The Game Makers Apprentice or Magic Lantern Guides

The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Design for Beginners

Author: Jacob Habgood

The Game Maker's Apprentice shows you how to 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. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play.

Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl.

The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so you'll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes a CD containing 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 that you can use in your own games.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Welcome to Game Maker	3
Ch. 2	Your first game : devilishly easy	9
Ch. 3	More actions : a galaxy of possibilities	41
Ch. 4	Target the player : it's fun being squished	65
Ch. 5	Game design : interactive challenges	85
Ch. 6	Inheriting events : mother of pearl	101
Ch. 7	Maze games : more cute things in peril	127
Ch. 8	Game design : levels and features	149
Ch. 9	Cooperative games : flying planes	169
Ch. 10	Competitive games : playing fair with tanks	191
Ch. 11	Game design : balance in multiplayer games	211
Ch. 12	GML : become a programmer	225
Ch. 13	Clever computers : playing tic-tac-toe	245
Ch. 14	Intelligent behavior : animating the dead	259
Ch. 15	Final words	291

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Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D70

Author: Simon Stafford

Digital SLRs are the hottest cameras on the market, and Nikon’s interchangeable lens, D70, is one of the best, delivering superb image quality at an excellent price. Make the most of its many capabilities with this guide to all the fundamentals, plus information not even covered in the camera’s instruction manual. With the Magic Lantern at hand, photographers at all levels will find it extremely easy to master the exclusive selection of new features that distinguish this revolutionary model, and to work with digital technology. From handling the lenses to coordinating the camera with the computer, from taking a basic picture to understanding different file formats and resolution, it’s all here.