-stakes, high-pressure world where failure often feels inevitable, and success relies on navigating uncertainty. This book gives developers, producers and leaders the tools to manage risk proactively - before it becomes crisis...

Want to work as a game artist in the video game industry? Then this is the book for you. It's packed with practical advice and essential insights to help you understand how the industry works and how to get your foot in the door.This book covers...

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Four continues the series with another collection of chapters from twenty 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...

This book is an introduction to game studies, written in an approachable way that outlines useful perspectives that readers can use to interrogate games as a primary text. It provides the reader with a toolset that can 'level up' their own critical...

Playing with Balance: Game Economy Design is your guide to understanding why games are unlike any other medium: they are built on verbs, not nouns. Players don't just watch or read-they do. Every choice, action, and interaction forms part of a living...

Welcome to the fifth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices - the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and craft of game audio programming. In this volume, some of the top game audio programmers in the industry...

"Infinite Playgrounds: Gaming as the Architecture of Tomorrow" explores how gaming is rapidly evolving from entertainment into a driving force for culture, economy, and technology. It examines the convergence of artificial intelligence, blockchain, Web3,...

Upgrade your GameMaker programming skills with 500 programming challenges. The book is a collection of programming challenges, covering a range from simple to advanced concepts. GameMaker is a hugely popular tool and is regarded one of the best...

Want to work as a game artist in the video game industry? Then this is the book for you. It's packed with practical advice and essential insights to help you understand how the industry works and how to get your foot in the door.This book covers...

Grasp the concepts of creating games with GameMaker and the various features of the engine to create your first game. The book promotes critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity, making the process both engaging and effective. At 25 years old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049986Author Magy Seif El-NasrFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book provides a broad overview of editor extensions and modifications that can be made to speed up your workflow in the Unreal Engine. It covers tips for both initial content creation as well as debugging already existing content.The book explains...

Learn to procedurally generate 3D content for your next game or simulation using the Blender Python API and geometry nodes. Automate parts of your asset creation pipeline while producing a starter library of environments, weapons, and other objects ready...

This book shows how games can play their part in addressing climate change and how we can sustainably make games for sustainability. Based on both industry practice and research, the chapters within this book give voice to those who are working on...

This book aims to provide information and in-routes to one of the most complex forms of video game accessibility. It promises to explain how a developer might make their game accessible to the totally blind. It will break down what that means and provide...

Godot is a rapidly growing free and open-source game engine for creating 2D and 3D games, and interactive applications on many platforms, including desktop and mobile. There has been intense interest in this engine among game developers worldwide. This...

Leverage Unreal Engine to implement a wide variety of mechanics using C++. This book arms you with the knowledge and practices of game mechanics programming in C++, supported by detailed mathematical and programmatic explanations. Detailing everything...

Want to work as a producer in the video games industry? Then this is the book for you. This book provides all the essential information and guidance you need to understand the industry and get your foot on the ladder.The book covers everything from...

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...

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

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...

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

Learn what it takes to design a video game, as a hobby or as a career! Video Game Design For Dummies teaches you what it takes to design games from concept to completion. You'll learn the theory behind great gaming experiences, and you'll discover tools...

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 book analyzes the wave of roguelite games that have appeared over the past decade, putting them in historical context, informing readers about their development out of and relation to the roguelike genre that inspired them.The book includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765123577Author PhD Steven KielichFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint 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...

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