Gry
Książki zebrane w kategorii Gry to nie tylko przewodniki po wirtualnych światach czy grach, ale pozycje przydatne twórcom gier. Nawet doświadczony programista znajdzie przydatne dla niego pozycje np. poświęcone bibliotece OpenGL, czy DirectX.
W tej kategorii znajdziecie publikacje wprowadzające w świat tworzenia gier, od zagadnień teoretycznych, przez wykorzystanie grafiki3D, animacji, fizyki czy matematyki, nie zapominając o sztucznej inteligencji tak potrzebnej w grach, aż po techniki programistyczne związane z konkretnymi językami programowania takim jak C++, VBA, Java.
Charles Bernardoff
Project teams rarely forget to work on the technology, but they often forget to work with the people, and no matter how amazing your new technology is, it’s useless unless people use it efficiently.
Learning Rust. A comprehensive guide to writing Rust applications
Paul Johnson, Vesa Kaihlavirta
Rust is a highly concurrent and high performance language that focuses on safety and speed, memory management, and writing clean code. It also guarantees thread safety, and its aim is to improve the performance of existing applications. Its potential is shown by the fact that it has been backed by Mozilla to solve the critical problem of concurrency.Learning Rust will teach you to build concurrent, fast, and robust applications. From learning the basic syntax to writing complex functions, this book will is your one stop guide to get up to speed with the fundamentals of Rust programming. We will cover the essentials of the language, including variables, procedures, output, compiling, installing, and memory handling. You will learn how to write object-oriented code, work with generics, conduct pattern matching, and build macros. You will get to know how to communicate with users and other services, as well as getting to grips with generics, scoping, and more advanced conditions. You will also discover how to extend the compilation unit in Rust. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a complex application in Rust to move forward with.
Learning RxJava. Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications
Thomas Nield
RxJava is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using Observable sequences for the JVM, allowing developers to build robust applications in less time.Learning RxJava addresses all the fundamentals of reactive programming to help readers write reactive code, as well as teach them an effective approach to designing and implementing reactive libraries and applications. Starting with a brief introduction to reactive programming concepts, there is an overview of Observables and Observers, the core components of RxJava, and how to combine different streams of data and events together. You will also learn simpler ways to achieve concurrency and remain highly performant, with no need for synchronization. Later on, we will leverage backpressure and other strategies to cope with rapidly-producing sources to prevent bottlenecks in your application. After covering custom operators, testing, and debugging, the book dives into hands-on examples using RxJava on Android as well as Kotlin.
Kyle Langley
Over recent years, the market for mobile game development using Unity has grown multi-fold with an overwhelming 600 million gamers playing games developed using Unity engine. The newly launched Unity 5 offers a wide range of dedicated and powerful tools for iOS developers who intend to follow the basics and gradually elevate their skills to revolutionize the way they design and publish games for the App Store.From beginners, to those who are experienced making video games, this book goes through the steps of using Unity 5 to make a game from the ground up and setting the game up with iTunes Game Center features.The book begins with an introduction to setting up an iTunes Connect developer account, this will allow you to use Unity to its full potential with iOS. You will create a new app in iTunes Connect with the settings for Apple approval. You will learn, in detail, how to use Unity 5 and the programming language C# to make a fully interactive game that keeps track of player progress, Game Center Leaderboards, and Achievements, as well as displaying iAds and offering In-App purchases.Moving on, you’ll discover how to create development and release builds, enabling you to test the game on your device before finally submitting the game for Apple’s approval.By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of how iTunes and Unity can be used in combination to build and publish a fully interactive and reliable game to the App Store.
Muhammad A.Moniem
If you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.
LEGO Microgame. Podstawy programowania gier w Unity
Jacek Ross
Lubisz klocki LEGO? Kochasz gry komputerowe? Chcesz połączyć te dwie pasje? Naucz się tworzyć porywające gry w środowisku LEGO(R) Microgame! Klocków LEGO chyba nikomu nie trzeba przedstawiać. Znane i lubiane, zawsze są gwarancją świetnej zabawy. Dzięki Unity i stworzonemu we współpracy z marką LEGO(R) projektowi LEGO(R) Microgame każdy może opracować własną minigrę komputerową, której akcja dzieje się w świecie znanym z kolekcji popularnych klocków. Jeśli lubisz dobrą zabawę i nie boisz się wyzwań, jeszcze dziś zainstaluj Unity i moduł LEGO(R) Microgame. Korzystając z nich - i z tej książki! - szybko opanujesz podstawy tworzenia gier, poznasz narzędzia programistyczne i rozwiniesz swoją kreatywność. Nie trać czasu - świat gier stoi przed Tobą otworem! Instalacja niezbędnego oprogramowania Podstawy obsługi Unity i LEGO(R) Microgame Tworzenie scen i zarządzanie obiektami Zastosowanie klocków specjalnych Publikacja gry w serwisie Unity Play Nieważne, ile masz lat - ważne, czy chcesz się dobrze bawić!
LEGO Microgame. Podstawy programowania gier w Unity
Jacek Ross
Lubisz klocki LEGO? Kochasz gry komputerowe? Chcesz połączyć te dwie pasje? Naucz się tworzyć porywające gry w środowisku LEGO(R) Microgame! Klocków LEGO chyba nikomu nie trzeba przedstawiać. Znane i lubiane, zawsze są gwarancją świetnej zabawy. Dzięki Unity i stworzonemu we współpracy z marką LEGO(R) projektowi LEGO(R) Microgame każdy może opracować własną minigrę komputerową, której akcja dzieje się w świecie znanym z kolekcji popularnych klocków. Jeśli lubisz dobrą zabawę i nie boisz się wyzwań, jeszcze dziś zainstaluj Unity i moduł LEGO(R) Microgame. Korzystając z nich - i z tej książki! - szybko opanujesz podstawy tworzenia gier, poznasz narzędzia programistyczne i rozwiniesz swoją kreatywność. Nie trać czasu - świat gier stoi przed Tobą otworem! Instalacja niezbędnego oprogramowania Podstawy obsługi Unity i LEGO(R) Microgame Tworzenie scen i zarządzanie obiektami Zastosowanie klocków specjalnych Publikacja gry w serwisie Unity Play Nieważne, ile masz lat - ważne, czy chcesz się dobrze bawić!
If you want to make cross-platform games without the hassle and dangers of writing platform-specific code, or If you are a game programmer who may have some experience with Java and you want to learn everything you need to know about Libgdx to produce awesome work, this is the book for you. To take full advantage of the recipes in this book, you are expected to be familiar with java with good game programming knowledge.
James Cook
LibGDX is a cross-platform game development framework in Java that makes game programming easier and fun to do. It currently supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, and HTML5.With a vast feature set on offer, there isn't a game that can’t be made using libGDX. It allows you to write your code once and deploy it to multiple platforms without modification. With cross-platform delivery at its heart, a game can be made to target the major markets quickly and cost effectively.This book starts with a simple game through which the game update cycle is explained, including loading textures onto your screen, moving them around, and responding to input. From there you’ll move on to more advanced concepts such as creating a formal game structure with a menu screen, adding a game screen and loading screen, sprite sheets, and animations. You’ll explore how to introduce a font to optimize text, and with the help of a game that you’ll create, you’ll familiarise yourself with the 2D tile map API to create worlds that scroll as the characters move.In the final sample game of the book, you’ll implement a basic version of an Angry Birds clone, which will allow you to use the physic library box2D that libGDX provides access to. An overview of exporting games to different platforms is then provided.Finally, you will discover how to integrate third-party services into games and take a sneak peak at the Social Media API to get a basic understanding of how it fits into the libGDX ecosystem.