{"product_id":"swift-game-programming-for-absolute-beginners-paperback","title":"Swift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArjan Egges\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Concepts of game programming are explained well, and no prior knowledge of Swift language programming is required. ... The images and audio provided are professional and clean.\" William Fahle, \u003ci\u003eComputing Review\u003c\/i\u003e, May 31, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners\u003c\/em\u003e teaches Apple's Swift language in the context of four, fun and colorful games. Learn the Swift 2.0 language, and learn to create game apps for iOS at the same time - a double win! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four games you'll develop while reading this book are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePainter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTut's Tomb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenguin Pairs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTick Tick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThese four games are casual, arcade-style games representing the aim-and-shoot, casual, puzzle, and platform styles of game play. Professionally developed game assets form part of the book download. You'll get professionally drawn sprites and imagery that'll have you proud to show your learning to friends and family.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe approach in \u003cem\u003eSwift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners\u003c\/em\u003e follows the structure of a game rather than the syntax of a language. You'll learn to create game worlds, manage game objects and game states, define levels for players to pass through, implement animations based upon realistic physics, and much more. Along the way you'll learn the language, but always in the context of fun and games. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwift is Apple's new programming language introduced in 2014 to replace Objective-C as \u003cem\u003ethe \u003c\/em\u003emain programming language for iOS devices and Mac OS X. Swift is a \u003cem\u003emust learn\u003c\/em\u003e language for anyone targeting Apple devices, and \u003cem\u003eSwift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners\u003c\/em\u003e provides the most fun you'll ever have in stepping over the threshold toward eventual mastery of the language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArjan Egges is an associate professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is responsible there for research in the area of computer animation, and he heads the university s motion capture lab in the animation department. Arjan has written over 30 research papers on animation. He is the founder of the highly successful, annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion in Games, of which the proceedings have been published by Springer-Verlag. Arjan is responsible for having designed Utrecht University s computer animation course offerings in the Game and Media Technology master s program, and he is currently the leader of that master s program. In 2011 he designed the introductory programming course for the university s bachelor s degree offering in Game Technology. He is coauthor of the book Learn C# by Programming Games, published in 2013 by Springer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117700223111,"sku":"9781484206515","price":48.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3d54f201b060d672a3d27f2b3ad4e6e9.webp?v=1732526839","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/swift-game-programming-for-absolute-beginners-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}