Category: Game Development

Metal by Tutorials: Beginning game engine development with Metal 1

Metal by Tutorials: Beginning game engine development with Metal

eBook Details: Paperback: 659 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (February 7, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1942878540 ISBN-13: 978-1942878544 eBook Description: Metal by Tutorials: Beginning game engine development with Metal: Build your own low-level game engine in Metal!: Up to date for iOS 12, Xcode 10.2.1 & Swift 5 Metal is a unified application programming interface (API) for the graphics processing unit, or GPU. It’s unified because it applies to both 3D graphics and data-parallel computation paradigms. Metal is a low-level API because it provides programmers near-direct access to the GPU. Finally, Metal is a low-overhead API because it reduces the central processing unit (CPU) cost...

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition 0

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition

eBook Details: Hardcover: 654 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook; 3rd edition (August 12, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1138632090 ISBN-13: 978-1138632097 eBook Description: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, 3rd Edition Presents over 100 sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design. Written by one of the world’s top game designers, this book describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design, demonstrating how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in video games. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again. New to this The Art of Game...

Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming – Fourth Edition 0

Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming – Fourth Edition

eBook Details: Paperback: 246 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (November 30, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1789533910 ISBN-13: 978-1789533910 eBook Description: Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming, 4th Edition: Learn and Implement game AI in Unity 2018 to build smart game environments and enemies with A*, Finite State Machines, Behavior Trees and NavMesh Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for game characters in Unity 2018 has never been easier. Unity provides game and app developers with a variety of tools to implement AI, from the basic techniques to cutting-edge machine learning-powered agents. Leveraging these tools via Unity’s API or built-in features allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating your...

Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly 0

Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly

eBook Details: Paperback: 596 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (May 31, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1838644652 ISBN-13: 978-1838644659 eBook Description: Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly: Make your WebAssembly journey fun while making a game with it Within the next few years, WebAssembly will change the web as we know it. It promises a world where you can write an application for the web in any language, and compile it for native platforms as well as the web. This Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly book is designed to introduce web developers and game developers to the world of WebAssembly by walking through the development of a retro...

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2019 – Fourth Edition 1

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2019 – Fourth Edition

eBook Details: Paperback: 342 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (March 30, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1789532051 ISBN-13: 978-1789532050 eBook Description: Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2019, 4th Edition: Understand the fundamentals of C# programming and get started with coding from ground up in an engaging and practical manner Learning to program in today’s technical landscape can be a daunting task, especially when faced with the sheer number of languages you have to choose from. Luckily, Learning C# with Unity 2019 removes the guesswork and starts you off on the path to becoming a confident, and competent, programmer using game development with Unity. You’ll...