by Shaun Mitchell
SDL 2.0 is the latest release of the popular Simple DirectMedia Layer API, which is designed to make life easier for C++ developers, allowing you simple low-level access to various multiplatform audio, graphics, and input devices.SDL Game Development guides you through creating your first 2D game using SDL and C++. It takes a clear and practical approach to SDL game development, ensuring that the focus rema...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Android Game Programming For Dummies 
by Derek James
Android phones are rapidly gaining market share, nudging the iPhone out of the top spot. Games are the most frequently downloaded apps in the Android market, and users are willing to pay for them. Game programming can be challenging, but this step-by-step guide explains the process in easily understood terms.If you have some programming knowledge, Android Game Programming For Dummies will have you creating ...
Price: $4.80 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
HTML5 Game Development For Dummies
by Andy Harris
HTML5 is the tool game developers and designers have been eagerly awaiting. It simplifies the job of creating graphically rich, interactive games for the Internet and mobile devices, and this easy-to-use guide simplifies the learning curve. Illustrated in full color, the book takes you step by step through the basics of HTML5 and how to use it to build interactive games with 2D graphics, video, database cap...
Price: $29.57 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
Professional Android Open Accessory Programming with Arduino
by Andreas Goransson, David Cuartielles Ruiz
Android Open Accessory is a new, simple, and secure protocol for connecting any microcontroller-empowered device to an Android smartphone or tablet. This Wrox guide shows Android programmers how to use AOA with Arduino, the microcontroller platform, to control such systems as lighting, air conditioning, and entertainment systems from Android devices. Furthermore, it teaches the circuit-building skills neede...
Price: $8.43 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2013
HTML5 Game Programming with enchant.js
by Brandon McInnis, Ryo Shimizu, Hidekazu Furukawa, Ryohei Fushimi, Ryo Tanaka, Kevin Kratzer
HTML5 Game Programming with enchant.js gives first-time programmers of all ages the tools to turn their video game ideas into reality. A step-by-step guide to the free, open-source HTML5 and JavaScript engine enchant.js, it is ideally suited for game fans who have always wanted to make their own game but didn't know how. It begins with the foundations of game programming and goes on to introduce advanc...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4, 2nd Edition
by Sue Blackman
Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4 is perfect for those who would like to come to grips with programming Unity. You may be an artist who has learned 3D tools such as 3ds Max, Maya, or Cinema 4D, or you may come from 2D tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator. On the other hand, you may just want to familiarize yourself with programming games and the latest ideas in game production.This book introduc...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Prateek Mehta
Want to create sophisticated games and graphics-intensive apps? Learn OpenGL ES gets you started immediately with OpenGL ES. After mastering the basics of OpenGL ES itself, you will quickly find yourself writing and building game apps, without having to learn about object oriented programming techniques.This book demonstrates the use of a powerful open-source modeling tool, Blender. You will be guided, ste...
Price: $29.07 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Learn Unity for 2D Game Development
by Alan Thorn
2D games are everywhere, from mobile devices and websites to game consoles and PCs. Timeless and popular, 2D games represent a substantial segment of the games market.In Learn Unity for 2D Game Development, targeted at both game development newcomers and established developers, experienced game developer Alan Thorn shows you how to use the powerful Unity engine to create fun and imaginative 2D games....
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Learn 2D Game Development with C#
by Kelvin Sung
2D games are hugely popular across a wide range of platforms and the ideal place to start if you're new to game development. With Learn 2D Game Development with C#, you'll learn your way around the universal building blocks of game development, and how to put them together to create a real working game.C# is increasingly becoming the language of choice for new game developers. Productive and easie...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa
Developing a successful game in today's market is a challenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are published yearly, all competing for players' time and attention. Game analytics has emerged in the past few years as one of the main resources for ensuring game quality, maximizing success, understanding player behavior and enhancing the quality of the player experience. It has led to a paradigm shift...
Price: $84.99 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013