Mobile Game Design Essentials
Dr. Claudio Scolastici, David Nolte
- 出版商: Packt Publishing
- 出版日期: 2013-06-27
- 售價: $2,150
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,043
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 358
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 184969298X
- ISBN-13: 9781849692984
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相關分類:
遊戲設計 Game-design
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商品描述
Immerse yourself in the fundamentals of mobile game design. This book is written by two highly experienced industry professionals to give real insights and valuable advice on creating games for this lucrative market.
Overview
- Packed with the best practices in game development, and the methodologies and tricks to create fun, polished games
- Detailed descriptions of software and methodologies to create graphics and audio for video games
- References to the most popular programming and scripting languages and development kits
In Detail
The videogame industry is not affected by the economic crisis as the market expands each year. In addition to that, the mobile market offers the opportunity to small teams with limited budgets to create successful games that can compete with the big companies. This is a guide to help you take a share of this huge market.
Mobile Game Design Essentials will teach you how to develop professional quality games for mobile platforms. You will learn how to take advantage of devices and their built-in technologies. Get to know the best software and programming languages to create videogames from scratch and detailed tutorials to get your hands dirty with the common practices of game development.
Mobile Game Design Essentials introduces you to smartphones, their operating systems, and development environments. It describes in detail the roles required by an indie team of mobile developers, the most popular software to create graphics and audio for games, the most used programming languages, and the best game engines. It also provides several tutorials detailing efficient game development and prototyping.
Starting with a description of the mobile platforms and the roles to cover when building up your own indie team, Mobile Game Design Essentials then provides a description of the techniques and software used to create graphics and audio for games and the coding languages and development environments used by programmers. It also aims to acquaint you with the best practices of mobile game design and development, by addressing the importance of the prototype-test-polish cycle and the analysis of the distinctive aspects of mobile game design. Finally, it concludes with a step-by-step guide to create the presentation document for your next mobile game.
Mobile Game Design Essentials covers everything you need to know to get started in the mobile game industry; from collecting your team, recommendations on development software, to marketing and publication.
What you will learn from this book
- Get to know who makes up a game development team and how to select the right people for yours
- Discover the most popular graphics software applications as well as understand the guidelines to produce graphics efficiently
- Explore the most popular audio software applications and how to produce sound effects and music for your games
- Get well versed with the programming languages used in mobile game development
- Learn what the most common input systems and controls used in mobile games are
- Understand what the most popular game engines used in mobile game development are and which are appropriate to your game’s characteristics
- Get acquainted with the game development process from concept to release
- Learn how to publish and market your mobile game
Approach
A step-by-step guide with plenty of reference images, examples, and tutorials to help you develop a game right from its conceptualization through to its release in the market.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
沉浸於手機遊戲設計的基礎知識中。這本書由兩位經驗豐富的行業專業人士撰寫,提供真實的見解和有價值的建議,教你如何在這個利潤豐厚的市場上創建遊戲。
概述:
- 充滿遊戲開發的最佳實踐、創造有趣、精緻遊戲的方法和技巧
- 詳細描述用於視頻遊戲的圖形和音頻創建的軟件和方法
- 引用最流行的編程和腳本語言以及開發工具包
詳細內容:
電子遊戲行業每年都在擴大,不受經濟危機的影響。此外,移動市場為有限預算的小團隊提供了創建成功遊戲並與大公司競爭的機會。本書將指導你在這個巨大市場中分一杯羹。
《移動遊戲設計基礎》將教你如何為移動平台開發專業質量的遊戲。你將學習如何利用設備及其內置技術。了解創建視頻遊戲的最佳軟件和編程語言,並通過詳細的教程深入了解遊戲開發的常見實踐。
《移動遊戲設計基礎》介紹了智能手機、其操作系統和開發環境。它詳細描述了移動開發人員獨立團隊所需的角色、用於遊戲的最流行的圖形和音頻軟件、最常用的編程語言和最佳遊戲引擎。它還提供了幾個教程,詳細介紹了高效的遊戲開發和原型製作。
從描述移動平台和建立自己的獨立團隊所需的角色開始,《移動遊戲設計基礎》提供了用於創建遊戲的技術和軟件的描述,以及程序員使用的編程語言和開發環境。它還旨在通過介紹原型-測試-完善循環的重要性和分析移動遊戲設計的獨特方面,使你熟悉移動遊戲設計和開發的最佳實踐。最後,它提供了一個逐步指南,教你如何為下一個移動遊戲創建演示文檔。
《移動遊戲設計基礎》涵蓋了你在移動遊戲行業中所需了解的一切,從組建團隊、開發軟件的建議到市場營銷和發布。
從本書中你將學到:
- 了解遊戲開發團隊的組成以及如何為你的團隊選擇合適的人員
- 探索最流行的圖形軟件應用程序,並了解高效製作圖形的指南
- 探索最流行的音頻軟件應用程序,以及如何為你的遊戲製作音效和音樂
- 熟悉移動遊戲開發中使用的編程語言
- 了解移動遊戲中最常用的輸入系統和控制方式
- 了解移動遊戲開發中最流行的遊戲引擎,以及適合你遊戲特性的引擎
- 熟悉從概念到發布的遊戲開發過程
- 學習如何發布和營銷你的移動遊戲
方法:
這是一本逐步指南,提供了大量的參考圖片、示例和教程,幫助你從概念化到市場發布開發遊戲。