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Real-Time 3d Rendering With Directx And Hlsl - A Practical Guide To Graphics Programming

by Paul Varcholik

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Get Started Quickly with DirectX 3D Programming: No 3D Experience Needed</b> <br> <br>This step-by-step text demystifies modern graphics programming so you can quickly start writing professional code with DirectX and HLSL. Expert graphics instructor Paul Varcholik starts with the basics: a tour of the Direct3D graphics pipeline, a 3D math primer, and an introduction to the best tools and support libraries. <br> <br>Next, you’ll discover shader authoring with HLSL. You’ll implement basic lighting models, including ambient lighting, diffuse lighting, and specular highlighting. You’ll write shaders to support point lights, spotlights, environment mapping, fog, color blending, normal mapping, and more. <br>Then you’ll employ C++ and the Direct3D API to develop a robust, extensible rendering engine. You’ll learn about virtual cameras, loading and rendering 3D models, mouse and keyboard input, and you’ll create a flexible effect and material system to integrate your shaders. <br> <br>Finally, you’ll extend your graphics knowledge with more advanced material, including post-processing techniques for color filtering, Gaussian blurring, bloom, and distortion mapping. You’ll develop shaders for casting shadows, work with geometry and tessellation shaders, and implement a complete skeletal animation system for importing and rendering animated models. <br> <br>You don’t need any experience with 3D graphics or the associated math: Everything’s taught hands-on, and all graphics-specific code is fully explained. <br>Coverage includes <br> <br>• The Direct3D API and graphics pipeline <br>• A 3D math primer: vectors, matrices, coordinate systems, transformations, and the DirectX Math library <br>• Free and low-cost tools for authoring, debugging, and profiling shaders <br>• Extensive treatment of HLSL shader authoring <br>• Development of a C++ rendering engine <br>• Cameras, 3D models, materials, and lighting <br>• Post-processing effects <br>• Device input, component-based architecture, and software services <br>• Shadow mapping, depth maps, and projective texture mapping <br>• Skeletal animation <br>• Geometry and tessellation shaders <br>• Survey of rendering optimization, global illumination, compute shaders, deferred shading, and data-driven engine architecture <br> <br> <br>
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Game Programming Algorithms And Techniques - A Platform-Agnostic Approach

by Sanjay Madhav

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques is a detailed overview of many of the important algorithms and techniques used in video game programming today. Designed for programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming and basic data structures, this book focuses on practical concepts that see actual use in the game industry.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sanjay Madhav takes a unique platform- and framework-agnostic approach that will help develop virtually any game, in any genre, with any language or framework. He presents the fundamental techniques for working with 2D and 3D graphics, physics, artificial intelligence, cameras, and much more.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Each concept is illuminated with pseudocode that will be intuitive to any C#, Java, or C++ programmer, and has been refined and proven in Madhav’s game programming courses at the University of Southern California. Review questions after each chapter help solidify the most important concepts before moving on.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Madhav concludes with a detailed analysis of two complete games: a 2D iOS side-scroller (written in Objective-Cusing cocos2d) and a 3D PC/Mac/Linux tower defense game (written in C# using XNA/ MonoGame). These games illustrate many of the algorithms and techniques covered in the earlier chapters, and the full source code is available at gamealgorithms.net.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Coverage includes</p> <ul> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Game time management, speed control, and ensuring consistency on diverse hardware </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Essential 2D graphics techniques for modern mobile gaming </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Vectors, matrices, and linear algebra for 3D games </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> 3D graphics including coordinate spaces, lighting and shading, z-buffering, and quaternions </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Handling today’s wide array of digital and analog inputs </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sound systems including sound events, 3D audio, and digital signal processing </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Fundamentals of game physics, including collision detection and numeric integration </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Cameras: first-person, follow, spline, and more </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Artificial intelligence: pathfinding, state-based behaviors, and strategy/planning </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> User interfaces including menu systems and heads-up displays </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Scripting and text-based data files: when, how, and where to use them </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Basics of networked games including protocols and network topology </div></li> </ul>
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Web Game Developer'S Cookbook, The - Using Javascript And Html5 To Develop Games

by Evan Burchard

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Want to start building great web games with HTML5 and JavaScript? Moving from Flash or other game platforms? Already building HTML5 games and want to get better and faster at it? This guide brings together everything you need: expert guidance, sample projects, and working code!</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Evan Burchard walks you step-by-step through quickly building 10 popular types of games. Each chapter implements a game within a well-understood genre; introduces a different free, open source, and easy-to-use HTML5 game engine; and is accompanied with full JavaScript source code listings.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Each game recipe uses tested and well-proven patterns that address the development challenges unique to that genre, and shows how to use existing tools and engines to build complete substantial game projects in just hours. Need a quick JavaScript primer? Evan Burchard provides that, too!</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Coverage includes</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Mastering an essential HTML5/JavaScript game development toolset: browser, text editor, terminal, JavaScript console, game engine, and more</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Accelerating development with external libraries and proven patterns</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Managing browser differences between IE, Firefox, and Chrome</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Getting up to speed on web development with a QUIZ game built with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Creating INTERACTIVE FICTION "gamebooks" that leverage new CSS3 features and impress.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Building PARTY games around the lightweight atom.js engine</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Developing PUZZLE games with the easel.js graphics rendering engine</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Writing PLATFORMERS with melon.js and its integrated tilemap editor</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Coding intense 2-player FIGHTING games for web browsers with game.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Building a SPACE SHOOTER with the jQuery-based gameQuery game engine</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Implementing pseudo-3D techniques like ray casting for an FPS (First Person Shooter) style game</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Producing a 16 bit RPG (Role Playing Game) complete with interfaces for dialog, inventories, and turn-based battles with enchant.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Building an isometric RTS (Real Time Strategy) game that incorporates server components along with node.js, socket.io, and crafty.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Engaging players with content that encourages exploration</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Turn to <i>The Web Game Developer’s Cookbook </i>for proven, expert answers-and the code you need to implement them. It’s all you need to jumpstart any web game project!</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"></p>
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Game Design Vocabulary, A - Exploring The Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design

by Anna Anthropy e Naomi Clark

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 <b> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game Design</p></b> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>Why aren’t videogames getting better?</b> 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?<br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>The problem is language.</b> 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 learn from history. It’s too hard to improve.<br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>The breakthrough starts here.</b> A Game Design Vocabulary gives us the complete game design framework we desperately need—whether we create games, study them, review them, or build businesses on them.<br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>Craft amazing experiences.</b> Anna Anthropy and Naomi Clark share foundational principles, examples, and exercises that help you create great player experiences…complement intuition with design discipline…and craft games that succeed brilliantly on every level.</p> <ul> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Liberate yourself from stale clichés and genres </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Tell great stories: go way beyond cutscenes and text dumps </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Control the crucial relationships between game "verbs" and "objects" </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Wield the full power of development, conflict, climax, and resolution </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Shape scenes, pacing, and player choices </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Deepen context via art, animation, music, and sound </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Help players discover, understand, engage, and "talk back" to you </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Effectively use resistance and difficulty: the "push and pull" of games </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Design holistically: integrate visuals, audio, and controls </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Communicate a design vision everyone can understand </div></li> </ul>
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Introduction To Game Design, Prototyping, And Development - From Concept To Playable Game With Unity And C#

by Jeremy Gibson Bond

75,51€ + 10% CARD

 <p>Learn All the Design & Development Skills You Need to Make Great Games with Unity, the World''s Most Popular Professional Game Engine</p> <p>If you want to design and develop games, there is no substitute for strong, hands-on experience with modern techniques and tools. That is exactly what this book provides. Leading instructor and indie game developer Jeremy Gibson Bond covers all three disciplines that you need to succeed: game design theory, rapid iterative prototyping, and practical programming.</p> <p>Building on two previous best-sellers, this Third Edition contains hundreds of improvements across more than 400 new pages, all designed to make it even easier to understand and more useful in modern game development.</p> <p>The five game tutorials have been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover even more best practices for prototyping and development, and all examples now use Unity 2020.3 LTS (Long Term Support), a stable and feature-rich standard for years to come. The new content includes greatly enhanced tutorials, a chapter on Unity''s high-performance Data-Oriented Tech Stack (DOTS), new Coding Challenges to help you transition to making your own games from scratch, and tips on next steps after you have finished the book. The revamped website includes playable versions of all example games, plus an exciting new tool that provides immediate feedback on potential errors in your own code.</p> <p>Part I: Game Design and Paper Prototyping</p> <ul> <li>Use the Layered Tetrad to understand and design powerful interactive experiences.</li> <li>Explore the core game design practices of paper prototyping, testing, and iteration.</li> <li>Learn effective strategies for staying on track and on schedule.</li> <li>Get tips for finding a rewarding job in today''s industry.</li> </ul> <p>Part II: Programming C# in Unity</p> <p></p> <ul> <li>Learn C# from the basics through class inheritance, object-oriented programming, and data-oriented design.</li> </ul> <p></p> <p>Part III: Game Prototype Tutorials</p> <ul> <li>Implement games across five genres: arcade, casual physics, space shooter, solitaire card game, and top-down adventure game. Each game is designed to be easily extensible into your own projects.Take three games from prototype to "first playable" through new extended tutorial chapters that refi ne the games further than in previous editions of the book.</li> </ul> <p>NEW! Part IV: Next Steps</p> <ul> <li>Tackle the new, growing library of Coding Challenges, a proven method for transitioning from tutorials to creating your own projects from scratch.Get ideas and resources for new projects to tackle on your own.</li> </ul>
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Game Programming In C++ - Creating 3d Games

by Sanjay Madhav

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Program 3D Games in C++: The #1 Language at Top Game Studios Worldwide</b> <br> <br>C++ remains the key language at many leading game development studios. Since it’s used throughout their enormous code bases, studios use it to maintain and improve their games, and look for it constantly when hiring new developers. <b>Game Programming in C++ </b>is a practical, hands-on approach to programming 3D video games in C++. Modeled on Sanjay Madhav’s game programming courses at USC, it’s fun, easy, practical, hands-on, and complete. <br> <br>Step by step, you’ll learn to use C++ in all facets of real-world game programming, including 2D and 3D graphics, physics, AI, audio, user interfaces, and much more. You’ll hone real-world skills through practical exercises, and deepen your expertise through start-to-finish projects that grow in complexity as you build your skills. Throughout, Madhav pays special attention to demystifying the math that all professional game developers need to know. <br> <ul> <li>Set up your C++ development tools quickly, and get started</li> <li>Implement basic 2D graphics, game updates, vectors, and game physics</li> <li>Build more intelligent games with widely used AI algorithms</li> <li>Implement 3D graphics with OpenGL, shaders, matrices, and transformations</li> <li>Integrate and mix audio, including 3D positional audio</li> <li>Detect collisions of objects in a 3D environment</li> <li>Efficiently respond to player input</li> <li>Build user interfaces, including Head-Up Displays (HUDs)</li> <li>Improve graphics quality with anisotropic filtering and deferred shading</li> <li>Load and save levels and binary game data<br></li> </ul>Whether you’re a working developer or a student with prior knowledge of C++ and data structures, <b>Game Programming in C++</b> will prepare you to solve real problems with C++ in roles throughout the game development lifecycle. You’ll master the language that top studios are hiring for—and that’s a proven route to success. <br>
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Game Programming In C++ - Creating 3d Games

by Sanjay Madhav

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Program 3D Games in C++: The #1 Language at Top Game Studios Worldwide</b> <br> <br>C++ remains the key language at many leading game development studios. Since it’s used throughout their enormous code bases, studios use it to maintain and improve their games, and look for it constantly when hiring new developers. <b>Game Programming in C++ </b>is a practical, hands-on approach to programming 3D video games in C++. Modeled on Sanjay Madhav’s game programming courses at USC, it’s fun, easy, practical, hands-on, and complete. <br> <br>Step by step, you’ll learn to use C++ in all facets of real-world game programming, including 2D and 3D graphics, physics, AI, audio, user interfaces, and much more. You’ll hone real-world skills through practical exercises, and deepen your expertise through start-to-finish projects that grow in complexity as you build your skills. Throughout, Madhav pays special attention to demystifying the math that all professional game developers need to know. <br> <ul> <li>Set up your C++ development tools quickly, and get started</li> <li>Implement basic 2D graphics, game updates, vectors, and game physics</li> <li>Build more intelligent games with widely used AI algorithms</li> <li>Implement 3D graphics with OpenGL, shaders, matrices, and transformations</li> <li>Integrate and mix audio, including 3D positional audio</li> <li>Detect collisions of objects in a 3D environment</li> <li>Efficiently respond to player input</li> <li>Build user interfaces, including Head-Up Displays (HUDs)</li> <li>Improve graphics quality with anisotropic filtering and deferred shading</li> <li>Load and save levels and binary game data<br></li> </ul>Whether you’re a working developer or a student with prior knowledge of C++ and data structures, <b>Game Programming in C++</b> will prepare you to solve real problems with C++ in roles throughout the game development lifecycle. You’ll master the language that top studios are hiring for—and that’s a proven route to success.
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Multiplayer Game Programming - Architecting Networked Games

by Josh Glazer e Sanjay Madhav

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 Multiplayer Game Programming is a detailed investigation of networked multiplayer game engineering. A guided tour through the trials and challenges of building a robust multiplayer architecture, this book provides explanations and in-depth working examples of all the engine-level systems needed in a multiplayer game.
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Advanced Game Design - A Systems Approach

by Michael Sellers

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="margin:0px;">In <b>Advanced Game Design</b>, pioneering game designer and instructor Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each other, helping game designers understand what they are trying to accomplish and the best ways to achieve it. Drawing on 20+ years of experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching game design, Sellers explains:</p> <ul> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> What games are, and how systems thinking can help you think about them more clearly </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> What you can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to create gameplay and core loops </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to design the entire player experience, and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that experience </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to capture your game’s "big idea" and Unique Selling Proposition </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to establish high-level and background design and translate it into detailed design </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to build, playtest, and iterate early prototypes </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to build your game design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed </div></li> </ul>
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Advanced Game Design - A Systems Approach

by Michael Sellers

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="margin:0px;">In <b>Advanced Game Design</b>, pioneering game designer and instructor Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each other, helping game designers understand what they are trying to accomplish and the best ways to achieve it. Drawing on 20+ years of experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching game design, Sellers explains:</p> <ul> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> What games are, and how systems thinking can help you think about them more clearly </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> What you can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to create gameplay and core loops </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to design the entire player experience, and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that experience </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to capture your game’s "big idea" and Unique Selling Proposition </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to establish high-level and background design and translate it into detailed design </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to build, playtest, and iterate early prototypes </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> How to build your game design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed </div></li> </ul>
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Unreal Engine 4 For Design Visualization - Developing Stunning Interactive Visualizations, Animations, And Renderings

by Tom Shannon

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 <b>The Official, Full-Color Guide to Developing Interactive Visualizations, Animations, and Renderings with Unreal Engine 4</b> <br> <br>Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) was created to develop video games, but it has gone viral among architecture, science, engineering, and medical visualization communities. UE4’s stunning visual quality, cutting-edge toolset, unbeatable price (free!), and unprecedented ease of use redefines the state of the art and has turned the gaming, film, and visualization industries on their heads. <br> <br> <b>Unreal Engine 4 for Design Visualization </b>delivers the knowledge visualization professionals need to leverage UE4’s immense power. World-class UE4 expert Tom Shannon introduces Unreal Engine 4’s components and technical concepts, mentoring you through the entire process of building outstanding visualization content-all with realistic, carefully documented, step-by-step sample projects. <br> <br>Shannon answers the questions most often asked about UE4 visualization, addressing issues ranging from data import and processing to lighting, advanced materials, and rendering. He reveals important ways in which UE4 works differently from traditional rendering systems, even when it uses similar terminology. Throughout, he writes from the perspective of visualization professionals in architecture, engineering, or science-not gaming. <br> <ul> <li>Understand UE4’s components and development environment</li> <li>Master UE4’s pipeline from source data to delivered application</li> <li>Recognize and adapt to the differences between UE4 and traditional visualization and rendering techniques</li> <li>Achieve staggering realism with UE4’s Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Materials, Lighting, and Post-Processing pipelines</li> <li>Create production-ready Materials with the interactive real-time Material Editor</li> <li>Quickly set up projects, import massive datasets, and populate worlds with accurate visualization data</li> <li>Develop bright, warm lighting for architectural visualizations</li> <li>Create pre-rendered animations with Sequencer</li> <li>Use Blueprints Visual Scripting to create complex interactions without writing a single line of code</li> <li>Work with (and around) UE4’s limitations and leveraging its advantages to achieve your vision</li> </ul>All UE4 project files and 3ds Max source files, plus additional resources and links, are available at the book''s companion website. <br>
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Unreal Engine 4 For Design Visualization - Developing Stunning Interactive Visualizations, Animations, And Renderings

by Tom Shannon

42,39€ + 10% CARD

 <b>The Official, Full-Color Guide to Developing Interactive Visualizations, Animations, and Renderings with Unreal Engine 4</b> <br> <br>Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) was created to develop video games, but it has gone viral among architecture, science, engineering, and medical visualization communities. UE4’s stunning visual quality, cutting-edge toolset, unbeatable price (free!), and unprecedented ease of use redefines the state of the art and has turned the gaming, film, and visualization industries on their heads. <br> <br> <b>Unreal Engine 4 for Design Visualization </b>delivers the knowledge visualization professionals need to leverage UE4’s immense power. World-class UE4 expert Tom Shannon introduces Unreal Engine 4’s components and technical concepts, mentoring you through the entire process of building outstanding visualization content-all with realistic, carefully documented, step-by-step sample projects. <br> <br>Shannon answers the questions most often asked about UE4 visualization, addressing issues ranging from data import and processing to lighting, advanced materials, and rendering. He reveals important ways in which UE4 works differently from traditional rendering systems, even when it uses similar terminology. Throughout, he writes from the perspective of visualization professionals in architecture, engineering, or science-not gaming. <br> <ul> <li>Understand UE4’s components and development environment</li> <li>Master UE4’s pipeline from source data to delivered application</li> <li>Recognize and adapt to the differences between UE4 and traditional visualization and rendering techniques</li> <li>Achieve staggering realism with UE4’s Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Materials, Lighting, and Post-Processing pipelines</li> <li>Create production-ready Materials with the interactive real-time Material Editor</li> <li>Quickly set up projects, import massive datasets, and populate worlds with accurate visualization data</li> <li>Develop bright, warm lighting for architectural visualizations</li> <li>Create pre-rendered animations with Sequencer</li> <li>Use Blueprints Visual Scripting to create complex interactions without writing a single line of code</li> <li>Work with (and around) UE4’s limitations and leveraging its advantages to achieve your vision</li> </ul>All UE4 project files and 3ds Max source files, plus additional resources and links, are available at the book''s companion website. <br>
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Unreal Engine Vr Cookbook - Developing Virtual Reality With Ue4

by Mitch Mccaffrey

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 Developing Virtual Reality with UE.
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Unreal Engine Vr Cookbook - Developing Virtual Reality With Ue4

by Mitch Mccaffrey

25,94€ + 10% CARD

 Developing Virtual Reality with UE.
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Games, Design And Play - A Detailed Approach To Iterative Game Design

by Colleen Macklin e John Sharp

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="margin:0px;"><b>The play-focused, step-by-step guide to creating great game designs</b></p> <p style="margin:0px;">This book offers a <i>play-focused, process-oriented</i> approach for designing games people will love to play. Drawing on a combined 35 years of design and teaching experience, Colleen Macklin and John Sharp link the concepts and elements of play to the practical tasks of game design. Using full-color examples, they reveal how real game designers think and work, and illuminate the amazing expressive potential of great game design.</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Focusing on practical details, this book guides you from idea to prototype to playtest and fully realized design. You’ll walk through conceiving and creating a game’s inner workings, including its core actions, themes, and especially its play experience. Step by step, you’ll assemble every component of your "videogame," creating practically every kind of play: from cooperative to competitive, from chance-based to role-playing, and everything in between.</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Macklin and Sharp believe that games are for <i>everyone</i>, and game design is an exciting art form with a nearly unlimited array of styles, forms, and messages. Cutting across traditional platform and genre boundaries, they help you find inspiration wherever it exists.</p> <p style="margin:0px;"><b><i>Games, Design and Play</i></b> is for all game design students, and for beginning-to-intermediate-level game professionals, especially independent game designers. Bridging the gaps between imagination and production, it will help you craft outstanding designs for incredible play experiences! </p> <p style="margin:0px;"><b>Coverage includes:</b></p> <p style="margin:0px;"></p> <ul> <li>Understanding core elements of play design: actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, and players</li> <li>Mastering "tools" such as constraint, interaction, goals, challenges, strategy, chance, decision, storytelling, and context</li> <li>Comparing types of play and player experiences</li> <li>Considering the demands videogames make on players</li> <li>Establishing a game’s design values</li> <li>Creating design documents, schematics, and tracking spreadsheets</li> <li>Collaborating in teams on a shared design vision</li> <li>Brainstorming and conceptualizing designs</li> <li>Using prototypes to realize and playtest designs</li> <li>Improving designs by making the most of playtesting feedback</li> <li>Knowing when a design is ready for production</li> <li>Learning the rules so you can break them!</li> </ul> <p style="margin:0px;"></p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p>
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Multiplayer Game Programming - Architecting Networked Games

by Josh Glazer e Sanjay Madhav

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 Multiplayer Game Programming is a detailed investigation of networked multiplayer game engineering. A guided tour through the trials and challenges of building a robust multiplayer architecture, this book provides explanations and in-depth working examples of all the engine-level systems needed in a multiplayer game.
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Real-Time 3d Rendering With Directx And Hlsl - A Practical Guide To Graphics Programming

by Paul Varcholik

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Get Started Quickly with DirectX 3D Programming: No 3D Experience Needed</b> <br> <br>This step-by-step text demystifies modern graphics programming so you can quickly start writing professional code with DirectX and HLSL. Expert graphics instructor Paul Varcholik starts with the basics: a tour of the Direct3D graphics pipeline, a 3D math primer, and an introduction to the best tools and support libraries. <br> <br>Next, you’ll discover shader authoring with HLSL. You’ll implement basic lighting models, including ambient lighting, diffuse lighting, and specular highlighting. You’ll write shaders to support point lights, spotlights, environment mapping, fog, color blending, normal mapping, and more. <br>Then you’ll employ C++ and the Direct3D API to develop a robust, extensible rendering engine. You’ll learn about virtual cameras, loading and rendering 3D models, mouse and keyboard input, and you’ll create a flexible effect and material system to integrate your shaders. <br> <br>Finally, you’ll extend your graphics knowledge with more advanced material, including post-processing techniques for color filtering, Gaussian blurring, bloom, and distortion mapping. You’ll develop shaders for casting shadows, work with geometry and tessellation shaders, and implement a complete skeletal animation system for importing and rendering animated models. <br> <br>You don’t need any experience with 3D graphics or the associated math: Everything’s taught hands-on, and all graphics-specific code is fully explained. <br>Coverage includes <br> <br>• The Direct3D API and graphics pipeline <br>• A 3D math primer: vectors, matrices, coordinate systems, transformations, and the DirectX Math library <br>• Free and low-cost tools for authoring, debugging, and profiling shaders <br>• Extensive treatment of HLSL shader authoring <br>• Development of a C++ rendering engine <br>• Cameras, 3D models, materials, and lighting <br>• Post-processing effects <br>• Device input, component-based architecture, and software services <br>• Shadow mapping, depth maps, and projective texture mapping <br>• Skeletal animation <br>• Geometry and tessellation shaders <br>• Survey of rendering optimization, global illumination, compute shaders, deferred shading, and data-driven engine architecture <br> <br> <br>
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Game Design Vocabulary, A - Exploring The Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design

by Anna Anthropy e Naomi Clark

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 <b> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Master the Principles and Vocabulary of Game Design</p></b> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>Why aren’t videogames getting better?</b> 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?<br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>The problem is language.</b> 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 learn from history. It’s too hard to improve.<br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>The breakthrough starts here.</b> A Game Design Vocabulary gives us the complete game design framework we desperately need—whether we create games, study them, review them, or build businesses on them.<br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b>Craft amazing experiences.</b> Anna Anthropy and Naomi Clark share foundational principles, examples, and exercises that help you create great player experiences…complement intuition with design discipline…and craft games that succeed brilliantly on every level.</p> <ul> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Liberate yourself from stale clichés and genres </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Tell great stories: go way beyond cutscenes and text dumps </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Control the crucial relationships between game "verbs" and "objects" </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Wield the full power of development, conflict, climax, and resolution </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Shape scenes, pacing, and player choices </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Deepen context via art, animation, music, and sound </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Help players discover, understand, engage, and "talk back" to you </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Effectively use resistance and difficulty: the "push and pull" of games </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Design holistically: integrate visuals, audio, and controls </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Communicate a design vision everyone can understand </div></li> </ul>
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Game Programming Algorithms And Techniques - A Platform-Agnostic Approach

by Sanjay Madhav

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques is a detailed overview of many of the important algorithms and techniques used in video game programming today. Designed for programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming and basic data structures, this book focuses on practical concepts that see actual use in the game industry.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sanjay Madhav takes a unique platform- and framework-agnostic approach that will help develop virtually any game, in any genre, with any language or framework. He presents the fundamental techniques for working with 2D and 3D graphics, physics, artificial intelligence, cameras, and much more.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Each concept is illuminated with pseudocode that will be intuitive to any C#, Java, or C++ programmer, and has been refined and proven in Madhav’s game programming courses at the University of Southern California. Review questions after each chapter help solidify the most important concepts before moving on.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Madhav concludes with a detailed analysis of two complete games: a 2D iOS side-scroller (written in Objective-Cusing cocos2d) and a 3D PC/Mac/Linux tower defense game (written in C# using XNA/ MonoGame). These games illustrate many of the algorithms and techniques covered in the earlier chapters, and the full source code is available at gamealgorithms.net.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Coverage includes</p> <ul> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Game time management, speed control, and ensuring consistency on diverse hardware </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Essential 2D graphics techniques for modern mobile gaming </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Vectors, matrices, and linear algebra for 3D games </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> 3D graphics including coordinate spaces, lighting and shading, z-buffering, and quaternions </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Handling today’s wide array of digital and analog inputs </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sound systems including sound events, 3D audio, and digital signal processing </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Fundamentals of game physics, including collision detection and numeric integration </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Cameras: first-person, follow, spline, and more </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Artificial intelligence: pathfinding, state-based behaviors, and strategy/planning </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> User interfaces including menu systems and heads-up displays </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Scripting and text-based data files: when, how, and where to use them </div></li> <li> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> Basics of networked games including protocols and network topology </div></li> </ul>
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Web Game Developer'S Cookbook, The - Using Javascript And Html5 To Develop Games

by Evan Burchard

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Want to start building great web games with HTML5 and JavaScript? Moving from Flash or other game platforms? Already building HTML5 games and want to get better and faster at it? This guide brings together everything you need: expert guidance, sample projects, and working code!</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Evan Burchard walks you step-by-step through quickly building 10 popular types of games. Each chapter implements a game within a well-understood genre; introduces a different free, open source, and easy-to-use HTML5 game engine; and is accompanied with full JavaScript source code listings.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Each game recipe uses tested and well-proven patterns that address the development challenges unique to that genre, and shows how to use existing tools and engines to build complete substantial game projects in just hours. Need a quick JavaScript primer? Evan Burchard provides that, too!</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Coverage includes</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Mastering an essential HTML5/JavaScript game development toolset: browser, text editor, terminal, JavaScript console, game engine, and more</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Accelerating development with external libraries and proven patterns</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Managing browser differences between IE, Firefox, and Chrome</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Getting up to speed on web development with a QUIZ game built with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Creating INTERACTIVE FICTION "gamebooks" that leverage new CSS3 features and impress.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Building PARTY games around the lightweight atom.js engine</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Developing PUZZLE games with the easel.js graphics rendering engine</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Writing PLATFORMERS with melon.js and its integrated tilemap editor</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Coding intense 2-player FIGHTING games for web browsers with game.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Building a SPACE SHOOTER with the jQuery-based gameQuery game engine</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Implementing pseudo-3D techniques like ray casting for an FPS (First Person Shooter) style game</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Producing a 16 bit RPG (Role Playing Game) complete with interfaces for dialog, inventories, and turn-based battles with enchant.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Building an isometric RTS (Real Time Strategy) game that incorporates server components along with node.js, socket.io, and crafty.js</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">• Engaging players with content that encourages exploration</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Turn to <i>The Web Game Developer’s Cookbook </i>for proven, expert answers-and the code you need to implement them. It’s all you need to jumpstart any web game project!</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"></p>
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Games, Design And Play - A Detailed Approach To Iterative Game Design

by Colleen Macklin e John Sharp

59,47€ + 10% CARD

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Introduction To Game Systems Design

by Dax Gazaway

40,55€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
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Game Programming In C++ - Creating 3d Games

by Sanjay Madhav

50,01€ + 10% CARD

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Advanced Game Design - A Systems Approach

by Michael Sellers

60,14€ + 10% CARD

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