The game maker's apprentice : game development for beginners
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
Print Book, English, ©2006
Apress ; Distributed by Springer, Berkeley, CA, New York, NY, ©2006
xxi, 311 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
9781590596159, 1590596153
70857785
Your first game : devilishly easy
Action games
More actions : a galaxy of possibilities
Target the player: it's fun being squished
Game design : interactive challenges
Inheriting events : mother of pearl
Maze games : more cute things in peril
Game design : levels and features
Cooperative games : flying planes
Competitive games : playing fair with tanks
Game design : balance in multiplayer games
GML : become a programmer
Clever computers : playing tic-tac-toe
Intelligent behavior : animating the dead
"Technology in action"--Cover
"User level: Beginner"--Page 4 of cover