Are you a Unity developer looking to switch to the Godot engine quickly? If so, this no-nonsense book is your guide to mastering the most popular open-source game engine. Godot is a completely free game engine for creating high-quality 2D and 3D games that can be launched on mul…
Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? This updated edition will help you kick-start your project as it guides you through the process of creating several example game apps using APIs available in Android. You will learn the basics needed to …
Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is a popular and award-winning game engine that powers some of the most popular games. A truly powerful tool for game development, there has never been a better time to use it for both commercial and independent projects. With more than 100 recipes, this bo…
Godot is a free open source game engine that provides a huge set of common tools. This book is an introduction to the Godot game engine and its newly released version: 3.0. Godot 3.0 brings a large number of new features and capabilities that make it a strong alternative to more…
How do you make a video game? Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript is a down to earth education in how to make video games from scratch, using the powerful HTML5 and JavaScript technologies. This book is a point-by-point round up of all the essential techniques that ev…
2D games are everywhere! Timeless and popular, 2D games represent a substantial segment of the games market. The Unity engine has revolutionized the gaming industry, by making it easier for game developers to create quality games on a budget. If you are looking for a guide to cr…
Sudoku Programming with C teaches you how to write computer programs to solve and generate Sudoku puzzles. This is a practical book that will provide you with everything you need to write your own books of Sudoku Classic and Samurai puzzles. But be warned: after reading it, you'…
From the foreword written by Richard Bartle, the coauthor of MUD: ""They [the 16 people interviewed in the book] tell things just the way they are, without any spin, and with insights freely flowing. That's either a feature of successful game developers or a testament to Morgan'…
For a great game, it needs a great user interface that shows the game settings and the right information to the player. Unity allows you to create complex and great looking user interfaces to give your games that professional look and feel. This book will help you realize the fu…
Augmented Reality offers the magical effect of blending the physical world with the virtual world. On the other hand, Unity is now the leading platform to develop augmented reality experiences since it provides a great pipeline to work with 3D assets. This book will educate you …
The Blueprints Visual Scripting system in UE is a complete gameplay scripting system based on the concept of using a node-based interface to create gameplay elements from within Unreal Editor. This book will help you create a fully functional game and the skills necessary to exp…
Over 70 recipes that cover advanced techniques for 3D programming such as lighting, shading, textures, particle systems, and image processing with OpenGL 4.6 Key Features Explore techniques for implementing shadows using shadow maps and shadow volumes Learn to use GLSL features …
Get a head start in your game development career with this all-genre guide for absolute beginners. Whether you're into action games, role-playing games, or interactive fiction, we've got you covered. Mostly Codeless Game Development empowers new developers with little or no prev…
Apply the Processing language to tasks involved in computer vision--tasks such as edge and corner detection, recognition of motion between frames in a video, recognition of objects, matching of feature points and shapes in different frames for tracking purposes, and more. You wi…
The key problem with VR development is understanding how to set up a project and running it on your desktop or mobile VR device. With this book, you will not only learn the specifics of virtual reality development in Unreal but also build immersive and fun VR projects that can b…
