Game Development Tools, Second Edition

This second edition brings fresh insights from game professionals, digital content creators, hardware vendors, and current researchers together into a collection that focuses on the most underrepresented and critical part of game production: tools development. Continuing to focus on practical, implementable tools for game development professionals, this edition provides guidelines, assessments of tools, and third-party applications for game developers. It covers asset tracking, improving remote version control performance, building pipelines that work, GPU debugging, and using in-game audio tools. Technical artists as well as game play, audio, and graphics programmers will find new tools to improve work flow and build games faster.