Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold (Wordware Game Developer's Library)

Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold (Wordware Game Developer's Library)

by Chad Walker (Author), Eric Walker (Author), Jani Kajala (Author)

Synopsis

Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to getting started in the computer game industry. Written by professional game designers and developers, this book combines the fields of design, art, scripting, and programming in one book to help you take your first steps toward creating a game demo. Discover how the use of documentation can help you organize the game design process; understand how to model and animate a variety of objects, including human characters; explore the basics of scripting with Lua; learn about texturing, vertex lighting, light mapping, motion capture, and collision checking. The companion CD contains all the code and other files needed for the tutorials, the Ka3D game engine, the Zax demo, all the images in the book, demo software, and more!

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 406
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Published: 30 May 2005

ISBN 10: 1556220480
ISBN 13: 9781556220487

Author Bio
Chad Walker is a computer game artist, comic book illustrator, author, and instructor. He attended the exclusive Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Arts, Inc. Jani Kajala is a professional game programmer whose professional credits include lead programmer on such projects as Bladeball and Dead Justice from Cat Mother, Ltd., a game development company he founded in July 2001.