FREE EBOOK - HackSpace Magazine: Issue 63
by HackSpace Team
Flying machines: humans have always dreamed about flight, but with our puny arms and lack of feathers it's something we've struggled with. No more! Join us as we explore the best, cleverest and most innovative home-made flying machines. Icarus would have been proud!- Behold: the world's first articulated print-in-place chocolate fish!- When 3D goes so wrong, it's actually kind of right- ...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2023
FREE EBOOK - HackSpace Magazine: Issue 65
by HackSpace Team
With enough inspiration, the world is your playground - that's why this issue we're bringing you 16 of the best DIY toys and games to keep boredom at bay.- Get started with surface mount soldering- Make Islamic-inspired geometric LED patterns- Building an aeroplane powered by the super duper supercapacitor- Drool over the finest 3D printed guitar we've ever seen...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2023
by Robert Ciesla
Grasp the fundamentals of digital audio work in the context of video games, including the basics of middleware such as Fmod and Wwise. We will review software such as Apple's Logic and Garageband, Paul Davis's Ardour, and many other popular digital audio workstations.We will start with an introduction to the basic terminology of digital audio work while also getting acquainted with current generat...
Price: $30.96 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Paul Teale
With its powerful tools and quick implementation capabilities, Flutter provides a new way to build scalable cross-platform apps. In this book, you'll learn how to build on your knowledge and use Flutter as the foundation for creating games.This game development book takes a hands-on approach to building a complete game from scratch. You'll see how to get started with the Flame library and build a ...
Price: $38.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd Edition
by Zander Brumbaugh
Roblox is a huge entertainment platform like no other for both playing and creating games. With over 200 million monthly active users, Roblox has enabled new and experienced developers to create successful games, often called experiences, that can be played globally at no cost.Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd Edition, builds a solid foundation of the concepts you need to embark on the journey of building ...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games, 2nd Edition
by Kelvin Sung, Jebediah Pavleas, Matthew Munson, Jason Pace
Develop a 2D game engine that will give you the experience and core understanding of foundational concepts for building complex and fun 2D games that can be played across the Internet via popular web browsers. This book is organized so that the chapters follow logical steps of building a game engine and integrates concepts accordingly.Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games isolates and pre...
Price: $44.78 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Ben Coepp
Get started quickly with Qt, the popular open source C++ framework for building C++-based applications and games. This book will have you building both fully functional desktop and mobile applications in no time, including some simple game applications. Introducing Qt 6 begins by guiding you in setting up your tools and environment, and then walks you through the first "baby steps" of Qt framework...
Price: $28.72 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Ben Tyers
Master the fundamental programming skills needed to create your own computer games in GameMaker. This book shows how to use GameMaker to build and publish cross-platform games.Each chapter covers a certain programming element, including layers, variables, and so on. You will also learn how to design levels in your games, draw sprites to populate your virtual worlds, and build GUIs for your menus and game in...
Price: $41.33 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
The Essential Guide to HTML5, 3rd Edition
by Jeanine Meyer
Gain a deep, practical knowledge of the basic tools used for webpages: hypertext markup language (HTML5), cascading style sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. This updated version includes new and improved games and exercises, and will serve total beginners as well as people with some programming language experience, but not familiar with the combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.You'll begin at an introdu...
Price: $40.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Game Development with Unity for .NET Developers
by Jiadong Chen
Understand what makes Unity the world's most widely used real-time 3D development platform and explore its powerful features for creating 3D and 2D games, as well as the Unity game engine and the Microsoft Game Dev, including the Microsoft Azure Cloud and Microsoft Azure PlayFab services, to create games.You will start by getting acquainted with the Unity editor and the basic concepts of Unity script p...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022