Learn IT - Books tags games

iPad: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

O'Reilly, 2012

Apple’s wildly popular iPad and new iPad Mini come jam-packed with features, like access to your media library from the Web, Siri voice control, and seamless Facebook and Twitter integration. But to tap your iPad’s potential, you need a trustworthy owner’s manual. This bestselling book shows you how to import,...

Learning Android Canvas

Packt Publishing, 2013

If you want to create 2D graphics for Android from scratch, this book is the perfect guide. It covers all the angles of using Android Canvas with a step-by-step approach to give your apps the graphical edge.

Overview

Understand user interactions and respond to those actions

Discover how to...

Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

O'Reilly, 2016

Currently used at many colleges, universities, and high schools, this hands-on introduction to computer science is ideal for people with little or no programming experience. The goal of this concise book is not just to teach you Java, but to help you think like a computer scientist. You’ll learn how to program—a useful...

Unity 2018 Cookbook: Over 160 recipes to take your 2D and 3D game development to the next level, 3rd Edition

Packt Publishing, 2018

Develop quality game components and solve common gameplay problems with various game design patterns

Key Features

Become proficient at traditional 2D and 3D games and VR development

Build amazing interactive interfaces with Unity's UI system

Develop...

The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners

Apress, 2006

The Game Maker's Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games--complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples...

The Ethics of Computer Games

MIT Press, 2009

Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent portrayals of them in the mass media as training...

HTML5 and JavaScript Projects (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

Apress, 2011

HTML5 and JavaScript Projects shows you how to build on your basic knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript to create substantial HTML5 applications. Through the many interesting projects you can build in this book, you'll build your HTML5 skills for your future projects, and extend the core skills you may have learned with...

Android Studio Game Development: Concepts and Design

Apress, 2015

This one of a kind short book walks any Android developer through the process of creating mobile games using the new Android Studio IDE. Android Studio offers a myriad of tools for developers such as enhanced intellisense and device emulation. This book provides a quick and easy to read format; introduces the reader to these key tools and...

Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games

CRC Press, 2012

Despite the proliferation of video games in the twenty-first century, the theory of game design is largely underdeveloped, leaving designers on their own to understand what games really are. Helping you produce better games, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games presents a bold new path for...

Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data

Springer, 2013

Developing a successful game in today’s market is a challenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are published yearly, all competing for players’ time and attention. Game analytics has emerged in the past few years as one of the main resources for ensuring game quality, maximizing success, understanding player behavior and enhancing...

AI for Game Developers

O'Reilly, 2004

Written for the novice AI programmer, AI for Game Developers introduces you to techniques such as finite state machines, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and many others, in straightforward, easy-to-understand language, supported with code samples throughout the entire book (written in C/C++). From basic...

Netbooks: The Missing Manual

Pogue Press, 2009

Netbooks are the hot new thing in PCs -- small, inexpensive laptops designed for web browsing, email, and working with web-based programs. But chances are you don't know how to choose a netbook, let alone use one. Not to worry: with this Missing Manual, you'll learn which netbook is right for you and how to set it up and use it for everything from...

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