Wydawca: Packt Publishing
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.
Josh Elster
Babylon.js allows anyone to effortlessly create and render 3D content in a web browser using the power of WebGL and JavaScript. 3D games and apps accessible via the web open numerous opportunities for both entertainment and profit. Developers working with Babylon.js will be able to put their knowledge to work with this guide to building a fully featured 3D game.The book provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running, and productive in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and links to fully working self-contained code snippets, you’ll start by learning about Babylon.js and the finished Space-Truckers game. You’ll also explore the development workflows involved in making the game. Focusing on a wide range of features in Babylon.js, you’ll iteratively add pieces of functionality and assets to the application being built. Once you’ve built out the basic game mechanics, you’ll learn how to bring the Space-Truckers environment to life with cut scenes, particle systems, animations, shadows, PBR materials, and more.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to structure your code, organize your workflow processes, and continuously deploy to a static website/PWA a game limited only by bandwidth and your imagination.
Arvind Ravulavaru
Cognitive services are the new way of adding intelligence to applications and services. Now we can use Artificial Intelligence as a service that can be consumed by any application or other service, to add smartness and make the end result more practical and useful.Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API. Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.This book will help you build a Smart Exchange, a forum application that will let you upload videos, images and perform text to speech conversions and translation services. You will use the power of Google Cloud AI Services to make our simple forum application smart by validating the images, videos, and text provided by users to Google Cloud AI Services and make sure the content which is uploaded follows the forum standards, without a human curator involvement.You will learn how to work with the Vision API, Video Intelligence API, Speech Recognition API, Cloud Language Process, and Cloud Translation API services to make your application smarter.By the end of this book, you will have a strong understanding of working with Google Cloud AI Services, and be well on the way to building smarter applications.
Agnieszka Koziorowska, Wojciech Marusiak
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a leading cloud provider, helping companies and users worldwide to solve the most challenging business issues. This book will teach cloud engineers working with GCP how to implement, configure, and secure cloud environment, and help students gain confidence in utilizing various GCP services.The book begins by introducing you to Google Cloud and the ACE exam, including various resources that can help you pass. The next set of chapters will help you explore the various compute options in Google Cloud, such as Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Compute Engine. As you advance, you'll gain a clear understanding of the essence of the cloud, including networking and storage, as well as the data analytics products that Google Cloud provides. The chapters also cover key topics such as monitoring, logging, diagnostics, and price estimation along with the most crucial of subjects, security, with a particular focus on identity and access management. Finally, you'll be given the chance to test your newfound knowledge with the help of two mock exams.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the difference between various Google Cloud Platform services, along with specific use cases, and be able to implement these services with the GCP console and command-line utilities.
Sebastian Moreno
Google Cloud Platform is one of the three major cloud providers in the industry, exhibiting great leadership in application modernization and data management. This book provides a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to cloud development and shows you how to use the tools to create cloud-native applications by integrating the technologies used by Google.The book starts by taking you through the basic programming concepts and security fundamentals necessary for developing in Google Cloud. You'll then discover best practices for developing and deploying applications in the cloud using different components offered by Google Cloud Platform such as Cloud Functions, Google App Engine, Cloud Run, and other GCP technologies. As you advance, you'll learn the basics of cloud storage and choosing the best options for storing different kinds of data as well as understand what site reliability engineers do. In the last part, you'll work on a sample case study of Hip Local, a community application designed to facilitate communication between people nearby, created by the Google Cloud team.By the end of this guide, you'll have learned how to design, develop, and deploy an end-to-end application on the Google Cloud Platform.
Maurizio Ipsale, Mirko Gilioli
Google Cloud, the public cloud platform from Google, has a variety of networking options, which are instrumental in managing a networking architecture. This book will give you hands-on experience of implementing and securing networks in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).You will understand the basics of Google Cloud infrastructure and learn to design, plan, and prototype a network on GCP. After implementing a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), you will configure network services and implement hybrid connectivity. Later, the book focuses on security, which forms an important aspect of a network. You will also get to grips with network security and learn to manage and monitor network operations in GCP. Finally, you will learn to optimize network resources and delve into advanced networking. The book also helps you to reinforce your knowledge with the help of mock tests featuring exam-like questions.By the end of this book, you will have gained a complete understanding of networking in Google Cloud and learned everything you need to pass the certification exam.