3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender. Combine the powerful UE4 with Blender to create visually appealing and comprehensive game environments

Jessica Plowman

Unreal Engine 4 now has support for Blender, which was not available in earlier versions. This has opened up new possibilities and that is where this book comes in. This is the first book in the market combining these two powerful game and graphic engines. Readers will build an amazing high-level game environment with UE4 and will show them how to use the power of Blender 3D to create stunning animations and 3D effects for their game. This book will start with creating levels, 3D assets for the game, game progression, light and environment control, animation, and so on. Then it will teach readers to add amazing visual effects to their game by applying rendering, lighting, rigging, and compositing techniques in Blender. Finally, readers will learn how to smoothly transfer blender files to UE4 and animate the game assets. Each chapter will add complexities to the game environment.

3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner's Guide. A practical guide to creating real-time responsive online 3D games in Silverlight 3 using C#, XBAP WPF, XAML, Balder, and Farseer Physics Engine

Gaston C. Hillar

Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plug-in that enables the animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight is a great (and growing) RIA platform and games are the next level to exploit in it. But it doesn't offer 3D capabilities out of the box and integrating a 3D engine can involve lot of complex mathematics and matrix algebra. This book will help C# developers to get their fingers on the pulse of 3D in Silverlight.This book uses Balder, an open source 3D engine offering 3D capabilities for Silverlight 3. It leaves out boring matrix algebra and complex 3D mathematics. By the end of the book you will have explored the entire engine, and will be able to design and program your own 3D games with ease!The book begins by introducing you to the fundamental concepts of 2D games and then drives you into the 3D world, using easy-to-follow, step-by-step examples. The book employs amazing graphics and impressive performance, and increasingly adds more features to a 3D game giving you a rich interactive experience.By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn the important concepts, from the creation of the initial models, up to the addition of physics and artificial intelligence.The book helps you to provide realistic behaviors for 3D characters by enveloping models with different textures, using lights to create effects, animating multiple 3D characters using a physics engine (Farseer Physics Engine), and simulating real-life physics. Videos, music, and sounds associated with specific events offer the final touches to the 3D game development learning experience.

3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook. A comprehensive guide to exploring rendering algorithms in modern OpenGL and Vulkan

Sergey Kosarevsky, Viktor Latypov

OpenGL is a popular cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) used for rendering 2D and 3D graphics, while Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics API that targets high-performance applications. 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook helps you learn about modern graphics rendering algorithms and techniques using C++ programming along with OpenGL and Vulkan APIs.The book begins by setting up a development environment and takes you through the steps involved in building a 3D rendering engine with the help of basic, yet self-contained, recipes. Each recipe will enable you to incrementally add features to your codebase and show you how to integrate different 3D rendering techniques and algorithms into one large project. You'll also get to grips with core techniques such as physically based rendering, image-based rendering, and CPU/GPU geometry culling, to name a few. As you advance, you'll explore common techniques and solutions that will help you to work with large datasets for 2D and 3D rendering. Finally, you'll discover how to apply optimization techniques to build performant and feature-rich graphics applications.By the end of this 3D rendering book, you'll have gained an improved understanding of best practices used in modern graphics APIs and be able to create fast and versatile 3D rendering frameworks.

Abecadło Małego Człowieka

Paweł Pabianiak

Zestaw wierszyków i rymowanek dla dzieci pod wspólnym tytułem “Abecadło Małego Człowieka”. Wierszyki i rymowanki mają jedną wspólną cechę – każda z nich poświęcona jest jednej literze polskiego alfabetu, a w szczególności w każdej rymowance jedna litera jest szczególnie obecna (najczęściej jako pierwsza litera słów używanych w rymowance, a tam gdzie to niemożliwe – możliwie często użyta w danej rymowance litera). Przeznaczony dla dzieci w wieku 3-7 lat, poznających litery, uczących się nowych wyrazów i posługiwania językiem polskim.

Actionable Gamification. Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

Yu-kai Chou

Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user experience, and ROI-driving business implementations. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines and captures the core principles that contribute to a good gamification design.The book starts with an overview of the Octalysis Framework and the 8 Core Drives that can be used to build strategies around the various systems that make games engaging. As the book progresses, each chapter delves deep into a Core Drive, explaining its design and how it should be used. Finally, to apply all the concepts and techniques that you learn throughout, the book contains a brief showcase of using the Octalysis Framework to design a project experience from scratch.After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to enable the widespread adoption of good gamification and human-focused design in all types of industries.

Android Development with Kotlin. Enhance your skills for Android development using Kotlin

Igor Wojda, Marcin Moskala

Nowadays, improved application development does not just mean building better performing applications. It has become crucial to find improved ways of writing code. Kotlin is a language that helps developers build amazing Android applications easily and effectively. This book discusses Kotlin features in context of Android development. It demonstrates how common examples that are typical for Android development, can be simplified using Kotlin. It also shows all the benefits, improvements and new possibilities provided by this language.The book is divided in three modules that show the power of Kotlin and teach you how to use it properly. Each module present features in different levels of advancement. The first module covers Kotlin basics. This module will lay a firm foundation for the rest of the chapters so you are able to read and understand most of the Kotlin code. The next module dives deeper into the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions, classes, and function types. You will learn how Kotlin brings many improvements to the table by improving common Java concepts and decreasing code verbosity. The last module presents features that are not present in Java. You will learn how certain tasks can be achieved in simpler ways thanks to Kotlin.Through the book, you will learn how to use Kotlin for Android development. You will get to know and understand most important Kotlin features, and how they can be used. You will be ready to start your own adventure with Android development with Kotlin.

Android Game Programming by Example. Harness the power of the Android SDK by building three immersive and captivating games

John Horton

Android. Programowanie gier na tablety

Jeremy Kerfs

Zacznij przygodę z grami dla tabletów! Tablety z Androidem na pokładzie zdobywają coraz większą popularność. Jednym z powodów tego zjawiska jest niezwykle korzystny stosunek jakości i możliwości do ceny. Czy są jakieś inne? Oczywiście - ogromny wybór przydatnych aplikacji oraz atrakcyjnych gier. Duże ekrany i mocne, często wielordzeniowe procesory dają programistom pole do popisu. Jeżeli chcesz dołączyć do tego grona i przygotować genialną grę na platformę Android, potrzebujesz tylko kilku rzeczy: czasu, chęci oraz tej książki! Dzięki niej poznasz wszystkie niuanse tworzenia gier na tablety pracujące pod kontrolą systemu Android. Na samym początku dowiesz się, jak przygotować środowisko pracy oraz jakich narzędzi i bibliotek będziesz potrzebować. Po krótkim wstępie przejdziesz do sedna sprawy. Nauczysz się wykorzystywać ekrany dotykowe, moc wielordzeniowych procesorów oraz informacje z czujników położenia. Ponadto poznasz tajniki tworzenia sztucznej inteligencji oraz mechanizmów dla wielu graczy. O sukcesie gry decyduje atrakcyjna oprawa dźwiękowa i wizualna, dlatego autor kładzie duży nacisk właśnie na te aspekty tworzenia gier. Na sam koniec sprawdzisz, jak opublikować grę w Google Play Store (dawniej Android Market). Jest to idealna pozycja dla każdego pasjonata systemu Android. Sięgnij po tę książkę, a następnie: zaprojektuj własną grę dla Androida przygotuj grę dla jednego i wielu graczy wykorzystaj moc współczesnych procesorów opublikuj swoje dzieło w Google Play Store Twórz świetne gry na platformę Android!