The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners

This book provides a collection of engaging tutorials that introduce you to the Game Maker tool and teach you how to use it. The first four parts of the book take you step by step through seven different projects using Game Maker’s simple drag-and-drop programming system. By the time you’ve finis...

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Những tác giả chính: Habgood, Jacob, Overmars, Mark
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-349922014-01-20T01:27:40Z The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners Habgood, Jacob Overmars, Mark Game Computer This book provides a collection of engaging tutorials that introduce you to the Game Maker tool and teach you how to use it. The first four parts of the book take you step by step through seven different projects using Game Maker’s simple drag-and-drop programming system. By the time you’ve finished making Evil Clutches, Galactic Mail, Lazarus, Super Rainbow Reef, Koalabr8, Wingman Sam, and Tank War, you’ll have a well-rounded experience of making games with Game Maker. Parts 2, 3, and 4 also end with game design chapters that encourage you to stand back from your creations and consider how principles of game design can be used to make them more fun. Moreover, we don’t just talk about it, but we provide new versions of the games with improved features so that you can experience for yourself how solid game design can lead to good gameplay. Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii About the Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx Part 1 Getting Started Chapter 1 Welcome to Game Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 Your First Game: Devilishly Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Part 2 Action Games Chapter 3 More Actions: A Galaxy of Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Chapter 4 Target the Player: It’s Fun Being Squished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chapter 5 Game Design: Interactive Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Part 3 Level Design Chapter 6 Inheriting Events: Mother of Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Chapter 7 Maze Games: More Cute Things in Peril . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Chapter 8 Game Design: Levels and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 PART 4 Multiplayer Games Chapter 9 Cooperative Games: Flying Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Chapter 10 Competitive Games: Playing Fair with Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Chapter 11 Game Design: Balance in Multiplayer Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 PART 5 Enemies and Intelligence Chapter 12 GML: Become a Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Chapter 13 Clever Computers: Playing Tic-Tac-Toe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Chapter 14 Intelligent Behavior: Animating the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Chapter 15 Final Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 ■Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 2013-07-26T02:21:48Z 2013-07-26T02:21:48Z 2006 Book 978-1-59059-615-9 http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34992 en application/pdf Apress
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Habgood, Jacob
Overmars, Mark
The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners
description This book provides a collection of engaging tutorials that introduce you to the Game Maker tool and teach you how to use it. The first four parts of the book take you step by step through seven different projects using Game Maker’s simple drag-and-drop programming system. By the time you’ve finished making Evil Clutches, Galactic Mail, Lazarus, Super Rainbow Reef, Koalabr8, Wingman Sam, and Tank War, you’ll have a well-rounded experience of making games with Game Maker. Parts 2, 3, and 4 also end with game design chapters that encourage you to stand back from your creations and consider how principles of game design can be used to make them more fun. Moreover, we don’t just talk about it, but we provide new versions of the games with improved features so that you can experience for yourself how solid game design can lead to good gameplay.
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