Berinstein / Arnaud / Robinet Game Development Tool Essentials

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4302-6701-0
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, eBook

Game Development Tool Essentials provides must-have tips and tricks from industry professionals for strengthening and streamlining your game tools pipeline. Everyone knows the game tools pipeline is important, but in the current environment of shrinking budgets and increased time pressure, developers often have to settle for inefficient, ad hoc, messy pipelines. This unique book will break you out of that cycle. The practical, expert insights contained within will enable you to work faster and more efficiently, so you can spend more time making cool things. Game Development Tool Essentials pools the knowledge and experience of working developers over four critical aspects of the game tools pipeline: asset and data management, geometry and models, Web tools, and programming. Within those sections, you will learn cutting-edge techniques on essential subjects such as COLLADA rendering, exporting and workflow; asset management and compiler architecture; and moving tools to the cloud. If you’re a game developer, you need Game Development Tool Essentials. Covers readily available tools and tools developers can build themselves. Presents 96 code samples, 81 illustrations, and end-of-chapter references. Special chapter on moving tools to the cloud.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berinstein, Paula

Arnaud, Remi

Robinet, Fabrice

Ardolino, Alessandro

Ronchi, Christian

Franco, Simon

Turkowski, Rita

Herubel, Adrien

Walter, Robert

McCutchan, John

Samour, Gustavo

Nedelcu, Nicusor

Ni,

Nitschke, Benjamin

Olmstead, Don

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Asset and Data ManagementPlug-in based Asset Compiler ArchitectureAsset Data ManagementPart 2: Geometry and Models3D Format ConversionBuilding Procedural Geometry Using MAXScriptA Uniform Geometry Workflow for Animated Feature FilmsRock-solid Content Pipeline with the COLLADA Conformance Test SuiteRendering COLLADA Assets on Mac OS X with Scene KitCOLLADA Exporter for Unity Developers in the Unity Asset StorePart 3: Web ToolsUtilizing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to Create Rich Debugging InformationMoving Tools to the Cloud: Control, Configure, and Monitor your Game with WebSocketPart 4: ProgrammingDecoupling Game Tool GUIs from Core Editing OperationsBuilding a Game Prototyping Tool for Android Mobile DevicesEngineering Domain-specific Languages for Games

Über Autor(innen)

Paula Berinstein is the author of numerous how-to books and articles and former producer/host of The Writing Show podcast. She wrote the COLLADA CTS for the Khronos Group and is a former member of the Khronos COLLADA work group.