Game Development

Build Game Engines That Run Circles Around the CompetitionTired of “intro” books that never go deep? This is the real C++ game engine playbook—packed with advanced systems, proven patterns, and hard-hitting techniques that separate hobby projects from professional-grade engines.

A 24-year game design veteran's field manual for putting generative AI to work in real production — with every prompt, every line of code, and every verification step disclosed.

Learn how to create, design, and integrate game audio and music using Unity and FMOD, from sound effects and ambience to interactive audio systems and dynamic music. Includes a complete video game project to put your knowledge into practice.

Descubre cómo crear, diseñar e integrar música, efectos, ambientes y diálogos en videojuegos con Unity y FMOD, y ponlo en práctica con un videojuego real completo.

You don't need Unity to make a game. A text editor, a browser, and 24 chapters: build a complete Breakout from scratch, then your own games — with the HTML5 Canvas and nothing else.

Don’t just play games, create them! With this book, your ideas can become your own game in the Godot programming language. Share your game with friends and the world!

This Developer's Guide is the second in the "Disciples of Renown™" gaming series. It leads you through the development of the "Sanctify Hollowed Grounds" Role-Playing Game in both Construct v3 & v2 encoding formats. It's perfect for novices, experienced web developers, and anyone wanting their own bespoke game, artwork, and features.

Can you defeat the dragon? In The Dragon's Code, you won't just read about Python. You'll use it to create a real terminal adventure game from scratch. Explore mysterious rooms, battle monsters, solve puzzles, collect treasure, and face a dragon in an adventure where every chapter unlocks a new game mechanic and a new programming skill. No experience required.Just curiosity and a little courage!

Build games that run almost anywhere with SDL3. This book starts with the basics and steadily moves into advanced graphics, audio, input, and application design using practical, real-world examples. Every chapter includes complete code you can compile and experiment with, helping you understand not just how SDL3 works, but how to use it to build fast, portable applications with confidence.

Learn Lua from your first script to advanced programming techniques with a practical, hands-on guide. Whether you are building games, scripting applications, or exploring embedded systems, this book gives you the knowledge to write clean, efficient Lua code with confidence.

Build a game from scratch in Go, no engine magic, just code you understand. You'll create Gopher Survivor, a Vampire Survivors–style action game, one concept per chapter: enemies, weapons, XP and level-ups, particles, a state machine, and a build you can ship.

Stop playing other people's dungeons. Build your own RPG roguelike in Python and hand it to a friend who had no idea you could do that.

Game producers already have most of what AI collaboration requires. They have been managing context, decomposing work, and evaluating output for years. This book is the map from where they are to where the work is going.

What happens when intelligent agents must negotiate, cooperate, compete, and learn simultaneously?Welcome to the advanced frontier of Artificial Intelligence.Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence (VOL-2) explores how modern AI systems make strategic decisions in environments filled with uncertainty, multiple objectives, competing interests, and dynamic interactions.Inside this volume, readers will discover:✓ Nash Q-Learning and Strategic Reinforcement Learning✓ Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)✓ DQN, Actor-Critic, MADDPG, QMIX, and CTDE Frameworks✓ Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering✓ Decision Making Under Uncertainty✓ Social Choice Theory and Collective Intelligence✓ Game-Theoretic Machine Learning✓ Robotics, Cybersecurity, Economics, and Communication Networks✓ Evolutionary Game Theory and Learning Dynamics✓ Quantum Game Theory and Future AI Research✓ AI Safety, Alignment, and GovernanceFrom autonomous vehicles and intelligent robots to cybersecurity defense systems and large-scale AI simulations, this book provides the theoretical and practical foundations necessary to understand the future of strategic artificial intelligence.Whether you are a student, researcher, engineer, or AI professional, this volume offers a roadmap to some of the most exciting and influential areas of modern AI research.