GDevelop had revolutionized the world of open source 2D game creation, by providing easy drag-and-drop kind of interface for producing complex game logic, all without writing codes and scripts. The goal of this book is to provide starters with rich technical information so the best decision and judgment can be exercised when creating 2D games through it.Throughout this book we will simply refer to GDevelop as GD. As of the time of this writing the latest version is V5, which supports exporting to the Facebook Instant Game platform. This is not a step-by-step tutorial. This is also not a guide book kind of overview material. We place our focus on the practical side of game creation - practical tips and techniques one will definitely need when starting out a game project. We also tell exactly what can and cannot be done with Construct, and the kind of performance drawback that can be foreseen when the platform is not fed with the right inputs. So, are you ready for the challenge?

This book aims to respond the growing interest about video game design, by designers, publicists, communicators and artists. It is proposed as an easy and intuitive guide, which facilitates processes for rapid development of video games, using free software tools. In order to foster and promote projects of entrepreneurship, within the sector of creative and entertainment industries.

GDevelop uses an event system to make it easy for you to make games. But this system still uses sound, widely-used logic. The principles of programming that you will learn by using GDevelop can apply to almost any scenario. GDevelop teaches you to think like a programmer in an easy, intuitive way.

CONSTRUCT had revolutionized the world of open source 2D game creation, by providing easy drag-and-drop kind of interface for producing complex game logic, all without writing codes and scripts. The goal of this book is to provide starters with rich technical information so the best decision and judgment can be exercised when creating 2D games through CONSTRUCT 3. This is not a step-by-step tutorial. This is also not a guide book kind of overview material. We place our focus on the practical side of game creation - the practical tips and techniques one will definitely need when starting out a game project. We also tell exactly what can and cannot be done with Construct 3 and the kind of performance drawback that can be foreseen when the platform is not fed with the right inputs.

Professor Overmars's Game Maker had revolutionized the world of Windows game creation, by providing easy drag-and-drop kind of interface for producing complex game logic, all without the need to write difficult codes. Game Maker Studio 2 (GM Studio 2) is the latest generation of GM. The goal of this book is to provide rich technical information so the best decision and judgment can be exercised when creating games through GM Studio. Written for absolute beginners, this is not a step-by-step tutorial. This is also not a guide book kind of overview material. We place our focus on the practical side of game creation - practical tips and techniques one will definitely need when starting out a game project. We also tell exactly what can and cannot be done with GM Studio, and the kind of performance drawback that can be foreseen when the platform is not fed with the right inputs. So, are you ready for the challenge?

Go on an adventure and build a roguelike from scratch using JavaScript. With the help of the battle-tested Phaser library, you’ll go through all the steps to build a small, fun, playable web roguelite game. The author will guide you on how to add further features to the game such as populating the game with enemies, adding treasures, and so on. You will acquire technical knowledge about procedural generation and tile-based mapping as well as learn game design skills such as what makes dungeons fun and how to evoke an emotion in your game. Roguelikes are very popular with indie developers because of their focus on gameplay over graphics. You’ll see why they appeal to game designers on a budget and discover that they serve as a good platform to experiment with novel ideas and designs. Along the way, you’ll cover the increasingly popular roguelite genre that provides a hyper casual form of the genre that is approachable and often mobile. After reading this book, you’ll be ready to create your own roguelikes, to dive deep into procedural generation, and also to bring some of the techniques shown here into other genres and game projects. What You Will Learn Make use of procedural generation for dungeons, mazes, monsters, and treasure Pick up skills to use Phaser to build games Implement turn-based mechanics Use tile-based graphics Who This Book Is For Game developers who want to build something fun and who have at least some prior JavaScript programming experience.

Learn C# from first principles the Rob Miles way. With jokes, puns, and a rigorous problem solving based approach.You can download all the code samples used in the book from here: http: //www.robmiles.com/s/Yellow-Book-Code-Samples-64.z

Benefit from the latest rendering tech developments, currently covered only in papers and talks from Siggraph, in a way any developer or technical artist using Unity can take advantage of. This book starts by introducing how shader programming works in general, the common principles of different platforms (OpenGL, Vulkan, and DirectX), and the shading languages Unity uses: Cg, GLSL, and ShaderLab. Physically Based Shader Development for Unity 2017 discusses artistic choices, presenting various techniques (such as translucency and subsurface scattering) and BRDFs (Oren-Nayar, Cook-Torrance, and Ashikhmin-Shirley), and what they can be used for. Finally you’ll cover the importance of optimizing your code by developing approximations, which achieve similar end results, but are computationally cheaper. By the end of your journey you’ll be able to develop the look of your game or Unity-rendered animated short so that it looks both unique and impressively realistic, thanks to your own custom lighting system. What You Will Learn Master shader programming Gain all you need to know about physically based shading Take almost full control of the shader subsystem Discover what you can achieve with that control Implement a custom physically based lighting system and examine the logic behind every choice Who This Book Is For Most game developers (both indie and AA) that use Unity and technical artists who are responsible for the final look of a game.

A a thorough, practice-based introduction to WebAssembly. Learn how to create high-performing, lightning-fast websites and applications. WebAssembly is the fast, compact, portable technology that optimizes the performance of resource-intensive web applications and programs. The Art of WebAssembly is designed to give web developers a solid understanding of how it works, when to use it (and when not to), and how to develop and deploy WebAssembly apps. First you’ll learn how to optimize and compile low-level code, debug and evaluate WebAssembly, and represent WebAssembly in the human-readable WebAssembly Text (WAT) format. Once you have the basics down, you’ll build a browser-based collision detection program, work with browser rendering technologies to create graphics and animations, and see how WebAssembly interacts with other web languages. You’ll also learn how to: Embed WebAssembly applications in web browsers and Node.js Use browser debuggers to evaluate your WebAssembly code Format variables, loops, functions, strings, data structures, and conditional logic in WAT Manipulate memory Build a program that generates graphical objects and detects when they collide Evaluate the output of a WebAssembly compiler The Art of WebAssembly will help you make sense of this powerful technology to boost the performance of your web applications.

Learn and use Python and PyGame to design and build cool arcade games. In Program Arcade Games: With Python and PyGame, Second Edition, Dr. Paul Vincent Craven teaches you how to create fun and simple quiz games; integrate and start using graphics; animate graphics; integrate and use game controllers; add sound and bit-mapped graphics; and build grid-based games. After reading and using this book, you'll be able to learn to program and build simple arcade game applications using one of today's most popular programming languages, Python. You can even deploy onto Steam and other Linux-based game systems as well as Android, one of today's most popular mobile and tablet platforms. You'll learn: How to create quiz games How to integrate and start using graphics How to animate graphics How to integrate and use game controllers How to add sound and bit-mapped graphics How to build grid-based games Audience“div>This book assumes no prior programming knowledge.