Game Development

Immerse yourself into the world of indie game development with our new eBook, "Indie Game Development"! Explore a complete universe brimming with potential, from the inception of ideas to the final satisfactory moment of launching your own game. In the insightful first chapter, learn about this exciting realm, where storytelling and design unite, flourishing into an immersive player experience. Discover the importance of indie games and the freedom they provide to their creators. Navigate through the endless possibilities and challenges that await in this artistic and innovative digital ...

Indie Game Publishing is the essential guide for indie game developers seeking to put their game into the hands of players. Whether you decide to self-publish or find a publisher to partner with, this useful guide will take you through each step of the process and thoroughly prepare you for success. This revised edition has been redesigned and tailored specially for the audiobook listener. Hear from experienced developers and expert publishers how they successfully released their games.

The Secret Science of Games is an accessible and entertaining guide to the hidden role of science in making games more fun. User experience (UX) research is a vital part of the story of how video games have become a cultural juggernaut, but game developers generally don’t speak publicly about how data shapes game design and game development.

How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself is a guide for anyone who wants to make their own video game. Listen to this book to learn how to locate the itch you're eager to scratch, how to pick a game engine to power your vision, and how to find the fun in your game. Most importantly, this book helps you guide your project to the finish line. Written from personal experience by a video game industry veteran and podcaster, it's packed with handmade drawings and charts

Are you a beginner who’d like to know how to program video games? A.E Colonna is an avid gamer and a self-taught game developer who is ready to give you a smooth introduction to video game development. After nine weeks, you’re guaranteed to know the basic coding concepts; you’ll be ready to create your first game using C# and the unity engine.

The book guides you through a step-by-step process of making a commercial game. It teaches you how to learn all the necessary skills and covers various aspects of game development: mindset, preproduction, funding, business, law, development, marketing, PR, publishing, distribution, as well as pre-launch, launch, and post-launch strategies.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the best-selling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year.

This book contains a interesting list of 30 implementable projects in the Indie Game Development scene. All of these projects were created in Game Maker Studio (1 and 2) and can also be implemented in other game engines of the programmer's choice. Each of the projects is graded according to the difficulty and the challenges are highlighted. A difficulty upgrade and downgrade is also included to make the project simpler and easy or more complex but better. A timescale for each of the projects is also implemented to ease the process of applicability of the game concepts in different settings....

From living in an office and selling his apartment to leading $1M+/month games—this is the unfiltered playbook for product managers who want to win. Game development isn't just about ideas and creativity. It's about survival. It's about turning your vision into a product that retains, monetizes, and scales—without burning out your team or going broke. The Game Product Management Handbook gives you the real-world systems, mental models, and growth frameworks used inside studios that ship and scale. No fluff. No theory. Just tactics forged through 16 years of painful pivots, missed ...

Prepare for Unreal Engine 5! Learn the fundamentals of the C++ programming language as well as Unreal Engine’s code base for creating and packaging a complete hack and slash action game. Implement combat, AI and Behavior Trees, animation, gameplay mechanics, interfaces and delegates, collision and physics, ray casting, game saving, menu and HUD creation via UMG, and much more.

Up your game with everything you need to run your next tabletop roleplay game with expert advice, gameplay guidance, and playable content from RPG expert James D’Amato.

The confidence, the dating sphere, and the girl: discover how to become an alpha male to attract the woman of your dreams. Are you trying to get a woman’s attention, but everything you do seems to fly right over her head, and you have no clue why? When you achieve the status of an alpha male, you will instantly become more popular with women, be the leader of the pack, and gain the charm to easily play the game of dating.