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Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard
Create 3D Games Using Amazon Lumberyard and Lua|
CHF 45.00 |
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| Verlag: | Apress |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 25.09.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781484250730 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
<p>Create stunning 3D games in a short amount of time using Amazon Lumberyard, a free and exciting game development platform. This book is a ground-up, out-of-the-box tutorial on 3D game development and programming with Lua and Amazon Lumberyard with little or no game development experience required. </p><p><i>Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard </i>walks you through the user interface of the Amazon Lumberyard engine; teaches you how to develop detailed terrain using heightmaps, megatextures, weather, and vegetation; and takes you through exporting the game for distribution. The book will show you how to create a player as well as enemies while not getting bogged down with third-party tools for animation or model creation. You will also work with simple physics, colliders, meshes, weather generation, Lua scripting, user interface development, and much more.</p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to create many different types of video games using the Amazon Lumberyard engine and even have a completed project ready to release or put in your portfolio.</p><p><b>What You Will Learn</b></p><p></p><ul><li>Discover the mechanics and terminology of game development</li><li>Familiarize yourself with the Amazon Lumberyard game engine in detail</li><li>Modify game scripts using the Lua language</li><li>Discover how to optimally structure game layers</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Who This Book is For</b></p><p>Developers, programmers, and would-be game designers who have long wanted to dip their toes into the world of game development but have found other game engines and platforms to have too high a barrier to entry.</p><div><br></div><p></p>
Chapter 1: Environment Setup and Introduction to the Engine.- Chapter 2: Learning to Navigate the Engine.- Chapter 3: Creating your first Project.- Chapter 4: Terrain Development.- Chapter 5: Entities and Slices.- Chapter 6: Components.- Chapter 7: Creating the Enemy.- Chapter 8: Scripting and Physics.- Chapter 9: Polishing.- Chapter 10: Setting up a User Interface.- Chapter 11: Exporting the Game.
<p>Jaken Herman is a software engineer living in Texas. Jaken holds a bachelor of science in computer science with a focus on software engineering from Sam Houston State University. Outside of university, Jaken worked as a software engineering contractor at NASA. He has worked with many different and new technologies and has an ever-expanding wealth of information on all topics related to programming. In game development, he has academic experience as well as hands-on hobbyist experience having created many mobile-based games, a side-scrolling platformer, and a racing game.</p>
<p>Create stunning 3D games in a short amount of time using Amazon Lumberyard, a free and exciting game development platform. This book is a ground-up, out-of-the-box tutorial on 3D game development and programming with Lua and Amazon Lumberyard with little or no game development experience required. </p><p><i>Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard </i>walks you through the user interface of the Amazon Lumberyard engine; teaches you how to develop detailed terrain using heightmaps, megatextures, weather, and vegetation; and takes you through exporting the game for distribution. The book will show you how to create a player as well as enemies while not getting bogged down with third-party tools for animation or model creation. You will also work with simple physics, colliders, meshes, weather generation, Lua scripting, user interface development, and much more.</p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to create many different types of video games using the Amazon Lumberyard engine and even have a completed project ready to release or put in your portfolio.</p><p>You will:</p><p></p><ul><li>Discover the mechanics and terminology of game development</li><li>Familiarize yourself with the Amazon Lumberyard game engine in detail</li><li>Modify game scripts using the Lua language</li><li>Discover how to optimally structure game layers</li></ul><p></p><p></p>
Includes a fully playable 3D game Teaches Amazon Lumberyard—a new and exciting game engine Demonstrates how to structure game layers in an organized fashion
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