"This in-depth, practical guide describes high-performance computing on general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) using DirectX 11. Suitable for game developers and computing professionals, the book cohesively blends principles, practice, and software engineering and includes many algorithm examples and high-quality source code to illustrate the concepts. A fully featured engine for computing and graphics helps readers avoid having to write...

"With by section editors drawn from a variety of areas in rendering techniques, especially as concerns interactive media and games, this book covers advanced techniques that run on the DirectX or OpenGL run-times, or any other run-time with any language available. It includes topics such as geometry manipulation, rendering techniques, handheld devices programming, effects in image space, shadows, 3D Engine Design, and graphics related tools, environmental...

Provides a foundation for developing and publishing Android games.

"Want to be an App Developer? Even if you haven't read code before, you can begin with this book. iOS Game Programming with Xcode and Cocos2d serves as a start-to-finish guide for anyone looking to begin iOS development using Cocos2d and Xcode. Author Justin Dike teaches iOS game programming using high resolution images, video models, and color coded examples throughout the entire book. Anyone learning Xcode & Cocos2d, beginner or otherwise, will...

Introduction and Overview James ReindersIntroduction Overview of Case Studies MotivationProgram in Tasks, Not Threads Value of Abstraction Scaling and Vectorization Advancing Programming Languages for Parallel Programming Parallel Programming in C and C++ Data Movement and Layout Summary Additional ReadingHoudini: Multithreading Existing Software Jeff LaitWhat Is Houdini? Rewrite or Refactor Patterns Copy on Write Dependencies OpenCL The Presto Execution...

"This book presents the essential math needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. It provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices, orientation in three dimensions, introduction to calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves"--Provided by publisher.

Game AI Pro 2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents cutting-edge game artificial intelligence (AI) techniques primarily from game developers of shipped commercial games and, to a minor extent, from academia. Topics covered include AI architectures, steering and path finding, tactics/strategy, genre-specific techniques, gesture recognition, and learning techniques. The book acts as a toolbox of techniques that can be applied to many common...

"A manual for both designers and users, comprehensively presenting the current state of experts' knowledge on virtual reality (VR) in computer science, mechanics, optics, acoustics, physiology, psychology, ergonomics, ethics, and related area. Designed as a reference design guide to help the reader develop a VR project, it presents the importance of the users needs and various aspects of the human computer interface (HCI). It further treats technical...

Now that Apple has introduced the GameKit framework to its iOS SDK, you can integrate Game Center features directly into your iPhone and iPad apps. This concise cookbook shows you how it's done, with 18 targeted recipes for adding leaderboards, user authentication, achievements, multiplayer games, and many other features. How do you display players' scores and achievements? How do you create Game Center accounts and add friends? Each recipe in this...