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Author:   Jaken Chandler Herman
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781484250723

ISBN 10:   1484250729
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   26 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Environment Setup and Introduction to the Engine   Chapter Goal: This chapter will walk the reader through the process of downloading and installing the correct required components necessary to create their game. Subtopics: ·         Downloading, Installing, and Setting up Lumberyard ·         Other needed components outside of the Lumberyard engine   Chapter 2:  Learning to Navigate the Engine Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on introducing the reader how to navigate the Amazon Lumberyard engine, keyboard shortcuts, pane navigation, and other terminology. Subtopics: ·         Pane Navigation ·         Useful hotkeys ·         Terminology of Engine-related topics   Chapter 3: Creating your first Project Chapter Goal: This chapter will teach the user how to create a project, decide which default project setting they would like to start out with, as well as detail the differences between projects and levels. Sub Topics : ·         Projects and the myriad of default project settings ·         Projects & Levels : What’s the difference?   Chapter 4: Terrain Development Chapter Goal: Now that the reader has a project and a level created, their character will need some terrain to interact with. This chapter will focus on how to generate terrain. This will be a long chapter. Sub - Topics: ·         Heightmaps ·         Mega Textures and Textures ·         Vegetation ·         Detailing ·         Time of Day & Sun Patterns   Chapter 5: Entities and Slices Chapter Goal: This chapter will walk the reader through the creation of a player, buildings, roads, and all other various props that will go in their video game. This chapter will discuss how to create child entities within others and how to create re-usable entities, known as slices. Sub - Topics: ·         Entities ·         Child Entities ·         Slices   Chapter 6: Components Chapter Goal: This chapter will walk the reader through the component editor. This is an important chapter because it introduces meshes, colliders, weather, simple physics and other necessary elements to the entities the reader created in Chapter 5. Sub - Topics: ·         Meshes ·         Colliders ·         Weather   Chapter 7: Creating the Enemy Chapter Goal: This chapter will show the reader how to create the enemy of the game, describe how the enemy will interact with the player, and how the reader can duplicate this enemy. Sub Topics: ·        Your First Enemy ·        Introduction to Enemy Artificial Intelligence ·        Cloning the Enemy   Chapter 8: Scripting and Physics Chapter Goal: This chapter will walk the reader through editing lua scripts to have characters, enemy characters, and gameplay do their bidding. Sub Topics: ·         Gravity ·         Lua Scripting Introduction   Chapter 9: Polishing Chapter Goal: This chapter will detail how the reader can add some spice to their game. This will go over how to add particles, other light sources, sounds, and other polishing features to their levels. Sub - Topics: ·         Light Sources ·         Particles ·         Sounds   Chapter 10: Setting up a User Interface Chapter Goal: Game Over! Without seeing these two words at the end of the game, was it really a game at all? This chapter will go over how to create a user interface, so the reader can create a start menu, as well as a “game over” - or “mission complete” screen. Sub-Topics: ·         User Interfaces o   Start Menu o   Game Over ·         Heads-up Display   Chapter 11: Exporting the Game Chapter Goal: This chapter will show the reader how to export their game to an executable to share with friends and family – or many even to sell it. Sub-Topics: ·        Compiling your game for release ·        Where and how to distribute your game

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Jaken Herman is a software engineer living in Texas. Jaken holds a bachelor of science in computer science with a focus on software engineering from Sam Houston State University. Outside of university, Jaken worked as a software engineering contractor at NASA. He has worked with many different and new technologies and has an ever-expanding wealth of information on all topics related to programming. In game development, he has academic experience as well as hands-on hobbyist experience having created many mobile-based games, a side-scrolling platformer, and a racing game.

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