Digital Animation

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to foundational topics in sound design for interactive media, such as gaming and virtual reality;...

Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide t...

This book provides readers with the tools and methods with which to create effective tabletop games. It covers the design and development process t...

The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the latest version of Unity and its workflow by guiding readers through various prototypes. These r...

Media independence is central to the organization, make-up, working practices and output of media systems across the globe. Often stemming from wes...

This book provides readers with the tools and methods with which to create effective tabletop games. It covers the design and development process t...

In this book, veteran game developers, academics, journalists, and others provide their processes and experiences with level design. Each provides ...

The success of storytelling in games depends on the entire development team—game designers, artists, writers, programmers and musicians, etc.—worki...

Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together t...

Finally bridge the gap between software-specific instruction and the world of classical animation with this easy to utilize, one-of-a-kind referenc...

Timing for Animation has been one of the pillars of animation since it was first published in 1981. Now this 40th anniversary edition captures the ...

Digital art practitioners work under the constant threat of a medium – the digital – that objectifies the self and depersonalises artistic identiti...

This edited collection considers various meanings of the "Spotification" of music and other media. Specifically, it replies to the editor’s call to...

Inspired by Roland Barthes’s practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, disco...

One of the most acclaimed writers in animation returns with this informal sequel to his previous books on indie animation, Unsung Heroes of Animati...

Game Design Critic and expert Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and ...

Learn what it takes to design a video game, as a hobby or as a career! Video Game Design For Dummies teaches you what it takes to design games from...

This book is the perfect toolkit for any developer who wishes to transform an idea into a viable business. From the experience of a game designer a...

This edited volume explores the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in higher education, specifically focusing on student assessment. It...

Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment 5th edition delves into the fascinating and groundbreaking stories enabled by ...

Playtesting Best Practices: Real World and Online covers the complete journey of playtesting - the iterative journey to shape and refine tabletop g...

This book posits a novel framework for sense-making and meaning-making in the play of video games. Extending a modern, process-oriented, audience-i...

Event-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of bui...

Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment 5th edition delves into the fascinating and groundbreaking stories enabled by ...

This book is the perfect toolkit for any developer who wishes to transform an idea into a viable business. From the experience of a game designer a...

This book posits a novel framework for sense-making and meaning-making in the play of video games. Extending a modern, process-oriented, audience-i...

Every writer dreams of creating their own game world and telling their own stories. But creating a new game from scratch is different from working ...

Floating point is ubiquitous in computers, where it is the default way to represent non-integer numbers. However, few people understand it. We all ...

Maya 8 Character Modeling takes a unique approach to modeling as it breaks down character creation using an easy-to-follow formula that makes the l...

Floating point is ubiquitous in computers, where it is the default way to represent non-integer numbers. However, few people understand it. We all ...

This is a start-to-finish guide on how to build high-quality vegetation for video games. The book gives readers the fundamentals of the craft and t...

This book supports readers to transition to more advanced independent game projects by deepening their understanding of the concept development pro...