Packt Game Development and Animation: Books

An essential resource for hands-on game design and animation courses

The Pact Game Development & Animation: Books collection includes over 100 software-focused titles providing hands-on guidance. Up to date and coherent in scope, it provides in-depth, practical knowledge essential for students of video game design and digital animation.

Through real-world case studies and creative workflows, explore how AI is transforming content creation, storytelling, design, and creative production. The collection is specially designed to help instructors prepare stuDiscover detailed guidance on major game development and animation software, including graphics rendering, animation, physics simulation, scripting, and artificial intelligence.

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Features practice-led titles that are a must-have for students of game design, animation, gaming, interactive media, computer science and related fields

Provides superb software-focused and hands-on content from Packt Publishing for using software to create games

Includes the latest features and techniques, expert author-led insights, professional best practice, most effective tips, and hacks

Offers guidance on an expansive range of topics covering major game development and animation software - including Graphics Rendering, Animation, Physics Simulation, Scripting and Artificial Intelligence

Spans game technology tools from shaders and effects to architecture, coding and motion graphics - all core components of game design

Titles include

Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics by Henk Venter and Wilhelm Ogterop
Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming by Davide Aversa
Godot Engine Game Development Projects by Chris Bradfield
Up and Running with Affinity Designer by Kevin House
OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook by David Wolff

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Packt Game Development and Animation: Videos

Packt Game Development & Animation: Videos

Featuring over 20 video tutorials on how to turn your game ideas into playable experiences, the Video collection is fully cross-searchable with the Books collection and is subscription-sensitive. They are available separately but appear together on the Packt Game Development & Animation page where institutions have access to both.

Packt Game Development & Animation: Videos

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