Beginning Android Games, 2nd Edition 
by Mario Zechner, Robert Green
Beginning Android Games, Second Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android and earlier version compliant smartphones and ...
Price: $17.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
by Aditya Ravi Shankar
Build your next game on a bigger scale with Pro HTML5 Games. This book teaches you the essentials of advanced game programming in HTML5. You'll learn techniques that you can transfer to any area of HTML5 game development to make your own professional HTML5 games!Led by an expert game programmer, you'll build two complete games in HTML5: a strategy puzzle game based on the Box2d physics engine and ...
Price: $10.56 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Introducing HTML5 Game Development 
by Jesse Freeman
Making video games is hard work that requires technical skills, a lot of planning, and - most critically - a commitment to completing the project. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn step-by-step how to create a real 2D game from start to finish. In the process, you'll use Impact, the JavaScript game framework that works with HTML5's Canvas element.Not only will you pick up important tips ...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Michael Hugos
Games are playing a crucial role in many successful businesses - not just in PR and marketing, but as a model for designing business systems and workflows. In this book, Michael Hugos provides compelling case studies that demonstrate how game mechanics enable companies to respond quickly to challenges in today's real-time economy.It's not about giving workers a smiley face for producing more widge...
Price: $6.01 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
FREE EBOOK - Making Games with Python & Pygame
by Al Sweigart
Making Games with Python & Pygame covers the Pygame library with the source code for 11 games. Making Games was written as a sequel for the same age range as Invent with Python. Once you have an understanding of the basics of Python programming, you can now expand your abilities using the Pygame library to make games with graphics, animation, and sound.This book features seven different games that are c...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2012
Super Scratch Programming Adventure!
by The LEAD Project
Scratch is the wildly popular educational programming language used by millions of first-time learners in classrooms, libraries, and homes worldwide. By dragging together colorful blocks of code, kids quickly learn computer programming concepts and make cool games and animations.In Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, kids learn programming fundamentals as they make their very own playable video games. The...
Price: $5.38 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2012
FREE EBOOK - A Practical Introduction to Python Programming
by Brian Heinold
This book started out as about 30 pages of notes for students in my introductory programming class at Mount St. Mary's University. Most of these students have no prior programming experience, and that has affected my approach. I leave out a lot of technical details and sometimes I oversimplify things. Some of these details are filled in later in the book, though other details are never filled in. But t...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2012
Learning Android Game Programming
by Richard A. Rogers
The book starts with an up-to-the-minute overview of today's Android mobile games marketplace, reviews each leading genre, and teaches you the foundational concepts of game development. You'll design a simple game, then master every step of game development with AndEngine - the powerful, open source, free game-development engine. Every chapter teaches with sample code you can actually use, includi...
Price: $8.40 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2012
by Ciprian Adrian Rusen, Joli Ballew
Experience learning made easy - and quickly teach yourself how to use Windows 8. With Step by Step, you set the pace - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Set up a home network, browse the web, and use your email; Use multi-touch gestures on your touchscreen devices; Manage your files with Microsoft SkyDrive; Play music and movies, and share your photos and videos; Download...
Price: $14.18 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2012
by Nancy Muir
Learn the simplest ways to get things done with Windows 8!Run your apps, and manage your calendar and contacts; Explore the web, and send and receive email and messages; Organize your files on the PC and in the cloud with Microsoft SkyDriv; View, share, and store your own photos and videos; Play games, manage your music, and watch movies; Use maps to find directions and set your location....
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2012