3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop By Luke Ahearn

As well as the design angle of creating artwork for games, this book also tackles the business side of creating artwork for commercial purposes, making it a wonderful insight into the world of the professional games artist. After reading this you’ll have a far better understanding of what it takes to become successful in the games world, and it will give you the opportunity to begin building a stunning profolio.” – Advanced Photoshop

“This book can help anyone become a better texture professional…Ahearn’s book can and help you become a much better artist, even if you never did much texturing before…The details are simple, but they give anyone who has no Photoshop experience a better idea of what to do. A more experienced reader can gain an in-depth look at how to add improved texture to his projects. 3D Game Textures is a great book for beginners who would like to learn about textures for 3D art. No one should have a problem understanding and using this easy-to-comprehend information.” - Apogee Photo Magazine

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A tutorial for beginning game artists and enthusiasts to learn how to create textures at the professional level. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python

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Physics for Game Programmers

This book is neither code heavy or language-specific, and all chapters include unique, challenging exercises to solve. This fun book also includes historical footnotes and interesting trivia. The style will be light and conversational, and all physics jargon will be properly and clearly explained.
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Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9 (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)

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this book is to satisfy the need for a single accessible textbook which offers a broad introduction to the range of literatures and approaches currently contributing to digital game research. Each of the chapters outline key theoretical perspectives, theorists, and literatures to demonstrate their relevance to, and use in, the study of digital games.
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The Sims 2 Open for Business-Official PRIMA Game Guide

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Design and Use of Serious Games

During the last few years, a new area of creative media industry, namely Serious Games, has started to emerge around the world. The term serious games has become more popular for example in the fields of education, business, welfare and safety. Despite this, there has been no single definition of serious games. A key question, what the concept itself means, has stayed unsolved though most have agreed on a definition that serious games are games or game-like interactive systems developed with game technology and design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment.
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