computer games

Provides a guide to creating video games, covering character development, challenging levels, design, and how to market your game.

Lean the basics of trapping in Minecraft, to built TNT based traps, to create various water and lava based traps, to create crushing traps, to create miscellaneous traps, and some useful tips and tricks.

"Scratch is a fun, beginner-friendly programming environment popular in schools around the world. Its playful, intuitive interface uses colorful programming blocks and cartoon sprites to make real programming more approachable. Learn to Program with Scratch shows just how much you can do with Scratch and teaches you essential, universal programming concepts along the way. In Learn to Program with Scratch, author Majed Marji takes you on a tour through Scratch's surprisingly powerful features to teach programming concepts like procedures, variables, loops, recursion, decision making, and lists. You will use your new-found skills to create science simulations, math projects, and even some fun arcade games! Each chapter offers a summary and practice exercises at the end to make sure the lessons stick. Scratch is an incredibly fun and easy language to learn, plus you can do some seriously potent programming with it. Learn to Program with Scratch will help you get the most out of Scratch and begin your journey into the world of programming"--.

A biography of game designer, Jane McGonigal.

Path survivor Michael continues VirtNet Security's efforts to stop cyber-terrorist Kaine from completing his Mortality Doctrine plot to conquer humanity with controlling tangent mind technology.

High school senior Amanda Jackson, fascinated by the dark side of human nature, must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.

"When the top secret Department for Extraordinary Activity discovers that an evil computer game character has escaped from the Virtual world and is intent on causing chaos, they know the time has come for Max's first mission. There are dangerous monsters to fight and a perilous plot to foil. Does Max have the special skills needed to save the day?"--Provided by publisher.

Explains the basic and more complex functions of the C++ program through the use of game codes and examples, with instructions for creating nine different games and a CD-ROM with projects, resource files, figures, and more.

A guide to breaking in to the computer and video game industry that provides insider tips and information on each step of the process.

Provides an overview of various careers in the online gaming industry, with information on game designer, producer, programmer, and other specific jobs in the field.