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The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners [With CDROM]
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The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners [With CDROM] Paperback - 2006

by Jacob Habgood; Mark Overmars

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. The CD contains 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.


From the publisher

Way back when Mario was still a mere twinkling in Miyamoto's eye, I was the proud owner of a state-of-the-art Commodore 64 microcomputer. It came with a game development s- tem called "The Quill," which allowed anyone to create their own text-based adventure games. It may have been incredibly crude, but it suddenly put at my fingertips the thrill of enterta- ing my nearest and dearest by devising "interactive challenges" of my own. Unfortunately, I knew little about game design, and rather than easing my players into a new and alien world, I treated them as opponents that had to be defeated before they could reach the end. Their sp- its crushed, they left, never to return . . . It took me years of playing a variety of good (and bad) games to eventually learn how to treat the player to the game-playing experience that their investment of time and money deserved. It took just hours of reading this book to wish I'd had its invaluable guidelines and the accompanying Game Maker tool to help me take my own first steps into game devel- ment all those years ago.

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  • Title The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners [With CDROM]
  • Author Jacob Habgood; Mark Overmars
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Pages 314
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Apress, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-07-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781590596159 / 1590596153
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7 x 0.7 in (25.15 x 17.78 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Computer games - Design, Electronic games - Design
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.1

About the author

Jacob Habgood worked in the U.K. games industry for seven years, writing console games for Gremlin Interactive and Infogrames/Atari. During this time, he contributed to a wide range of titles and lead the programming teams on MicroMachines (PS2, X-Box and Game Cube) and Hogs of War (PlayStation). Jacob is now a doctoral student at the University of Nottingham, researching the educational potential of computer games. As part of this research, Jacob runs clubs and workshops teaching children and teenagers how to make their own computer games, providing free activities and resources through his website: www.gamelearning.net.
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