Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd Edition 
by Zander Brumbaugh
Roblox is a huge entertainment platform like no other for both playing and creating games. With over 200 million monthly active users, Roblox has enabled new and experienced developers to create successful games, often called experiences, that can be played globally at no cost.Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd Edition, builds a solid foundation of the concepts you need to embark on the journey of building ...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
Developing Games on the Raspberry Pi 
by Seth Kenlon
Learn to set up a Pi-based game development environment, and then develop a game with Lua, a popular scripting language used in major game frameworks like Unreal Engine (BioShock Infinite), CryEngine (Far Cry series), Diesel (Payday: The Heist), Silent Storm Engine (Heroes of Might and Magic V) and many others. More importantly, learn how to dig deeper into programming languages to find and understand new f...
Price: $16.50 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
by Al Sweigart
You've mined for diamonds, crafted dozens of tools, and built all sorts of structures - but what if you could program robots to do all of that for you in a fraction of the time?In Coding with Minecraft, you'll create a virtual robot army with Lua, a programming language used by professional game developers. Step-by-step coding projects will show you how to write programs that automatically dig min...
Price: $14.84 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
FREE EBOOK - The Little Redis Book
by Karl Seguin
The book is many years old, but still relevant. Redis has evolved a lot, but most of that has been in the form of internal improvements, new advanced features (like lua scripting) and awesome new data types. The best way to learn Redis is still to start by understanding the fundamentals presented in this book....
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2017
by Mario Kasuba
The Lua language allows developers to create everything from simple to advanced applications and to create the games they want. Creating a good game is an art, and using the right tools and knowledge is essential in making game development easier.This book will guide you through each part of building your game engine and will help you understand how computer games are built. The book starts with simple game...
Price: $31.17 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Corona SDK Mobile Game Development, 2nd Edition
by Michelle M. Fernandez
Corona is a software development kit to build mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.This book will take you through the journey of developing games right from installing Corona SDK and creating Hello World as your first app. Going further, you will learn how to script in Lua and learn some techniques to apply this in Corona SDK with demonstration. Towards the end of the book you'll ...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Maxwell Dayvson Da Silva, Hugo Lopes Tavares
Redis is the most popular in-memory key-value data store. It's very lightweight and its data types give it an edge over the other competitors. If you need an in-memory database or a high-performance cache system that is simple to use and highly scalable, Redis is what you need.Redis Essentials is a fast-paced guide that teaches the fundamentals on data types, explains how to manage data through command...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Stefan Kottwitz
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting software and is very popular, especially among scientists. Its programming language gives you full control over every aspect of your documents, no matter how complex they are. LaTeX's huge amount of customizable templates and supporting packages cover most aspects of writing with embedded typographic expertise.With this book you will learn to leverage the capabilitie...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Cocos2d-x Game Development Essentials
by Frahaan Hussain, Arutosh Gurung, Gareth Jones
Cocos2d-x is the C++ port of the most popular open source 2D framework in the world. Cocos2d-x is an amazing open source game engine that allows developers to exploit their existing C++, Lua, and JavaScript knowledge for cross-platform deployment into iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Tizen, and HTML5, saving you time, effort, and cost.You will learn the essentials of Cocos2d-x through examples, by c...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
by Bruce Tate, Fred Daoud, Jack Moffitt, Ian Dees
Great programmers aren't born - they're made. The industry is moving from object-oriented languages to functional languages, and you need to commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language primers take you through basic installation and "Hello, World," we aim higher. Each language in Seven More...
Price: $25.40 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2014