Game category: 1129 books
Women in Game Development
Breaking the Glass Level-Cap
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Videogame development is usually seen as a male dominated field; even playing videogames is often wrongly viewed as a pastime for men only. But behind the curtain, women have always played myriad important roles in gaming. From programmers to artists, designers to producers, female videogame developers...
Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games
Pocket-Sized Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Despite its significant growth over the past five years, the mobile and social videogame industry is still maturing at a rapid rate. Due to various storage and visual and sound asset restrictions, mobile and social gaming must have innovative storytelling techniques. Narrative Tactics grants readers...
Digital Love
Romance and Sexuality in Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Scholars and professionals from all over the world, across experience levels and the gender and sexuality spectrum, share experiences and analysis of romance and sexuality in video games.
Whether discussing casual sex in the Star Wars universe; analyzing various Otome games; examining "the...
Advance 3-D Chess : The Longitudinal Star Gate 14
A Synergistic Modulation Synopsis of Vector Logistics.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
The development of the Longitudinal ( Horizontal ) Star Gate 14 Model , Model III , does facilitate the need to include pizzazz , intrigue and intricacy to the already boring mundane game of classical conventional chess. Traditional chess centuries ago was exclusively a favorite...
Game Art Complete
All-in-One: Learn Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush, and Photoshop Winning Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
A compilation of key chapters from the top Focal game art books available today - in the areas of Max, Maya, Photoshop, and ZBrush. The chapters provide the CG Artist with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that every 3D artist needs to create stunning game art.
Game artists will...
iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook
Simple Solutions for Game Development Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Ready to make amazing games for the iPhone and iPad? With Apple’s Swift programming language, it’s never been easier. This updated cookbook provides detailed recipes for managing a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math, SpriteKit, and OpenGL to augmented...
by Karan Sequeira
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Packed with comprehensive projects, this book takes a detailed look at a few of the industry's most popular games. This book will show you how to use Cocos2d-x to build games using its core components. You will learn how to incorporate game physics, and import custom models and animations. Next, you...
by Morgan Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In this groundbreaking collection of 15 interviews, successful founders of entertainment software companies reflect on their challenges and how they survived. You will learn of the strategies, the sacrifices, the long hours, the commitment, and the dedication to quality that led to their successes...
by Prashanth Hirematada
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
The book provides all the essentials needed to implement a fully featured multiplayer game in Flash. It begins by dissecting a basic hello-world example providing its code and an insight into each feature that is required. Following the book is easy because of the excellent illustrations and working...
Augmented Reality Games I
Understanding the Pokémon GO Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This is the first of two comprehensive volumes that provide a thorough and multi-faceted research into the emerging field of augmented reality games and consider a wide range of its major issues. These first ever research monographs on augmented reality games have been written by a team of 70 leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and this interplay between author, player and machine provides new and exciting ways to create and tell stories. In each essay, practitioners of this artform...
by Laobing Zhang, Genserik Reniers
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This book systematically studies how game theory can be used to improve security in chemical industrial areas, capturing the intelligent interactions between security managers and potential adversaries. The recent unfortunate terrorist attacks on critical infrastructures show that adversaries are...
Punk Playthings
Provocations for 21st Century Game Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Punk Playthings
Provocations for 21st Century Game Makers
"Punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that."
Malcolm Mclaren
Warning: If you want a silver...
Strategy and Politics
An Introduction to Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch...