premier press game development series

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Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 12:02

... unexpected results. This type of game usually appeals to adolescents or hard-core RPG gamers. • Games of Chance—Any game based upon random result. Most casino games are games of chance, with a little ... using a more sophisticated game board, as with Trivial Pursuit. Most game shows are based on trivia. The audience for trivia games is the mass market. • Word Games—These games involve the creation ... machines, or the card game War are the most basic games of chance. Games such as Backgammon involve chance, but also require a great amount of strategy. • Sports Games—These games allow the player...

Ngày tải lên: 16/08/2012, 11:34

... Summary 41 Chapter 3. Big Games, Small Screens 42 Your Competition 42 WAP Games 43 i-mode Games 54 SMS Games 55 J2ME MIDP Games 57 J2ME Palm Games 65 iAppli Games 67 What Are You ... professional game companies often spend as much as a third of the game development cycle on playtesting and redesign. Show Me the Money: Micro Game Business Models If you are a commercial game developer, ... act, you might be able to create a type of game that nobody has ever thought of before. The Game Design Process Every game designer develops his or her game using a different process. Some people...

Ngày tải lên: 10/10/2013, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 14:25

... called usability. Having far less development resources to tap than Microsoft, Eidos Chapter 3: What Makes Game Development Hard? 27 ruthless pursuit of a clean, tight game can you hope to make a great game. The rest ... with no 26 Chapter 3: What Makes Game Development Hard? A Brief History of Software Development How to make a game, I believe, is the most elusive question in the game industry. In fact, the software ... including the PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, N64, Game Boy Color, GameCube, and Xbox. Role-Playing Games Role-Playing Games No discussion of game making could be complete without discussing storytell - ing....

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 04:15

... teams. Game Development Is Software Development Games are certainly special; however, a point I will be making repeatedly throughout this book is that game development is software development. Games ... 8 Gambling, Puzzle, and Parlor Games 8 Military and Sports Simulations 10 Role-Playing Games 12 Youth Making Games 13 On Money 13 Why Make Games? 14 Chapter 3 What Makes Game Development Hard? 15 The ... a cursory exposure to formalized game development. Parts I and II discuss the chal - lenges of game development thoroughly and introduce you to effec - tive methods of game development to use on your...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 04:15

... unexpected results. This type of game usually appeals to adolescents or hard-core RPG gamers. • Games of Chance—Any game based upon random result. Most casino games are games of chance, with a little ... using a more sophisticated game board, as with Trivial Pursuit. Most game shows are based on trivia. The audience for trivia games is the mass market. • Word Games—These games involve the creation ... board games such as chess, Reversi, Connect Four, and checkers are strategy games. The audience for this type of classic turn-based game is truly mass market. • Role Playing Games (RPG)—These games...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 20:20

... 59 Designing the Game Framework 59 The GameObjectBase Class 60 The SpriteObject Class 60 The TextObject Class 64 The GameHost Class 66 The GameHelper Class 71 Using the Game Framework 71 Referencing ... the GameFramework Project 72 Setting Inheritance for the Main Game Class 73 Creating Derived SpriteObject Classes 73 Adding Game Objects to the Game Host 78 Removing Objects from the Game ... Considerations 86 Game in Focus: Cosmic Rocks (Part I) 89 Designing the Game 90 Creating the Graphics 90 Creating the Game Objects 91 Running the Game 97 Creating XNA Games 98 ■Chapter...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... Profiling 454 A Simple Memory Leak Test 455 Development Steps: A Memory Leak Test 459 Development Steps Continued: Using the Instruments Application 467 Development Steps Continued: Using Build ... for the iPhone and iPod Touch 95 Development Steps: Creating a Modal View for the iPhone and iPod Touch 96 Test Your Application 105 A Modal View for the iPad 106 Development Steps: Creating a ... and Popping Items 3 A Simple Navigation Bar 3 Development Steps: A Simple Navigation Bar 4 Test Your Application 17 The Toolbar 17 A Simple Toolbar 18 Development Steps: A Simple Toolbar 18 Test...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 00:20

... 382 Creating the GameInformation and DiceGame Supporting Classes 383 DiceGame.cs 383 GameInformation.cs 385 Button.cs 385 Creating the Game Lobby 386 GameLobby.cs 386 Message.cs 394 Creating the GameInfo ... two development strategies: Silverlight, which is primarily used for application development, and XNA, which is used for game development. This book focuses on game development with XNA Game ... values.</param> protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime) { // Allows the game to exit if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Buttons.Back == ButtonState.Pressed) this.Exit(); // TODO: Add...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 00:20

... Development Let’s take a look now at the steps required to begin development of Windows Phone games and applications. Installing Visual Studio Installing Visual Studio for Windows Phone development ... Gameboy, people realized that they could take their games out and about with them, and as technology has become more sophisticated these games have grown, too. They now encompass complex game ... in a game, we can take care to behave nicely under these conditions: we can save the game state to the device prior to exiting so that it can be automatically restored the next time the game...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 19:20

... entities using objects in Chapter 6. Adding the Game Logic Now we can start on the actual game logic. Game logic includes any code that actually makes the game play happen. It can be composed of physics, ... everything in Game1 . As a general rule, putting too much functionality in Game1 is a terrible idea, but for really small projects, it’s forgivable. If we were making a larger game, or a game we might ... Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. As of the second version of XNA Game Studio, you can choose to develop games in any version of Visual Studio 2005, including Express, Standard, and Professional....

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... experienced game developer. She started her game development career in game programming. She has programmed for an acon game, KengoZero on the Xbox360, and for a Massively Mulplayer Online Game ... developers. Visual Studio Express and C++ game code As discussed earlier, programmers basically rule the world when it comes to game development. For this reason, having C++ game code released in ... later moved over to the games industry. He has experience in various aspects of the soware industry, from databases and tools development, to mulple aspects of games development, such as arcial...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 03:20

... share of my game development experiences to show how interactive games are made. I believe that learning to program is not at all about memorizing API methods, yet a lot of game development ... the games you’re building onto your iOS device. To do so, you must create an iPhone Development Certificate, register your iOS device, and enable it for development. Finally, you’ll create Development ... director for Nanaimo Studio, a game studio based out of Seattle and Shanghai that specializes in web and mobile games. He has extensive experience with game development and interactive media,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 07:20

... in the game. When you allow a player to control a game by interacting directly with the parts of the game, the player feels more involved with the game. Think about building a board game like ... playing the game very often as you are developing it. If the game is not fun, you will not enjoy the development process and this will show through in the game. Think about what makes games fun ... to it than that. Writing games is fun! If you like to write interesting programs and solve diffi cult problems, you will enjoy writing games. Also, games are a very expressive form of programming....

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... draw text with it. Game ig .Game is the main hub for your game. It hosts all currently active entities, Back- groundMaps, and a CollisionMap. You can subclass your own game class from ig .Game. Image ig.Image ... Introduction To Game Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 What is Game Design? 19 Sample Game Design Document 21 Gameplay 21 Exploring ... insight if your game ideas need more work. 20 | Chapter 3: Introduction To Game Design www.it-ebooks.info Setting Up a New Impact Project Impact is a self-contained project. Each game you create...

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