Overview
Author Mark Overmars also created the popular Game Maker software, and runs the Game Maker website and forums. The site boasts over 100,000 downloads every month
Author to promote heavily throughout his website
Game design and creation is taught with a simple drag-and-drop interface - ideal for beginners, who are put off by too much code too quickly
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Started
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Level Design
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Multiplayer Games
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Front Matter
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Enemies and Intelligence
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About this book
The Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play.
Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl.
The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so you'll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes a DVD containing Game Maker software and all of the game projects that are created in the book—plus a host of professional-quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The desire to create computer games attracts many young people to computing. This book meets the needs of this group of readers and students very well. It is also a fine introduction to the making of computer games for the experienced software developer who always wondered how games were made. … There are excellent software development lessons that can be learned using this book … . the book provides a superb introduction to programming as well as to game construction." (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (5), May, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Game Maker's Apprentice
Book Subtitle: Game Development for Beginners
Authors: Jacob Habgood, Mark Overmars
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0159-5
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Apress 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-615-9Published: 10 July 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0159-5Published: 31 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 314
Topics: Game Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems