The best Gaming books covering Game Design, Game Programming, Game Art and more. Focal Press is an imprint of Routledge.
Focal Press publishes a wide range of Gaming books covering Design, Development, History, Audio & Composition, 2D and 3D Art, Narrative and more. Our books are written by professional and academic experts who are dedicated to helping you take your talent to a higher level.
Learn the mechanics that take your game from an idea to a playable product. Do you aspire to be a game designer but aren’t sure where to begin? Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers guides you through your initial attempts to design game mechanics. It goes beyond simple description and…
Paperback – 2015-09-08
Focal Press
Looking to become more efficient using Unity? How to Cheat in Unity 5 takes a no-nonsense approach to help you achieve fast and effective results with Unity 5. Geared towards the intermediate user, HTC in Unity 5 provides content beyond what an introductory book offers, and allows you to…
Paperback – 2015-07-21
Focal Press
Learn how to create compelling game storylines. Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create this all-inclusive guide on what it's like to work as a writer and narrative designer in the videogame industry. From concept…
Paperback – 2015-06-24
Focal Press
Focal Press Game Design Workshops
Only by finding and focusing on a core mechanism can you further your pursuit of elegance in strategy game design.Clockwork Game Design is the most functional and directly applicable theory for game design. It details the clockwork game design pattern, which focuses on building around fundamental…
Paperback – 2015-05-19
Focal Press
Corona SDK is one of the most powerful tools used to create games and apps for mobile devices. The market requires speed; new developers need to operate quickly and efficiently. Create 2D Mobile Games with Corona SDK gives you the tools needed to master Corona - even within the framework of…
Paperback – 2015-02-24
Focal Press
The indie game developer’s complete guide to running a studio. The climate for the games industry has never been hotter, and this is only set to continue as the marketplace for tablets, consoles and phones grow. Seemingly every day there is a story of how a successful app or game has earned…
Paperback – 2015-02-13
Focal Press
The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron,…
Paperback – 2016-04-13
Routledge
This book, the third volume in the popular Game Engine Gems series, contains 22 new chapters that concisely present particular techniques, describe clever tricks, or offer practical advice within the subject of game engine development. Each chapter is filled with the expert knowledge and wisdom of…
Hardback – 2016-04-11
A K Peters/CRC Press
While formal training and communication are a foundational approach to developing employees in the workplace, alternate reality games (ARGs) provide a framework for increased and sustained engagement within business organizations. ARGs are transmedia experiences designed to generate engagement and…
Paperback – 2016-04-01
A K Peters/CRC Press
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