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Getting Started with Unity 5. Leverage the power of Unity 5 to create amazing 3D games
Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
If you are a game developer interested in learning Unity 3D from scratch and becoming familiar with its core features, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Unity 3D is required.
Francesco Sapio
Want to get started in the world of 2D game development with Unity? This book will take your hand and guide you through this amazing journey to let you know exactly what you need to build the games you want to build, without sacrificing quality. You will build a solid understanding of Unity 5.x, by focusing with the embedded tools to develop 2D games. In learning about these, along with accurate explanations and practical examples, you will design, develop, learn how to market and publish a delectable Tower Defense game about cupcakes versus pandas.Each chapter in this book is structured to give you a full understanding on a specific aspect of the workflow pipeline. Each of these aspects are essential for developing games in Unity. In a step-by-step approach, you will learn about each of the following phases: Game Design, Asset Importing, Scripting, User Interfaces, Animations, Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Gameplay Programming, Polishing and Improving, Marketing, Publishing and much more.This book provides you with exercises and homework at the end of each chapter so that you can level up your skills as a Unity game developer. In addition, each of these parts are centered on a common point of discussion with other learners just like you. Therefore, by sharing your ideas with other people you will not only develop your skills but you will also build a network.
Godot 4 for Beginners. Develop engaging 2D and 3D games with Godot 4's scripting and design features
Robert Henning, Sander Vanhove
Jumping into Godot 4 as a beginner can be overwhelming. You’re wrestling with a new interface, trying to wrap your head around how nodes and scenes work, and learning GDScript all at once. After years of teaching game development and creating YouTube tutorials, Robert Henning knows exactly where you’re likely to have those “wait, what?” moments. He’s built this guide to systematically address those challenges head-on, breaking down complex concepts into digestible steps.You’ll start by setting up Godot 4 and understanding its interface and tools. Then, you’ll dive into nodes and scenes, Godot’s way of organizing everything, which sounds intimidating but is actually quite intuitive. From there, you’ll explore both 2D and 3D game creation, adding key elements such as players, enemies, collectibles, and lighting effects that make your game pop visually. You’ll also get hands-on with Godot’s scripting language, GDScript, to bring your game ideas to life.By the end of this Godot 4 book, you’ll have the skills to build complete 2D and 3D games from scratch, covering everything from level design and game state management to score tracking and more. Whether you’re just getting started or are ready to level up, this book will help you turn your ideas into fully playable games.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Godot Engine Game Development Projects. Build five cross-platform 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.0
Chris Bradfield
Godot Engine Game Development Projects is an introduction to the Godot game engine and its new 3.0 version. Godot 3.0 brings a large number of new features and capabilities that make it a strong alternative to expensive commercial game engines. For beginners, Godot offers a friendly way to learn game development techniques, while for experienced developers it is a powerful, customizable tool that can bring your visions to life.This book consists of five projects that will help developers achieve a sound understanding of the engine when it comes to building games.Game development is complex and involves a wide spectrum of knowledge and skills. This book can help you build on your foundation level skills by showing you how to create a number of small-scale game projects. Along the way, you will learn how Godot works and discover important game development techniques that you can apply to your projects.Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach and practical examples, the book will take you from the absolute basics through to sophisticated game physics, animations, and other techniques. Upon completing the final project, you will have a strong foundation for future success with Godot 3.0.
Richard A. Hawley
This book is a practical guide with examples and clear steps to explain terrain modeling with Grome. If you’re a developer or artist looking for a guide to walk you through GROME 3.1, then this book is for you. This book will help you from the first step to exporting a terrain as a workable art asset in a game engine.
Grywalizacja. Mechanika gry na stronach WWW i w aplikacjach mobilnych
Gabe Zichermann, Christopher Cunningham
Zakoduj grywalizację w umysłach swoich klientów! Na rynku aplikacji jest już tak ciasno, że nowy produkt musi być zaskakujący, nowatorski i atrakcyjny, a ponadto gwarantować dużo przyjemności z użytkowania. Dopiero wtedy ma szansę konkurować z innymi, dostępnymi wcześniej. Warto więc zastanowić się nad tym, co sprawia, że jedna aplikacja zdobywa popularność, a druga o identycznej funkcjonalności nie może się przebić. Wszyscy autorzy pragną, aby ich dzieło należało do tej pierwszej kategorii. Jak to osiągnąć? Wszyscy wiedzą, jak gry potrafią wciągać. Często już po pierwszym uruchomieniu gracze mają problem, żeby zakończyć rozrywkę, i wracają do niej w każdej wolnej chwili. A gdyby zastosować mechanizmy stosowane w grach także w aplikacjach? Czy użytkownicy też mogliby się od nich uzależnić? Oczywiście! Proces ten nazywa się grywalizacją i jest powszechnie stosowany! W tej książce znajdziesz wiedzę niezbędną do wykorzystania tych elementów w Twojej aplikacji. Dzięki temu łatwiej osiągniesz sukces! Niezależnie od tego, czy jesteś producentem, projektantem, kierownikiem czy deweloperem gier, książka ta pozwoli Ci zrozumieć, jak tworzyć mechanikę gry zapewniającą lojalność klientów. Odkryj system motywacyjny stosowany przez projektantów gier do angażowania różnych typów klientów Poznaj podstawowe elementy mechaniki gry: punkty, odznaczenia, poziomy, wyzwania i tabele wyników Skuś klientów odpowiednią strukturą nagród, pozytywnym wzmocnieniem lub pętlami informacji zwrotnych Połącz grę z elementami społecznymi i działaniami takimi, jak zbieractwo, heroizm, chwalenie się lub dawanie prezentów Poznaj opisy systemów grywalizacji stosowanych przez Nike i Yahoo! oraz przeanalizuj rozwiązania firm Google, Facebook i Zynga Zaprojektuj i zaimplementuj grywalizację na prostej witrynie Gabe Zichermann to jeden z najlepszych ekspertów od grywalizacji. Jest przewodniczącym Gamification Summit and Workshops ( https://GSummit.com ). Christopher Cunningham to przedsiębiorca i ekspert od technologii informatycznych, który pomógł odkryć jedno z pierwszych rozwiązań dotyczących grywalizacji. Zachęć użytkowników do korzystania z Twojej aplikacji na okrągło!
Francesco Sapio
Learning how to apply artificial intelligence ( AI ) is crucial and can take the fun factor to the next level, whether you're developing a traditional, educational, or any other kind of game. If you want to use AI to extend the life of your games and make them challenging and more interesting, this book is for you.The book starts by breaking down AI into simple concepts to get a fundamental understanding of it. Using a variety of examples, you will work through actual implementations designed to highlight key concepts and features related to game AI in UE4. You will learn to work through the built-in AI framework in order to build believable characters for every game genre (including RPG, Strategic, Platform, FPS, Simulation, Arcade, and Educational). You will learn to configure the Navigation, Environmental Querying, and Perception systems for your AI agents and couple these with Behavior Trees, all accompanied with practical examples. You will also explore how the engine handles dynamic crowds. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to profile, visualize, and debug your AI systems to correct the AI logic and increase performance.By the end of the book, your AI knowledge of the built-in AI system in Unreal will be deep and comprehensive, allowing you to build powerful AI agents within your projects.
Micheal Lanham
The number of applications of deep learning and neural networks has multiplied in the last couple of years. Neural nets has enabled significant breakthroughs in everything from computer vision, voice generation, voice recognition and self-driving cars. Game development is also a key area where these techniques are being applied. This book will give an in depth view of the potential of deep learning and neural networks in game development. We will take a look at the foundations of multi-layer perceptron’s to using convolutional and recurrent networks. In applications from GANs that create music or textures to self-driving cars and chatbots. Then we introduce deep reinforcement learning through the multi-armed bandit problem and other OpenAI Gym environments.As we progress through the book we will gain insights about DRL techniques such as Motivated Reinforcement Learning with Curiosity and Curriculum Learning. We also take a closer look at deep reinforcement learning and in particular the Unity ML-Agents toolkit. By the end of the book, we will look at how to apply DRL and the ML-Agents toolkit to enhance, test and automate your games or simulations. Finally, we will cover your possible next steps and possible areas for future learning.
Rick Battagline
Within the next few years, WebAssembly will change the web as we know it. It promises a world where you can write an application for the web in any language, and compile it for native platforms as well as the web.This book is designed to introduce web developers and game developers to the world of WebAssembly by walking through the development of a retro arcade game. You will learn how to build a WebAssembly application using C++, Emscripten, JavaScript, WebGL, SDL, and HTML5.This book covers a lot of ground in both game development and web application development. When creating a game or application that targets WebAssembly, developers need to learn a plethora of skills and tools. This book is a sample platter of those tools and skills. It covers topics including Emscripten, C/C++, WebGL, OpenGL, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. The reader will also learn basic techniques for game development, including 2D sprite animation, particle systems, 2D camera design, sound effects, 2D game physics, user interface design, shaders, debugging, and optimization. By the end of the book, you will be able to create simple web games and web applications targeting WebAssembly.
Hands-On Game Development without Coding. Create 2D and 3D games with Visual Scripting in Unity
Lucas Bertolini
Hands-On Game Development without Coding is the first Visual Scripting book in the market. It was tailor made for a non programing audience who are wondering how a videogame is made.After reading this book you will be able to develop your own 2d and 3d videogames and use it on your presentations, to speed up your level design deliveries, test your game design ideas, work on your proofs of concept, or even doing it just for fun.The best thing about Hands-On Game Development without Coding is that you don’t need any previous knowledge to read and understand the process of creating a videogame. It is our main focus to provide you with the opportunity to create a videogame as easy and fast as possible.Once you go through the book, you will be able to create player input interaction, levels, object behaviours, enemy AI, creating your own UI and finally giving life to your game by building it.It’s Alive!
Micheal Lanham
With the increased presence of AI in the gaming industry, developers are challenged to create highly responsive and adaptive games by integrating artificial intelligence into their projects. This book is your guide to learning how various reinforcement learning techniques and algorithms play an important role in game development with Python.Starting with the basics, this book will help you build a strong foundation in reinforcement learning for game development. Each chapter will assist you in implementing different reinforcement learning techniques, such as Markov decision processes (MDPs), Q-learning, actor-critic methods, SARSA, and deterministic policy gradient algorithms, to build logical self-learning agents. Learning these techniques will enhance your game development skills and add a variety of features to improve your game agent’s productivity. As you advance, you’ll understand how deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques can be used to devise strategies to help agents learn from their actions and build engaging games.By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to apply reinforcement learning techniques to build a variety of projects and contribute to open source applications.
Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo, Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
Take your game development skills to the next level. Dive into the world of game creation confidently by elevating your game development skills. This book is your definitive and practical guide to unlocking the full potential of Unity 2023. Every chapter is designed to empower you to customize your own game, not just replicate what's in the book. This new edition includes immersive Augmented Reality (AR) experiences and performance optimization with Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS).From Scene Creation to seamless Assert Integration, dive into C# programming and Visual Scripting with step-by-step guidance for beginners. Implement dynamic gameplay elements, including movement, spawning, physics, and health systems. Delve deeper into the magic of Game AI through sensor-driven decision-making with Finite State Machines (FSMs). Elevate your visuals with materials, shaders, textures, and particle systems. Optimize performance with Profiler insights and debug your game for a polished final product. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, this book will equip you with the skills needed to bring your game ideas to life.
Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
Over the years, the Unity game engine has extended its scope from just being about creating video games to building AR/VR experiences, complex simulations, real-time realistic rendering, films, and serious games for training and education. Its features for implementing gameplay, graphics, and customization using C# programming make Unity a comprehensive platform for developing professional-level, rich experiences.With this book, you'll be able to build impressive Unity projects in a step-by-step manner and apply your knowledge of Unity concepts to create a real-world game. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to develop your first complete game using a variety of Unity tools. As you make progress, you'll learn how to make the most of the Unity Editor and create scripts using the C# programming language. This Unity game development book will then take you through integrating graphics, sound, and animations and manipulating physics to create impressive mechanics for your games. You'll also learn how to code a simple AI agent to challenge the user and use profiling tools to ensure that the code runs in a performant way. Finally, you'll get to grips with Unity's AR Foundation for creating AR experiences for 3D apps and games.By the end of this book, you'll have developed a complete game and will have built a solid foundation using Unity's tooling ecosystem to develop game projects of any scale.
Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
Learning how to use Unity is the quickest way to creating a full game, but that’s not all you can do with this simple, yet comprehensive suite of video game development tools – Unity is just as useful for creating AR/VR experiences, complex simulations, real-time realistic rendering, films, and practical games for training and education. Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development outlines a practical journey to creating your first full game from the ground up, building it step-by-step and applying your knowledge as you progress.Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to develop the game using several Unity tools. As you advance, you will learn how to use the Unity engine, create simple scripts using C#, integrate graphics, sound, and animations, and manipulate physics to create interesting mechanics for your game. You’ll be able to apply all the knowledge that you gain to a real-world game. Later chapters will show you how to code a simple AI agent to challenge the user and use profiling tools to ensure that the code runs efficiently. Finally, you'll work with Unity's AR tools to create AR experiences for 3D apps and games.By the end of this Unity book, you will have created a complete game and built a solid foundation in using a wide variety of Unity tools.
Alex Forrester, Eran Boudjnah, Alexandru Dumbravan, Jomar...
Written by four veteran developers with 60+ years of collective experience, this updated third edition will jumpstart your Android development journey, focusing on Kotlin libraries and Jetpack Compose, Google’s powerful declarative UI framework.You’ll learn the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to use Android Studio, as well as get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose’s layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. The book has been updated with Kotlin’s powerful networking and coroutines libraries to help you fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin flows. You’ll learn about testing, creating clean architecture, and persisting data, as well as exploring the dependency injection pattern and learning how to publish your apps on the Google Play Store. You'll also work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car.By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.
This book is for web designers who have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to create Canvas or DOM-based games that run on browsers.
Seng Hin Mak, Makzan Makzan (Mak Seng...
With a wide range of projects to build, this step-by-step guide will give you all the tools you need to create a variety of games. Whether you are familiar with the basics of object-oriented programming concepts, are new to HTML game development, or are familiar with just web design, this project-based book will get you up and running in no time. It will teach and inspire you to create great interactive content on the Web.
Bethany Hiitola
Learning to use Inkscape, an exciting open-source vector graphics program, broadens your software toolkit as a graphic designer. Using practical, real-world examples, you'll learn everything about the software and its capabilities so you'll be able to design anything from logos to websites.Inkscape Beginner's Guide is a practical step-by-step guide for learning this exciting vector graphics software. Not only will it take you through each menu item and toolbar, but you will also learn about creating complex shapes, text styling, filters, working with images, extensions, and the XML editoróall using real world examples.The book starts with an overview of vector graphics and how best to use them when designing for digital and print mediums. Then we install Inkscape and start learning all the ins and outs of the software. You'll build your first vector graphic while learning best practices for using layers, and build simple and complex objects with shapes and paths that will ultimately become exciting graphics to be used in your designs. Beyond designing sample logos and brochures while learning the software, you'll also learn how to use filters, install and use extensions, and the ins-and-outs of SVG and the XML Editor in Inkscape.
Chuck Gaffney
Game development has always been a combination of programming and art, and mobile game development is no exception to this rule. The iOS platform has been both a staple in the ever-growing mobile game market, as well as a launching point for many game developers (hobby and career-wise). The features and frameworks available in iOS 9 continue to cater to the synergy of design and computer engineering, using tools that allow developers to take a game idea from concept to application in record time.Whether you are new to iOS and game development as a whole, or are an experienced programmer wanting to learn the latest features of the platform, iOS 9 Game Development Essentials will provide you with crucial insight into this widely used platform.Starting with the Swift programming language, this book gets the ball rolling with code concepts and game-centric code samples right from the get-go, giving you get a solid understanding of Apple’s cutting-edge programming language. The book takes you through iOS game development concepts and introduces the various frameworks that allow you to develop robust, reusable, and intelligent game components in both 2D and 3D game environments.
Samanyu Chopra
Game development has always been an exciting subject for game enthusiasts and players and iOS game development takes a big piece of this cake in terms of perpetuating growth and creativity. With the newest version of iOS and Sprite Kit, comes a series of breathtaking features such as Metal rendering support, camera nodes, and a new and improved Scene Editor. Conceptualizing a game is a dream for both young and old. Sprite Kit is an exciting framework supported by Apple within the iOS development environment. With Sprite Kit, creating stunning games has become an easy avenue.Starting with the basics of game development and swift language, this book will guide you to create your own fully functional game. Dive in and learn how to build and deploy a game on your iOS platform using Sprite Kit game engine.Go on a detailed journey of game development on the iOS platform using the Sprite Kit game engine. Learn about various features implemented in iOS 8 that further increase the essence of game development using Sprite Kit. Build an endless runner game and implement features like physics bodies, character animations, scoring and other essential elements in a game. You will successfully conceive a 2D game along with discovering the path to reach the pinnacle of iOS game development.By the end of the book, you will not only have created an endless runner game but also have in-depth knowledge of creating larger games on the iOS platform.Style and approach An easy-to-follow, comprehensive guide that makes your learning experience more intriguing by gradually developing a Sprite Kit game. This book discusses each topic in detail making sure you attain a clear vision of the subject.
Chhavi Vaishnav
This book is for developers who are willing to explore iOS game programming in depth.Good knowledge level and understanding of iOS game development will be an added advantage. You should already have a working installation of Xcode and Sprite kit.
Jak zarabiać na aplikacjach i grach mobilnych
Piotr Stalewski
5 lat doświadczenia w jednej książce! Wiele osób w rynku mobilnym i aplikacjach mobilnych dopatruje się ogromnego potencjału finansowego. I słusznie, ponieważ urządzenia tego typu są znacznie bliżej ludzi niż dawne komputery stacjonarne czy nawet laptopy i notebooki. Towarzyszą ludziom niemal cały czas - dwadzieścia cztery godziny na dobę. Warto to wykorzystać. Dla kogo jest ta książka? Dla każdego, kogo ciekawi potencjał finansowy rynku mobilnego, dla każdego, kogo korci, by zbić na nim fortunę dzięki stworzeniu jednej, przełomowej aplikacji. Żeby nauczyć się, jak zarabiać na aplikacjach i grach mobilnych, nie trzeba umieć programować. Wystarczy mieć dobre pomysły, sporo zapału i marzenia. Ta książka ma jedno zadanie: wprowadzić Cię w świat aplikacji mobilnych od konkretnej strony (finansowej!). Rynek aplikacji mobilnych jest stosunkowo młody, ale już może pochwalić się bogatą historią. Autor tej książki także ma w niej swoje miejsce. Dlatego zaczyna od rysu historycznego, a następnie wymienia i omawia najważniejsze platformy pozwalające dystrybuować aplikacje. Podpowiada, jakie czynniki decydują o powodzeniu aplikacji i jak zaprojektować produkt tak, by na siebie zarabiał. A ponieważ bez dobrej promocji nawet najciekawsze pomysły zaginą w tłumie, podsuwa też najskuteczniejsze sposoby reklamowania aplikacji, które mają przynosić radość użytkownikom i… pieniądze twórcom! Realne pieniądze z mobilnej platformy Piotr Stalewski – absolwent informatyki na Politechnice Warszawskiej czynnie działający na rynku aplikacji mobilnych od 2007 roku. Wyróżniany w międzynarodowych konkursach na aplikacje mobilne, organizowanych m.in. przez Nokię (2007) czy Google (ADC2 2009). Studiował w Danii, pracował w międzynarodowych firmach związanych z rynkiem mobilnym (Opera Software), a także pisał własne aplikacje dla różnych platform (Symbian, J2ME, Android, iOS). Posiada rozległą wiedzę z zakresu marketingu, promocji i brandingu mobilnego, mobilnych interfejsów użytkownika, mechanizmów spieniężania na dostępnych platformach mobilnych. Jest współzałożycielem firmy Evil Indie Games, autorem artykułów o rynku aplikacji mobilnych i współtwórcą portalu mobilnidranie.pl. Prywatnie jest autorem powieści Kubuś i Templariusze oraz pasjonatem fotografii.
Rickard Eden
If you are a jMonkey developer or a Java developer who is interested to delve further into the game making process to expand your skillset and create more technical games, then this book is perfect for you.
Selim Arsever
jQuery is a leading multi-browser JavaScript library that developers across the world utilize on a daily basis to help simplify client-side scripting. Using the friendly and powerful jQuery to create games based on DOM manipulations and CSS transforms allows you to target a vast array of browsers and devices without having to worry about individual peculiarities.jQuery Game Development Essentials will teach you how to use the environment, language, and framework that you're familiar with in an entirely new way so that you can create beautiful and addictive games. With concrete examples and detailed technical explanations you will learn how to apply game development techniques in a highly practical context.This essential reference explains classic game development techniques like sprite animations, tile-maps, collision detection, and parallax scrolling in a context specific to jQuery. In addition, there is coverage of advanced topics specific to creating games with the popular JavaScript library, such as integration with social networks alongside multiplayer and mobile support. jQuery Game Development Essentials will take you on a journey that will utilize your existing skills as a web developer so that you can create fantastic, addictive games that run right in the browser.