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  • Homo Ludens

    A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s).In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Designing Games

    A Guide to Engineering Experiences

    by Tynan Sylvester ...
    Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences - a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Realm of Racket

    Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!

    by Matthias Felleisen, David Van Horn, Northeastern University Students, Dr. Conrad Barski ...
    Racket is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language.In Realm of Racket, you'll learn to program by creating increasingly complex games. Your journey begins with ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Actionable Gamification

    Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

    by Yu-kai Chou ...
    Learn all about implementing a good gamification design into your products, workplace, and lifestyleKey FeaturesExplore what makes a game fun and engagingGain insight into the Octalysis Framework and its applicationsDiscover the potential of the Core Drives of gamification through real-world scenariosBook DescriptionEffective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Workflow

    A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

    by Doron Meir ...
    A pro isn’t just a person who can do it well. It’s a person who can do it well every time, on demand and on deadline; which is why the key to being a professional creative is having a great creative process. Whether it’s writing a book, animating a shot, designing a game level or composing a soundtrack—ultimately, we’re all facing similar challenges. Since we share challenges, we can also share ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Art of Game Design

    A Book of Lenses, Third Edition

    by Jesse Schell ...
    The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in top-quality video games.Good game design happens when you view your game from as many ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • AI for Games, Third Edition

    by Ian Millington ...
    AI is an integral part of every video game. This book helps professionals keep up with the constantly evolving technological advances in the fast growing game industry and equips students with up-to-date information they need to jumpstart their careers. This revised and updated Third Edition includes new techniques, algorithms, data structures and representations needed to create powerful AI in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Designing Video Games

    A step-by-step guide to creating great games

    by Stuart Maine ...
    Teaches aspiring developers to create, design, and launch engaging games with practical guidance.Have you ever played a video game and wondered how it was made? Do you have an idea for a game but don’t know how to create it? Maybe you’re curious about the skills needed to land a job as a video games developer?This book breaks down the tools and techniques behind making games, providing practical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Minecraft: The Ultimate Reloaded 70 Top Tips & Tricks Your Friends Wish They Know After You Beat Them!

    by Jason Scotts ...
    Minecraft is a great game to play alone, but it gets even better if you do so with your friends. Whether you are on PvP (player versus player) mode where your goal is to be the last man or in this case, the last Steve standing, or you are just trying to create a "better" world compared to those made by your friends, it would be to your advantage if you take note of the tips mentioned below. From ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack

    by Mr Andrew Schartmann ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew Schartmann takes us through the various external factors (e.g., the video game crash of 1983, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Video Game Storytelling

    What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques

    by Evan Skolnick ...
    UNLOCK YOUR GAME'S NARRATIVE POTENTIAL!With increasingly sophisticated video games being consumed by an enthusiastic and expanding audience, the pressure is on game developers like never before to deliver exciting stories and engaging characters. With Video Game Storytelling, game writer and producer Evan Skolnick provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide to storytelling basics and how ... Read more

    $11.79 USD

  • Object-Oriented Python

    Master OOP by Building Games and GUIs

    by Irv Kalb ...
    Power up your Python with object-oriented programming and learn how to write powerful, efficient, and re-usable code.Object-Oriented Python is an intuitive and thorough guide to mastering object-oriented programming from the ground up. You’ll cover the basics of building classes and creating objects, and put theory into practice using the pygame package with clear examples that help visualize the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

    Better games, less hassle

    by John P. Doran, Matt Casanova ...
    Utilize proven solutions to solve common problems in game developmentKey FeaturesUntangle your game development workflow, make cleaner code, and create structurally solid gamesImplement key programming patterns that will enable you to make efficient AI and remove duplicationOptimize your game using memory management techniquesBook DescriptionYou’ve learned how to program, and you’ve probably ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $30.59 USD

  • Minecraft For Dummies

    by Jacob Cordeiro ...
    Craft yourself an amazing game of Minecraft!More than just a game, Minecraft consists of players using an avatar to create or destroy various types of blocks, form fantastic structures, create artwork, and do much more, all in a three-dimensional environment and across various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes. With this fun and friendly beginners guide, you will quickly grasp how to play ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Mastering Game Design with Unity 2021

    Immersive Workflows, Visual Scripting, Physics Engine, GameObjects, Player Progression, Publishing, and a Lot More (English Edition)

    by Scott Tykoski ...
    The Unity Engine has been steadily evolving over the past few years into one of the most powerful resources for the game development community. Its feature-rich toolkit and user-friendliness make it an ideal foundation for budding game developers. The book ‘Mastering Game Design with Unity 2021’ will walk you through creating a multimedia game from scratch, covering everything from the basics of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

    Create monetized 2d games deployable to almost any platform with this book and ebook.

    by Michael Hartlef ...
    Create monetized 2d games deployable to almost any platform.Key FeaturesCreate eight fun 2d games.Understand how to structure your code, your data structures and how to set up the control flow of a modern 2D gameLearn how to deploy your games to iOS, Android, XNA (Xbox, Windows Phone 7) and desktop platforms (Windows, OSX)Book DescriptionMonkey is a programming language and toolset that allows its ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • 3ds Max Basics for Modeling Video Game Assets: Volume 1

    Model a Complete Game Environment and Export to Unity or Other Game Engines

    by William Culbertson ...
    A textbook for learning 3d modeling fundamentals, this step-by-step lesson book develops the readers modeling skills through a series of modeling exercises creating modules for a medieval castle environment. As the text introduces new modeling skills it additionally calls on the reader to perform repetitive tasks, reinforcing skills learned in the process. The content is presented as if the reader ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Physics for Game Developers

    Science, math, and code for realistic effects

    by David M Bourg, Bryan Bywalec ...
    If you want to enrich your game’s experience with physics-based realism, the expanded edition of this classic book details physics principles applicable to game development. You’ll learn about collisions, explosions, sound, projectiles, and other effects used in games on Wii, PlayStation, Xbox, smartphones, and tablets. You’ll also get a handle on how to take advantage of various sensors such as ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • GPU Pro

    Advanced Rendering Techniques

    Edited by Wolfgang Engel ...
    This book covers essential tools and techniques for programming the graphics processing unit. Brought to you by Wolfgang Engel and the same team of editors who made the ShaderX series a success, this volume covers advanced rendering techniques, engine design, GPGPU techniques, related mathematical techniques, and game postmortems. A special emphasi ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • Minecraft: 70 Top Minecraft Mods That Your Friends Do Not Know (But Wish They Did!)

    by Jason Scotts ...
    All sorts of MineCraft mods have been made available by developers who believe that the Sandindie game could be made way more fun. Here are 70 of them, categorized into groups, depending on what their themes are. You may install them on your copy of the game and leave your friends bedazzled as to how you can have an edge on them. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Programming Concepts in C++

    by Robert Burns ...
    Programming Concepts in C++ is one in a series of books that introduce the basic concepts of computer programming, using a selected programming language. Other books in the series use languages like Java and Python, but all focus on concepts and not on any particular language. The presentation of the material is the same in each language, and much of the text is identical. Code samples are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Virtual Ascendance

    Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

    by Devin C. Griffiths ...
    From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence.Virtual Ascendance tells the story of a formerly fringe enterprise ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Elements of Game Design

    by Robert Zubek ...
    An introduction to the basic concepts of game design, focusing on techniques used in commercial game production.This textbook by a well-known game designer introduces the basics of game design, covering tools and techniques used by practitioners in commercial game production. It presents a model for analyzing game design in terms of three interconnected levels--mechanics and systems, gameplay, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Game Design Vocabulary, A

    Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design

    by Anna Anthropy, Naomi Clark ...
    Series series Game Design
    Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game DesignWhy aren’t videogames getting better? Why does it feel like we’re playing the same games, over and over again? Why aren’t games helping us transform our lives, like great music, books, and movies do?The problem is language. We still don’t know how to talk about game design. We can’t share our visions. We forget what works (and doesn’t). We don’t ... Read more

    $30.59 USD