Windows 8 for Tablets Plain & Simple 
by Simon May
Learn the simplest ways to get things done with Windows 8 on tablets!Enjoy the Windows 8 touch experience on your tablet; Use the Start screen to find everything you need; Explore the web, and send and receive email and messages; Organize your files, photos, and videos in the cloud; Play games, manage your music, and watch movies; Use maps to find directions and set your location....
Price: $2.98 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2012
by Andy Beane
3D is everywhere - video games, movie and television special effects, mobile devices, etc. Many aspiring artists and animators have grown up with 3D and computers, and naturally gravitate to this field as their area of interest. Bringing a blend of studio and classroom experience to offer you thorough coverage of the 3D animation industry, this must-have book shows you what it takes to create compelling and...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2012
Professional HTML5 Mobile Game Development
by Pascal Rettig
If you're an experienced developer seeking to break into the sizzling mobile game market, this is the book for you. Covering all mobile and touchscreen devices, including iPhones, iPads, Android, and WP7.5, this book takes you through the steps of building both single- and multi-player mobile games. Topics include standard patterns for building games in HTML5, what methods to choose for building (CSS3,...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2012
Game and Graphics Programming for iOS and Android with OpenGL ES 2.0
by Vitaly Semko, Romain Marucchi-Foino, Roman Semko
The smart phone app market is progressively growing, and there is new market gap to fill that requires more graphically sophisticated applications and games. Game and Graphics Programming for iOS and Android with OpenGL ES 2.0 quickly gets you up to speed on understanding how powerful OpenGL ES 2.0 technology is in creating apps and games for amusement and effectiveness. Leading you through the development ...
Price: $7.56 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2012
by Juriy Bura, Paul Coates
Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich m...
Price: $31.75 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Beginning Android Web Apps Development
by Jon Westfall, Rocco Augusto, Grant Allen
With Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you'll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you've done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you'll find everything you seek i...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK
by Jarrett Webb, James Ashley
Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The following chapters will open up the secrets of three-dimensional vision, skeleton tracking, audio through the Kinect, and more. Examples illustrate the concepts in ...
Price: $32.94 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
by Steffen Itterheim, Andreas Low
Create compelling 2D games with Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development with iOS. This book shows you how to use the powerful new cocos2d, version 2 game engine to develop games for iPhone and iPad with tilemaps, virtual joypads, Game Center, and more.Best of all, this book will have you making games right from the very start. It guides you step-by-step through the creation of sample games. These fun examples are...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Practical AVR Microcontrollers
by Alan Trevennor
If you've heard of Arduino or even used it in your own projects, you probably know that the AVR microcontroller is the brain of the Arduino. In Practical AVR Microcontrollers, you'll learn how to use the AVR microcontroller to make your own nifty projects and gadgets.You'll start off with the basics in part one: setting up your development environment and learning how the "naked&...
Price: $33.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Learn Lua for iOS Game Development
by Jayant Varma
So you have a great game idea for iPhone or iPad, but Objective-C just seems a bit daunting. What are your alternatives? The App Store is very picky about languages, but there is hope: Lua is a versatile, lightweight, fast, and easy to learn language that you can use to build your iOS games and get them accepted into the App Store.Learn Lua for iOS Game Development walks you through the Lua basics, then sho...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012