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Brian Christian, Steven Isaacs
This book is excellent resource for developers with any level of experience of GameMaker. At the start, we’ll provide an overview of the basic use of GameMaker: Studio, and show you how to set up a basic game where you handle input and collisions in a top-down perspective game.We continue on to showcase its more advanced features via six different example projects. The first example game demonstrates platforming with file I/O, followed by animation, views, and multiplayer networking. The next game illustrates AI and particle systems, while the final one will get you started with the built-in Box2D physics engine. By the end of this book, you have mastered lots of powerful techniques that can be utilized in various 2D games.
Gamesalad Essentials. Create awesome cross-platform games in no time, and with no coding
Miguel DeQuadros
If you want to create your own game, but don't know where to start, this is the book for you. Whether you've used GameSalad before, or have prior game development experience or not you are sure to learn! Imaging software experience, such as Photoshop, is good to have, but art and assets are provided in the book's resources.
Akila Narayanan
Akila Narayanan has over a decade of experience in the IT industry and is currently working as Project Manager with one of the global IT leaders. She is a social business enthusiast and evangelist with vast experience managing complex and strategic projects for insurance customers. She specializes in enabling social business and gamification for insurance customers, has published thought papers and created customer mindshare. She holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Madras and is PMP, AINS certified. She has completed the online gamification course offered by coursera.org.Over the years, business environments have changed considerably, and the needs of the employees have changed along with it. A big challenge amongst businesses to retain and nurture the best talent. With gamification you have the opportunity, when done correctly, to engage and establish mutual trust and better retention. This book will show you what, where, when and how gamification should be applied within a business context. With focus on practical illustrations and creative ideas for implementation, by the end of this book you will feel confident on how to successfully incorporate gamification into your business.Over the years, business environments have changed considerably, and the needs of the employees have changed along with it. A big challenge amongst businesses to retain and nurture the best talent. With gamification you have the opportunity to engage and establish mutual trust and better retention. This book will show you what, where, when and how gamification should be applied within for your business needs. With focus on practical illustrations and creative ideas for implementation, by the end of this book you will feel confident on how to successfully implement gamification to ensure a collaborative culture and sustaining engagement at your workplace.
Mike Hyzy, Bret Wardle
Are you trying to build a product that your audience loves to use? Game mechanics and psychology have been used for decades to increase engagement, convert users to buyers, and increase audience retention. Learning when and where to implement these tools can take your product from the middle of the pack to a must-have!This book begins by helping you get a clear understanding of gamification, its key concepts, and how product managers can leverage it to drive user engagement in non-game scenarios. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn different gamification frameworks, mechanics, and elements with structured ways to implement them while designing a successful gamification strategy tailored to a business case. You'll get a chance to implement and test the designed strategy prototype with the users for feedback. You’ll also discover how to sell your strategy to stakeholders to get full buy-in from the top down, along with how to gamify your product development process to drive innovation, engagement, and motivation.By the end of this book, you'll be primed to harness the power of gamification, and will have benefited from proven case studies, best practices, and tips, ensuring you are well-equipped to apply gamification principles to your work as a product development professional.
Natalie Denmeade
This book describes how teachers can use Gamification design within the Moodle Learning Management System. Game elements can be included in course design by using, badges, rubrics, custom grading scales, forums, and conditional activities. Moodle courses do not have to be solo-learning experiences that replicate Distance Education models. The Gamification design process starts by profiling players and creating levels of achievement towards meeting learning outcomes. Each task is defined, valued, and sequenced. Motivation loops are devised to keep the momentum going. In a gaming studio, this approach would require a team of specialists with a large budget and time frames. Preparing for a class rarely has these optimal conditions. The approach used in this book is to introduce game elements into the course design gradually. First, apply gamification to just one lesson and then build up to gamifying a series of lessons over a term. Each example will indicate the difficulty level and time investment. Try it out to see what is most effective with your learners and choose wisely in your use of technology. By the end of this book, you will be able to create Moodle courses that incorporate choice, communication,challenge, and creativity.
Lauren S. Ferro
Are you looking at implementing gamification techniques for your business and wondering where to get a complete rundown of all the tricks and techniques? Well, you have come to the right place!This book will start right from the basics such as gameplay elements and their functionalities before gradually moving onto creating your first gamification project from scratch. You’ll be given the tools and shown how to perform various techniques for creating gamified applications in different contexts. Finally, you will implement various game elements into Unity, publish your own task management application, and get to know the best practices and approaches when designing gamified experiences.
Jeannie Wycherley
Gdy tracisz najlepszego przyjaciela... świat nagle się zmienia. Utrata ukochanego zwierzęcia to jeden z najboleśniejszych momentów w życiu opiekuna. W tej poruszającej i szczerej książce autorka dzieli się własną historią po stracie Herbiego oraz doświadczeniami innych osób, które musiały pożegnać swoich przyjaciół. To nie jest poradnik napisany przez zdystansowanego teoretyka - lecz przez kogoś, kto naprawdę przeszedł przez żałobę i rozumie, jak głęboka potrafi być więź między człowiekiem a psem. Znajdziesz tu ciepłe słowa, prawdziwe historie i delikatne wskazówki, które pomogą ci przejść przez trudny czas po stracie. Książka przypomina, że każdy przeżywa żałobę inaczej, a z czasem można nauczyć się żyć z bólem, pielęgnując piękne wspomnienia. Ta książka uświadomi Ci, że masz prawo do bólu, smutku i przeżywania żałoby. To nigdy nie jest "tylko zwierzę".
Patrick A. Davis
W gabinecie szefa sztabu Sił Powietrznych USA w brutalny sposób zostaje zamordowany czterogwiazdowy generał. Do wyjaśnienia tej sprawy oddelegowany zostaje podpułkownik Jensen z wydziału dochodzeniowego Sił Powietrznych. Z gabinetu generała morderca zabrał wszystkie dyskietki komputerowe oraz twardy dysk. Wszystko wskazywało też na to, że przed śmiercią ofiara poddana została torturom, stosowanym przez... północnych Wietnamczyków podczas konfliktu w Indochinach...