Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Programming - Games

The evolution of story-telling is as old as the human race; from the beginning, when our ancestors first gathered around a campfire to share wondrous tales through oral traditions, to today, with information and stories being shared through waves and filling screens with words and images. Stories have always surrounded us, and united us in ways other disciplines can't. Storytelling for Interactive Digital Media and Video Games lays out the construct of the story, and how it can be manipulated by the storyteller through sound, video, lighting, graphics, and color. This book is the...

Have you ever seen a promising project get abandoned right when it seemed like it was getting ready to launch, or a project that always seemed like it was going to launch "next month," but took many months or even years before it actually launched? Scrum may be the solution to such woes. It is a project management methodology that, when applied faithfully, will increase the rate at which your project is completed, the enjoyment your team has while working on it, and its commercial success.

Converting to scrum can be a challenge for any team, but it is particularly painful for part...

This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods, search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods, and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation.

Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games focuses on the history and nature of romance in role-playing games, the mechanics generally used to deliver romance, and ways in which it is typically integrated. The book presents research on the difference between romance behaviors in real life vs. role-playing games. It breaks out romance research data by gender and also touches on alternate sexuality romance in games. The book discusses how to write better romance games based on gaming scholarship, psychology, and other considerations. The romance systems of various games...

The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the latest version of Unity and its workflow by guiding readers through various prototypes. These range from 2D to 3D game concepts for PC and mobile, will allow readers to get acquainted with several important concepts and allow them to become competent Unity developers able to learn at their own pace. The book starts by introducing Unity and proceeds in building a basic understanding of its main components by developing a first, simple 2D game before proceeding in developing a full casual game to development of a simple but immersive 3D...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize fast, cheap, and effective applications to imitate the human intelligence capability of sensing on a wider distributed scale. But acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additional WSN concerns include the external environment, routing, data aggregation, and ensuring quality of service (QoS) and security. Solutions have been developed for various types of application scenarios, but many problems still remain...

Blender is a vast and customizable 3D-Modelling application used by many artists across creative industries, from television to games. This newest book, in Alan Thorn s How to Cheat series, offers insightful and bite-sized power-tips to help you develop Blender mastery. Over five hundred figures illustrate interesting short-cuts and clever ways to improve your Blender workflow. A companion website at http: //www.alanthorn.net provides bonus content, including videos and resources to help sharpen your skills further. How to Cheat in Blender 2.7x is for Blender users of all...

Animation has a lot to do with acting. That is, character animation, not the standardized, mechanical process of animation. Acting and animation are highly creative processes. This book is divided into two parts: From film history we learn about the importance of actors and the variety of acting that goes into animation; then, we will turn to the actor's point of view to describe the various techniques involved. Through exhaustive research and interviews with people ranging from Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to Jaffrey Katzenberg and Ed Hooks, this book will be the primary source...

Within the field of game design, game balance can best be described as a black art. It is the process by which game designers make a game simultaneously fair for players while providing them just the right amount of difficulty to be both exciting and challenging without making the game entirely predictable. This involves a combination of mathematics, psychology, and occasionally other fields such as economics and game theory. Throughout the book, relevant topics on the use of spreadsheet programs will be included in each chapter. The book therefore doubles as a useful reference on...

Learn how to build a game using Platino Studio. Follow step-by-step basics to create an app, and then add different functionalities and game logic.

With Beginning Platino Game Engine you will be able to develop UWP apps using the Processing JS language. You also will be introduced to Temboo and extending the processing language to IoT.

What You'll Learn:

• Develop using the Platino game engine
• Build UWP apps using the Processing JS language
• Extend the processing language to IoT with...

Develop games using the JavaScript web scripting language. This compact short book will help you learn how to use modern JavaScript to make games for web browsers. They re effortless to use and they work everywhere. If you ve ever wanted to make a game, join author Christopher Pitt. You ll start with nothing and build fun games, in no time at all.

• Make a game using JavaScript
• Master the game loop
• Handle player input, collision detection, gravity, ladders, and stairs
• Work with camera locking, mobs, and health
• Manage...

• Program computer games from scratch with BlitzMax
• Produce high-quality arcade...