Unity is an incredibly powerful and popular game creation tool, and Unity 4 brings even more great features, including Mechanim animation. Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development will show you how to use Unity with Xcode to create fun, imaginative 3D games for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You'll learn how to optimize your game for both speed and quality, how to test and profile your game, and how to get the most out of your iOS device features, including the gyroscope and accelero...

Discover how to use Unity with Xcode to create fun, imaginative 3D games for iPhone and iPad. This book shows you how to optimize your game for both speed and quality, how to test and profile your game, and how to get the most out of your iOS device features, including the gyroscope and accelerometer.You'll also learn how to incorporate the latest Game Center improvements in iOS into your game, how to make sure your game gets into the App Store, and even how to promote your app and...

An operating manual for the hottest mobile operating system.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Android App Development gets novice developers up and running quickly on creating their very own mobile applications, with step-by-step instruction on everything they need to design, develop, test, and publish their fully-featured apps. The Android operating system is now the largest mobile platform in the U.S., and there are now more than 90,000 apps availa...

MIT App Inventor 2 is the fast and easy way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. This guide introduces the basic App Inventor features - you can likely create your first simple app in about an hour, and understand the basic components of App Inventor in a full day. App Inventor 2 is free to use and you can use it for commercial applications too.App Inventor 2: Tutorial is targeted at adult learners (high school and up) and shows how to design your app’s user i...

If you have an idea for a game but lack the skills to create it, this book is the perfect introduction. There’s lots of handholding through all the essentials, culminating in the building of a full 3D game.Key FeaturesKick start your game development, and build ready-to-play 3D games with ease.Understand key concepts in game design including scripting, physics, instantiation, particle effects, and more.Test & optimize your game to perfection ...

A step-by-step guide that will help you create, share, and deploy applications across your organization using MS PowerAppsKey FeaturesCreate apps with rich user experiences without paying for costly developersImprove productivity with business process automation using Microsoft Power AutomateBuild enterprise-grade apps with MS PowerApps’ built-in storage space, Common Data ServiceBook DescriptionMicrosoft PowerApps provides a...

Want to develop games for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7? This hands-on book will get you started with Microsoft's XNA 4.0 development framework right away -- even if you have no experience developing games. Although XNA includes several key concepts that can be difficult for beginning web developers to grasp, Learning XNA 4.0 shortens the learning curve by walking you through the framework in a clear and understandable step-by-step format.Each chapter offers a self-containe...

The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone Development is back again for Beginning iOS 7 Development, bringing this definitive guide up-to-date with Apple's latest and greatest iOS 7 SDK, as well as with the latest version of Xcode.There’s coverage of brand-new technologies, including a new chapter on Apple's Sprite Kit framework for game development, as well as significant updates to existing material. You'll have everything you need to create you...

Create monetized games for iOS and Android with minimum cost and code with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesBuild once and deploy your games to both iOS and AndroidCreate commercially successful games by applying several monetization techniques and toolsCreate three fun games and integrate them with social networks such as Twitter and FacebookBook DescriptionCorona SDK is the fastest and easiest way to create commercially succ...

A project based guides to learn animation, advanced shaders, environments, particle rendering, and networked games with Godot 3.0Key FeaturesLearn the art of developing cross-platform gamesLeverage Godot’s node and scene system to design robust, reusable game objectsIntegrate Blender easily and efficiently with Godot to create powerful 3D gamesBook DescriptionGodot Engine Game Development Projects is an introduction to the Go...

If you have ambitions to be a game developer this guide is a must. Covering all the fundamentals of the Unity game engine, it will help you understand the different elements of 3D game creation through practical projects.Key FeaturesKick start game development, and build ready-to-play 3D games with easeUnderstand key concepts in game design including scripting, physics, instantiation, particle effects, and moreTest & optimize your game to perfe...

Audio can affect the human brain in the most powerful and profound ways. Using Apple’s Core Audio, you can leverage all that power in your own Mac and iOS software, implementing features ranging from audio capture to real-time effects, MP3 playback to virtual instruments, web radio to VoIP support. The most sophisticated audio programming system ever created, Core Audio is not simple. In Learning Core Audio, top Mac programming author Chris Adamson and legendary C...