The Game Makers Apprentice Game Development for Beginners

The Game Maker's Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games-complete with professional quality sound effe...

 Creating the Art of the Game

The key word here is art: the dynamic 3D art that defines the world of computer games, and the planning, modeling, texturing, lighting, effects creation, and interface design that go into it. You'll be learning from a master--veteran 3D artist and instruc...

 The Game Production Handbook

The Game Production Handbook is a practical reference to the ins-and-outs of the game production process. Using a fictitious game project, the book follows the project from concept to gold master. Using this approach, it teaches producers, leads, and stud...

 Game Programming Gems 7

The seventh volume of the Game Programming Gems series is the latest volume is this must-have reference series for game developer's. This series helped define the standards for game programming and continues to be the main resource for game programmers se...

  C++ for Game Programmers

C++ for Game Programmers, second edition is a completely updated and expanded edition of this best-selling reference. As with the first edition, the book is not intended to replace foundational C++ books and reference material: instead, it supplements the...

 The game Les secrets d'un virtuose de la drague

Les secrets d'un Virtuose de la Drague Neil Strauss est chargé d'enquêter sur la communauté des Virtuoses de la Drague, une société underground de séducteurs d'un nouveau type, qui élaborent des stratégies de drague comme des plans de bataille. Strauss n...

 Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame From Novice to Professional

Like music and movies, video games are rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives. Over the years, you've yearned for every new gaming console, mastered each blockbuster within weeks after its release, and have even won a local gaming competition or t...

 The game makers The story of Parker Brothers, from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit

The Monopoly game, Trivial Pursuit, Clue, Boggle, and Risk are more than games--they're part of Americana. All of these games were published by one company, Parker Brothers, which began as a dream inside the mind of a 16-year-old boy over 100 years ago. I...

 Poker Les secrets du cash game

Les stratégies du magicien pour gagner au Poker ! Antonio Esfandiari, étoile montante du World Poker Tour et un des meilleurs joueurs du circuit, vous révèle les stratégies des champions qui vous permettront de rafler la mise aux tables de cash ...

 Pro Java 6 3D Game Development Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL

Create strange lands filled with mysterious objects (cows frozen in blocks of ice, chirping penguins, golden globes with wavering eyes) and throw away your keyboard and mouse, to go exploring armed only with a gamepad, power glove, or just your bare hands...

  Artificial Intelligence for Games

Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers. The commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI, yet the engineering of AI is often begun late in the development process and is ...

 Professional XNA Game Programming For Xbox 360 and Windows

You haven't experienced the full potential of Xbox 360 or Windows until you've created your own homebrewed games for these innovative systems. With Microsoft's new XNA Framework, the only thing limiting you is your imagination. Now professional game devel...

 Sex Game Book Histoire culturelle de la sexualité

Des plus anciens traités sur l'érotisme aux développements du cybersexe, Sex Game Book parcourt toutes les facettes de la "culture sexe" : littérature, mythologie, cinéma, arts, sciences, objets, lieux, phénomènes de société... Du Kâma-sûtra aux r...

 Mathematics of Games and Gambling

This book introduces and develops some of the important and beautiful elementary mathematics needed for rational analysis of various gambling and game activities. Most of the standard casino games (roulette, craps, blackjack, keno), some social games (bac...

 Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide

Bring your gaming visions to life with Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express Create complete 3D games using Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express and this hands-on guide. Written by experienced game developers, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide details...

  AI Game Engine Programming

AI Game Engine Programming provides game developers with the tools and wisdom necessary to create modern game AI engines. It takes programmers from theory to actual game development, with usable code frameworks designed to go beyond merely detailing how a...

 AI for Games and Animation A Cognitive Modeling Approach

Simply put, AI for Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling Approach shows how video game characters can be taught to "think" for themselves. This groundbreaking title points the way for the future of intelligent gaming. While this book features formal m...

 Macromedia Flash 5 Actionscript for Fun and Games

Learn ActionScript the fun way! Macromedia Flash 5 for Fun and Games teaches you to use advanced ActionScript, the programming behind Flash, through game creation. The book features dozens of variations of favorites, such as classic arcade games, brain te...

  Awesome 3D Game Development No Programming Required

Awesome 3D Game Development: No Programming Required teaches aspiring game developers how to create their own computer games without programming skills and provides an in-depth understanding of how the game design process works. Using hands-on tutoria...

 Game Programming The Express Line to Learning

Get on the fast track to creating computer games Ever want to develop your own computer game? Learn the practical concepts of object-oriented programming for game design using Python(r) in this easy-to-follow, content-filled guide. Whether you're a stu...

 Game Design Complete

Most books on game design and development treat the topic as if designers worked in a vacuum. But in the real world, game design almost always needs to work within the constraints of time, money, hardware and software limitations, marketing issues, ales p...

 Beginning Lua Programming

A small yet extraordinarily powerful programming language, Lua achieved its popularity early on as a video game scripting language and has since evolved into a general purpose programming language that is compact enough to fit on a variety of host platf...

  Game level design

As a level designer in the game industry you can determine exactly what the player sees, hears, and feels in the game. The reward of seeing your game on a store shelf or hearing people talk about one of your levels is an incredibly fulfilling experien...

 Joe Grand's Best of Hardware, Wireless, and Game Console Hacking Includes DVD with 20 HAcks in High-Res Color

The Ultimate Geek's Hardware and Game Console Hacking Kit is perfect for any devoted hardware hacker, homebrew gamer, or geek compelled to void hardware warranties. Twenty projects from the books Hardware Hacking and Game Console Hacking are compiled on a...

 3D Game Engine Design A Practical Approach to Real-Time Computer Graphics

A major revision of the international bestseller on game programming! Graphics hardware has evolved enormously in the last decade. Hardware can now be directly controlled through techniques such as shader programming, which requires an entirely new tho...

 Secret Codes 2006, volume 2 All the Best Codes!

BradyGames' Secret Codes 2006, Volume 2 includes the following: The latest in the collection of the most sought after codes and cheats for the hottest games released for the next-gen systems. Some of the titles covered in this exhaustive pocket guid...

 3D Game Textures Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop

Learn how to create stunning, professional-quality game textures from an award-winning industry expert. This book is your one-stop-shop to learn everything you'll need to know about texturing game worlds, from the research that goes into creating a world ...

  The Game Animator's Guide to Maya

The Ultimate Resource for Professional Game Animators Game animation is a demanding art. Not only do you have to deliver realistic, beautiful animations, but you have to do so under strict real-time, video-game constraints. The Game Animator's Guide to...

 Game Story and Character Development

Game Story & Character Development - the newest installment in Thomson's acclaimed Game Development Essentials series-shows how to create compelling stories and characters specifically for games. The book examines the history of storytelling, traditio...

 The Game Production Handbook

Managing the production of games in the 21st century is a challenge, especially because there is no standardized process to ensure the successful completion of every game. But game production isn't a science, so you can't expect each game to present the s...

 Developing Serious Games

With the impressive growth the games industry has enjoyed for the past decade, game developers, educators, and marketing firms are excitedly envisioning serious games applications for computer game technologies. These applications- serious games- represen...

  Basic Game Design and Creation For fun & Learning

Basic Game Design and Creation for Fun & Learning teaches you how to make your own computer games-no programming skills required! Whether you're a game player who wants to try making your own games or a teacher who wants to provide a new way for stude...

 Dungeon Mastering for Dummies

See what it takes to host a game and plan adventures Sharpen your DM skills, practice storytelling, and get to know your players Whether you're just considering venturing into the world of the Dungeon Master or you want to hone a fledgling skill...

 Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games

Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games is an essential guide to solving the algorithmic and networking problems of modern commercial computer games, written from the perspective of a computer scientist. Combining algorithmic knowledge and game-relat...

 Networking and Online Games

The computer game industry is clearly growing in the direction of multiplayer, online games. Understanding the demands of games on IP (Internet Protocol) networks is essential for ISP (Internet Service Provider) engineers to develop appropriate IP service...

 The Art of World of Warcraft

The World of Warcraft is more than just a game, it's a work of art -- and you can enjoy these unique creations outside of the game with The Art of World of Warcraft. This beautiful hardbound book contains sketches, concepts, and final colored art for the ...

 Halo 2 Hacks Tips & Tools for Finishing the Fight

Even if you've finished Halo 2 in Legendary Mode, you're not done with this game. Not by a long shot. You know there's a lot more you can squeeze out of Halo 2, and with the clever hacks we have in store, you'll turn the game into a whole new experience. ...

  Level Design for Games Creating Compelling Game Experiences

At the heart of any great computer game are expertly designed levels: the locales and stages that define gameplay. And at the core of any strong game development team are the level designers: the people who create the spaces and environments that you move...

 Xbox 360 for Dummies

Microsoft's Xbox now accounts for 37 percent of the game console market, and the new Xbox 360 is due out for the 2005 holiday season, months before Sony's PlayStation 3. When gamers take the new Xbox home, however, they'll soon discover that it's more tha...

  Make Amazing Games in Minutes

Many game enthusiasts have aspirations to create their own games but don't know where to start. Make Amazing Games in Minutes introduces the game creation process to the aspiring game developer with no experience or programming ability. Taking the reader ...