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  • Luigi's Mansion 3 Complete Game Guide

    A helpful walkthrough, Strategies, and Tips to Master Every Quest and Battle

    by Peter J. Riggs ...
    Step into the shadowy halls of the haunted Last Resort hotel with Luigi’s Mansion 3 Complete Game Guide! Whether you're a new ghostbuster or a seasoned player, this comprehensive guide is your ultimate companion for conquering every floor, solving every puzzle, and capturing every ghost in style.Navigate the game's eerie yet charming world with detailed walkthroughs for every quest, room, and ... Read more

    $5.36 USD

  • Game Design Essentials

    A Beginner's Guide to Creating Engaging Games

    by Virversity Online Courses ...
    Series series Virversity Online Courses: Gaming and Game Development
    Embark on a journey into the exciting world of game design with our comprehensive course, Game Design Essentials. This course offers you the tools and knowledge to understand the intricacies of game design, empowering you to create immersive and engaging experiences for players. By the end, you will have the skills to develop your own game design projects and a portfolio to showcase your talent ... Read more

    $2.99 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

  • World Design for 2D Action-Adventures

    by Christopher W. Totten, Adrian Sandoval ...
    Series series Level Design Practices
    Award-winning action-adventure designers Christopher Totten and Adrian Sandoval guide you on a quest to create levels for different styles of 2D action-adventure games, from top-down dungeon-crawler adventures to side-scrolling non-linear “Metroidvania” titles. Blending theory and practical analysis, this book shows how principles of game and level design are applied in some of your favorite 2D ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Minecraft For Dummies

    by Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay, Jacob Cordeiro ...
    Don't be a Minecraft tourist – get expert tips and advice in this full-color primerMinecraft For Dummies is the complete guide to playing within the Minecraft world. With easy-to-follow guidance from a team of Minecraft experts, you'll develop programming and engineering skills as you build amazing creations using in-game blocks and mechanical devices. Whether you prefer the PC, console, or ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Créez vos propres jeux 3D comme les pros

    avec le Blender Game Engine

    by Gregory Gossellin de Benicourt ...
    Series series Faire & Comprendre
    Longtemps réservée à un cercle de programmeurs passionnés, la 3D peine encore à s'inviter au sein des petits studios de jeux indépendants, et pour cause: le ticket d'entrée est relativement élevé. Blender (logiciel gratuit et Open Source), permet de modéliser, d'animer, de faire un rendu 3D et surtout d’être utilisé comme moteur de jeu. C'est l'outil parfait pour le débutant, mais également pour ... Read more

    $19.87 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

    $69.99 USD

  • From Pixels to Prose

    What Video Games Taught Me About Storytelling

    by Nadia Oxford ...
    In From Pixels to Prose: What Video Games Taught Me About Storytelling writer and games journalist Nadia Oxford traces how a lifetime spent in digital worlds shaped her craft and her understanding of narrative. From the pixelated drama of Donkey Kong to the emotional depths of Final Fantasy VI and Dragon Quest III, Oxford reveals how video games taught her about character, conflict, and the art of ... Read more

    $4.95 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

  • 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

    $88.99 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

    $199.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Role-Playing Game Studies

    Transmedia Foundations

    Edited by Sebastian Deterding, José Zagal ...
    This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

    by Steve Marschner, Peter Shirley ...
    Drawing on an impressive roster of experts in the field, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fifth Edition offers an ideal resource for computer course curricula as well as a user-friendly personal or professional reference.Focusing on geometric intuition, this book gives the necessary information for understanding how images get onto the screen by using the complementary approaches of ray tracing ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design

    Advanced Game Design

    by Ernest Adams, Joris Dormans ...
    Series series Voices That Matter
    This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what you’ve learned with hands-on lessons. A free downloadable simulation ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Gamechanger

    by Spencer FC ...
    How one man went from gaming and making videos at home to becoming a football club owner'The bizarre new world of football' GuardianI lifted the trophy triumphantly over my head, just as I’d seen so many FA Cup, World Cup and Champions League winners do on TV. It was quite simply the best moment of my life. Hashtag United had won.So, how on earth did this happen? How did a kid who at one point ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

  • Procedural Storytelling in Game Design

    Edited by Tanya X. Short, Tarn Adams ...
    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 demonstrate how traditional storytelling tools such as characterization, world-building, theme, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Neural Networks in Unity

    C# Programming for Windows 10

    by Abhishek Nandy, Manisha Biswas ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Learn the core concepts of neural networks and discover the different types of neural network, using Unity as your platform. In this book you will start by exploring back propagation and unsupervised neural networks with Unity and C#. You’ll then move onto activation functions, such as sigmoid functions, step functions, and so on. The author also explains all the variations of neural networks such ... Read more

    $36.29 USD

  • Game Design for Free-to-Play Live Service

    by Stanislav Stanković ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    "Game Design for Free to Play Live Service" is the ultimate guide to designing successful free-to-play mobile games. Based on a decade of experience at companies like Rovio, EA, and Supercell, the author provides practical advice on gameplay mechanics, monetization strategies, and player engagement. With case studies and expert insights, this book is essential reading for any game developer ... Read more

    $57.69 USD