Digital Animation

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

This book is for those who want to learn the craft or mechanics of animation, how to actually animate a scene from start to finish, or take their a...

This book is a first and long-awaited study of the directorial work of the animation master Fëdor Khitruk (1917–2012), an artist who formed in the ...

This book is for those who want to learn the craft or mechanics of animation, how to actually animate a scene from start to finish, or take their a...

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 ...

Learning Java Through Games teaches students how to use the different features of the Java language as well as how to program. Suitable for self-st...

GPU Pro4: Advanced Rendering Techniques presents ready-to-use ideas and procedures that can help solve many of your day-to-day graphics programming...

"An entertaining, race-against-time narrative." —Kobo review"A fast-paced look into seven-day roguelikes, something so niche most people wouldn't h...

RUNS, JUMPS AND SKIPSFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.The Animator's Survival Kit is the essentia...

This collection offers an expansive, multiplatform exploration of the rapidly-expanding area of motion design and motion graphics, taking into acco...

This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyda...

This collection offers an expansive, multiplatform exploration of the rapidly-expanding area of motion design and motion graphics, taking into acco...

Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms, Second Edition compiles hundreds of game mechanisms, organized by category....

This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyda...

"An entertaining, race-against-time narrative." —Kobo review"A fast-paced look into seven-day roguelikes, something so niche most people wouldn't h...

This book is a fast-paced look at the next two decades of the games industry with a focus on game design, the evolution of gaming markets around th...

Focussing on the independent videogames sector, this book provides readers with a vocabulary to articulate and build their games writing practice; ...

Want to work in community management in the games industry? Then this is the book for you. Filled with practical advice and real-world examples, th...

This comprehensive guide walks readers through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly w...

Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L. Craddo...

This is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from th...

This comprehensive guide walks readers through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly w...

This book provides critical commentary on key issues around virtual reality, using media technology as a tool to challenge perspectives for learnin...

Drawn to Life is a two-volume collection of the legendary lectures of long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield. For over 20 years, Walt mentored ...

Based on the auto-ethnographic work of a team of scholars who developed the first Black Digital Humanities program at a research institution, this ...

This book aims to provide readers with a systematic understanding of traditional visual effects production, covering both internal VFX studio opera...

This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance’s relationship to the archive. The contributions in the volume examine how th...

Drawn to Life is a two-volume collection of the legendary lectures of long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield. For over 20 years, Walt mentored ...

The Game Audio Strategy Guide is a comprehensive text designed to turn both novices and experienced audio designers into technical game audio pros....

Games can be used to model systems because they are themselves systems. Video games handle this under the hood and teach you as you play, but becau...

This book aims to provide readers with a systematic understanding of traditional visual effects production, covering both internal VFX studio opera...

Learning Java Through Games teaches students how to use the different features of the Java language as well as how to program. Suitable for self-st...

With its unique focus on video game engines, the data-driven architectures of game development and play, this innovative textbook examines the impa...

A uniquely interdisciplinary look at storytelling in digital, analogue, and hybridised contexts, this book traces different ways stories are experi...

The Game Audio Strategy Guide is a comprehensive text designed to turn both novices and experienced audio designers into technical game audio pros....

With its unique focus on video game engines, the data-driven architectures of game development and play, this innovative textbook examines the impa...

Welcome to the fourth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices – the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and ...

This book presents 71 practical game design tools that readers can use to solve real-world game design problems. Written to be a "toolbox" for game...

Want to work as a games tester in the video games industry? Then this is the book for you. This book provides all the essential information and gui...

Welcome to the fourth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices – the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and ...

All games are potentially transformative experiences because they engage the player in dynamic action. When repurposed in an educational context, e...

Based on the PocketGamer MasterClass Building a Pitch: From Concept to Document (2021), a decade’s worth of industry experience and numerous indust...

Want to work as a games tester in the video games industry? Then this is the book for you. This book provides all the essential information and gui...

Game Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics to the art and execution of s...

Want to become a writer in the games industry? Then this is the book is for you. Award-winning game writer Anna Megill provides all the essential i...

This is a practical guide to help budding entrepreneurs think about various planning aspects of their proposed games business, with a view to growi...