Games : Video & Electronic

Games on Symbian OS is the only guide to highlight the gaming opportunities presented by the Symbian OS platform, with particular emphasis on the creation of mobile games in C++ using native APIs. Jo Stichbury leads a field of industry experts to provide the reader with detailed information about the key APIs used to create games. The book includes a broad introduction to games on mobile phones and describes the various ways of creating and playing mobile games. It also provides clear code examples and discussion, with information about how to optimise code for best practice. The authors use standard techniques to relay information (tables, diagrams and code samples) as well as cross-referencing between chapters and, where necessary, to other books in the Symbian Press series and beyond (e.g. to SDK documentation). Games on Symbian OS does not focus solely on Symbian C++; readers will also learn how to create mobile games for Symbian OS phones on other platforms such as N-Gage, Flash Lite and J2ME. Highlights include:. * Writing native C++ games on Symbian OS Smartphones. * Java games. * Designing a game for multi-play. * Using phone specific hardware services to make interesting gamesRead Games on Symbian OS and discover your potential to develop mobile games on Symbian OS. more...

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The game industry is not a "future" industry--it is a high-growth US$50B global industry that promises important benefits and implications to society and for science and technology-based industries in general. more...

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A sorcerous cataclysm has remade the ancient and magical world of Sosaria, where a misguided plan to bring ultimate order to the land has altered its destiny forever. Now past, present, and future are one...a unity that sets in motion an astonishing age of discovery and conþict for this strange new world. more...

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Rather than starting from scratch, would-be game developers can take advantage of freely available 3D game engines so that they can focus on the fun part–creating the game–rather than first creating the technology necessary to create the game. Mods alter the way a game is played, whether it means adding a new weapon, adding a whole new level to play, or even changing the rules of the game. This book contains step-by-step instruction for those interested in using id Software’s Quake game engine to create modifications to the game. Covers installing the editor, thinking up an initial mod, making game maps, adding textures, adding characters, and publishing and distributing mods more...

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Following the events of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the beautiful, dangerous, enigmatic Alice returns, and this time she and her fellow survivor Carlos Olivera are running with a pack of humans led by a new ally, Claire Redfield. Together they are cutting through the wastelands of the United States on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the scheming Dr. Isaacs, Alice has zombies hungry for her flesh and the Umbrella Corporation's monstrous lab rats hungry for her blood...while Alice herself hungers only for revenge. more...

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