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Build rich, high production value mobile games and distribute them across different platforms with BuildboxAbout This BookCreate captivating 2D & 2.5D (isometric) video games for all platformsLeverage Buildbox to monetize and prepare your games for distributionThis step-by-step tutorial will get...

What’s the big idea? IND13 has been created to fill a gap discovered in the magazine and publishing market – a title aimed at people interested in independent games development. Our team of people working in the independent gaming indstry came together and created IND13 to fill that gap....

Music Video Games takes a look (and listen) at the popular genre of music games – video games in which music is at the forefront of player interaction and gameplay. With chapters on a wide variety of music games, ranging from well-known console games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band to new, emerging...

Were you a kid when Atari came along? were you a teen keeping up with the Commodore? Do you remember a time when every teacher got an Apple? Do you want to stop spending a fortune on video games and start saving money? If you answered yes to any of these questions Arcade in a Box is for you. This...

Games live and die commercially on the player experience. Games User Research is collectively the way we optimise the quality of the user experience (UX) in games, working with all aspects of a game from the mechanics and interface, visuals and art, interaction and progression, making sure every element...

Hello, and welcome to an exciting new video game ezine,  EZ Gamer. Throughout this textbased ezine we aim to provide you with an insightful view on all things video games. We are dedicated gamers with many years of video games experience  We believe a social life is not necessary if there's an awesome...

Hello, and welcome to an exciting new video game ezine, EZ Gamer. Throughout this textbased ezine we aim to provide you with an insightful view on all things video games. We are dedicated gamers with many years of video games experience We believe a social life is not necessary if there's an awesome...

Building JavaScript Games teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills. JavaScript is in the top ten most-used programming languages world wide, and is the basis for applications that can run in any modern browser, on...

Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation,...

: As a 20+-year sports veteran I am revealing the system I use to bet a small amount of money, and look for the big score. As a better I know what it feels like to have more than one play starting at the same time, so I needed a method for dealing with this situation. I developed The Complete Round...

"Amusing, raucous and inventive†? The Guardian From award winning game designers Hide&Seek come tons of brand new games for real-world play. Tiny Games takes traditional parlour games and adds a touch of modern game design know-how to allow any number of players to have fun whatever they're...

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them. We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions...

An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games. This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they...

'Remember when you played cards or knucklebones or noughts and crosses? Or what about charades, murder in the dark, I spy or hide and seek? Or made chatterboxes, those devices made from a square of paper that you flipped open between thumbs and forefingers with wishes and dreams under the flaps.This...