Learn Sprite Kit for iOS Game Development 
by Leland Long
With Learn Sprite Kit for iOS Game Development, you'll discover how easy it is to create 2D games using the new Sprite Kit framework from Apple. You'll find how simple it is to create a scene, add animated sprites, incorporate edges, play sound effects, and create animated particles for special effects. You'll also use touch events to control your sprites, implement the built-in physics engin...
Price: $40.03 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Beginning Android 3D Game Development
by Robert Chin
Beginning Android 3D Game Development is a unique, examples-driven book for today's Android and game app developers who want to learn how to build 3D game apps that run on the latest Android 5.0 (KitKat) platform using Java and OpenGL ES.Android game app development continues to be one of the hottest areas where indies and existing game app developers seem to be most active. Android is the second best ...
Price: $34.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Learn Unity3D Programming with UnityScript
by Janine Suvak
Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript is your step-by-step guide to learning to make your first Unity games using UnityScript. You will move from point-and-click components to fully customized features. You need no prior programming knowledge or any experience with other design tools such as PhotoShop or Illustrator - you can start from scratch making Unity games with what you'll learn in this book....
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
HTML5 Game Development Insights
by Colt McAnlis, Peter Lubbers, Duncan Tebbs, Brandon Jones, Andrzej Mazur, Sean Bennett, Florian d'Erfurth, Bruno Garcia, Shun Lin, Ivan Popelyshev, Jason Gauci, Jon Howard, Ian Ballantyne, Jesse Freeman, Takuo Kihira, Tyler Smith, Don Olmstead, John M
HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad API, real-time networking, getting 60fps full screen HTML5 games on mobile, using langu...
Price: $41.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Head First JavaScript Programming
by Eric T. Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser's document object model. You won't just be reading - you'll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And you'll write real code, lots of it, so you can start buil...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Programming 3D Applications with HTML5 and WebGL
by Tony Parisi
Create high-performance, visually stunning 3D applications for the Web, using HTML5 and related technologies such as CSS3 and WebGL - the emerging web graphics standard. With this book, you'll learn how to use the tools, frameworks, and libraries for building 3D models and animations, mind-blowing visual effects, and advanced user interaction in both desktop and mobile browsers.In two parts - Foundatio...
Price: $29.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison
Want to build games with iOS technologies? This cookbook provides detailed recipes for a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to Game Center integration, and OpenGL to performance. If you're familiar with iOS and Objective-C, this is the problem-solving guide you want.Rather than focus on specific game engines for iOS, such as Cocos2D or the Corona SDK, the reci...
Price: $6.70 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Bruce Sutherland
C++ is the language behind most of today's computer games. This 96-page C++ Game Development Primer takes you through the accelerated process of writing games for otherwise experienced C++ programmers. After reading this book, you'll have the fundamental know-how to become a successful and profitable game applications developer in today's increasingly competitive indie game marketplace.For th...
Price: $29.53 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Nick Morgan
JavaScript is the programming language of the Internet, the secret sauce that makes the Web awesome, your favorite sites interactive, and online games fun!JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction that teaches programming essentials through patient, step-by-step examples paired with funny illustrations. You'll begin with the basics, like working with strings, arrays, and loops, and then move o...
Price: $24.15 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2014
by Majed Marji
Scratch is a fun, free, beginner-friendly programming environment where you connect blocks of code to build programs. While most famously used to introduce kids to programming, Scratch can make computer science approachable for people of any age. Rather than type countless lines of code in a cryptic programming language, why not use colorful command blocks and cartoon sprites to create powerful scripts?In L...
Price: $5.34 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2014