Learn C++ from scratch and get started building your very own games. This book offers a fun way to learn modern C++ programming while building exciting 2D games.

"This book examines the entire game development process and all the unique challenges associated with creating a game."

This book details the clockwork game design pattern, which focuses on building around fundamental functionality. You can then use this understanding to prescribe a system for building and refining your rulesets.

Get ready to flex your creativity as you build custom Flash games online. "Collaborative Online Game Creation" shows anyone interested in game development how to create Flash-based games using GameBrix, a browser-based rich media application that runs on any Internet platform.

The first book in its field to challenge scholars and researchers to answer questions such as: How can game design be improved to foster ethical thinking and discourse? What are the theories and methodologies that will help us understand, model, and assess ethical thinking in games? How do we use games in classrooms and informal educational settings to support moral development?

Gundolf S. Freyermuths introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analog and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies.Drawing on more than a decade of practical experience and extensive research, he explains how games have been integrated into a variety of public programs in North and South America.

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