by Robert White
Beginning Scribus is the book you wish you'd read when you downloaded Scribus for the first time. Scribus is an award-winning page-layout program used by newspaper designers, magazine designers and those who want to do proper page layout but not pay for an expensive solution. It is free and Open Source, providing a useful alternative for those who cannot afford or choose not to use Adobe InDesign or Qu...
Price: $42.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Build your own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games 
by Kelvin Sung, Jebediah Pavleas, Fernando Arnez, Jason Pace
Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games teaches you how to develop your own web-based game engine step-by-step, allowing you to create a wide variety of online videogames that can be played in common web browsers. Chapters include examples and projects that gradually increase in complexity while introducing a ground-up design framework, providing you with the foundational concepts needed to...
Price: $42.39 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business
by Phillip Whitt
Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business is a practical guide for the small business owner seeking viable alternative to expensive commercial software packages and subscriptions. This reference guide provides an overview of many popular and powerful free alternatives to proprietary software. Not only can small business owners benefit from this book, but educators and students can as well.In this ...
Price: $25.09 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Kishori Sharan
Learn JavaFX 8 shows you how to start developing rich-client desktop applications using your Java skills and provides comprehensive coverage of JavaFX 8's features. Each chapter starts with an introduction to the topic at hand, followed by a step-by-step discussion of the topic with small snippets of code. The book contains numerous figures aiding readers in visualizing the GUI that is built at every s...
Price: $57.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Make a 2D Arcade Game in a Weekend: With Unity
by Jodessiah Sumpter
Create and complete your first 2D arcade game in Unity. In Make a 2D Arcade Game in a Weekend with Unity, you will learn to create an arcade classic brick breaker game from beginning to end. You will plan the game flow, add the graphics and create the game logic using C#, then build the UX to complete your game. By the time you have finished, you will have enough knowledge to tweak the game to create more l...
Price: $33.28 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Wallace Jackson
Learn the foundational concepts of vector graphics and raster imaging, including what new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important. Digital Painting Techniques covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 ope...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Program Arcade Games, 4th Edition
by Dr. Paul Vincent Craven
Learn and use Python and PyGame to design and build cool arcade games. In Program Arcade Games: With Python and PyGame, 4th Edition, Dr. Paul Vincent Craven teaches you how to create fun and simple quiz games; integrate and start using graphics; animate graphics; integrate and use game controllers; add sound and bit-mapped graphics; and build grid-based games.After reading and using this book, you'll b...
Price: $40.55 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
JavaScript Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Shelley Powers
Problem solving with JavaScript is a lot trickier now that its use has expanded considerably in size, scope, and complexity. This cookbook has your back, with recipes for common tasks across the JavaScript world, whether you're working in the browser, the server, or a mobile environment. Each recipe includes reusable code and practical advice for tackling JavaScript objects, Node, Ajax, JSON, data pers...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Tony Parisi
As virtual reality approaches mainstream consumer use, a vibrant development ecosystem has emerged in the past few years. This hands-on guide takes you through VR development essentials for desktop, mobile, and browser-based applications. You'll explore the three go-to platforms - OculusVR, Gear VR, and Cardboard VR - as well as several VR development environments, programming tools, and techniques.If ...
Price: $7.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
by Al Sweigart
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python teaches you how to program in the Python language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the examples. Games include Guess the Number, Hangman, Tic Tac Toe, and Reversi. This book also has an introduction to making games with 2D graphics using the Pygame framework.Programming isn't hard. ...
Price: $7.48 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2015