Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development


Book Description

Create stunning 3D multiplayer games with integrated cloud-based features About This Book Build a multiplayer 3D game from scratch using the features of Amazon's Lumberyard Explore the world of Lumberyard along with Twitch and various key Amazon Web Services to build a game This step-by-step practical guide will teach you how to build cross-platform games using Lumberyard Who This Book Is For The book caters for those who have an interest or desire to create their own games, either as a hobbyist or to enhance their skills as a professional games developer. The book requires previous knowledge of software development. Experience with C++ will also be beneficial. What You Will Learn Explore Lumberyard's graphical user interface Create stunning game worlds Use Geppetto editor to create 3D characters Create and animate game characters using Lumberyard's toolset Create impressive gameplay to add multiplayer functionality to your game Debug and play your 3D game Add multiplayer functionality to your game using Amazon GameLift Integrate with Amazon cloud services to support cloud computing and storage Engage your users during gameplay with Twitch In Detail Amazon's Lumberyard is a 3D cross-platform game development engine for building high-quality AAA games. It makes the process of creating multi-player games and adding realistic characters, stunning terrains, and special effects much faster and more efficient. This book will show you how to use Lumberyard to create a multiplayer 3D game with cloud computing, storage, and Twitch integration for user engagement. We will start with an introduction to Lumberyard and provide an overview of its capabilities and integration options. Once the game engine is installed, we'll guide you through the creation of an immersive game world with characters. You'll add animations and audio to bring the game to life. We'll explore external interactions to support live multiplayer game play, data storage, user engagement, and the back end. By the end of the book, you will be efficient in building cross-platform games using Lumberyard. Style and approach This step-by-step tutorial is filled with practical examples that will introduce you to the game engine's interface, as well as setting up your development environment.




Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development


Book Description

Create stunning 3D multiplayer games with integrated cloud-based features About This Book Build a multiplayer 3D game from scratch using the features of Amazon's Lumberyard Explore the world of Lumberyard along with Twitch and various key Amazon Web Services to build a game This step-by-step practical guide will teach you how to build cross-platform games using Lumberyard Who This Book Is For The book caters for those who have an interest or desire to create their own games, either as a hobbyist or to enhance their skills as a professional games developer. The book requires previous knowledge of software development. Experience with C++ will also be beneficial. What You Will Learn Explore Lumberyard's graphical user interface Create stunning game worlds Use Geppetto editor to create 3D characters Create and animate game characters using Lumberyard's toolset Create impressive gameplay to add multiplayer functionality to your game Debug and play your 3D game Add multiplayer functionality to your game using Amazon GameLift Integrate with Amazon cloud services to support cloud computing and storage Engage your users during gameplay with Twitch In Detail Amazon's Lumberyard is a 3D cross-platform game development engine for building high-quality AAA games. It makes the process of creating multi-player games and adding realistic characters, stunning terrains, and special effects much faster and more efficient. This book will show you how to use Lumberyard to create a multiplayer 3D game with cloud computing, storage, and Twitch integration for user engagement. We will start with an introduction to Lumberyard and provide an overview of its capabilities and integration options. Once the game engine is installed, we'll guide you through the creation of an immersive game world with characters. You'll add animations and audio to bring the game to life. We'll explore external interactions to support live multiplayer game play, data storage, user engagement, and the back end. By the end of the book, you will be efficient in building cross-platform games using Lumberyard. Style and approach This step-by-step tutorial is filled with practical examples that will introduce you to the game engine's interface, as well as setting up your development environment.




Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development


Book Description

Create stunning 3D multiplayer games with integrated cloud-based featuresAbout This Book- Build a multiplayer 3D game from scratch using the features of Amazon's Lumberyard- Explore the world of Lumberyard along with Twitch and various key Amazon Web Services to build a game- This step-by-step practical guide will teach you how to build cross-platform games using LumberyardWho This Book Is ForThe book caters for those who have an interest or desire to create their own games, either as a hobbyist or to enhance their skills as a professional games developer. The book requires previous knowledge of software development. Experience with C++ will also be beneficial. What You Will Learn- Explore Lumberyard's graphical user interface- Create stunning game worlds- Use Geppetto editor to create 3D characters- Create and animate game characters using Lumberyard's toolset- Create impressive gameplay to add multiplayer functionality to your game- Debug and play your 3D game- Add multiplayer functionality to your game using Amazon GameLift- Integrate with Amazon cloud services to support cloud computing and storage- Engage your users during gameplay with TwitchIn DetailAmazon's Lumberyard is a 3D cross-platform game development engine for building high-quality AAA games. It makes the process of creating multi-player games and adding realistic characters, stunning terrains, and special effects much faster and more efficient.This book will show you how to use Lumberyard to create a multiplayer 3D game with cloud computing, storage, and Twitch integration for user engagement. We will start with an introduction to Lumberyard and provide an overview of its capabilities and integration options. Once the game engine is installed, we'll guide you through the creation of an immersive game world with characters. You'll add animations and audio to bring the game to life. We'll explore external interactions to support live multiplayer game play, data storage, user engagement, and the back end.By the end of the book, you will be efficient in building cross-platform games using Lumberyard.Style and approachThis step-by-step tutorial is filled with practical examples that will introduce you to the game engine's interface, as well as setting up your development environment.




Getting Started with Unity 2018


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The Unity game engine has revolutionized the gaming industry with its complete set of intuitive tools.. This book will guide you through the entire process of creating a 3D VR game, from downloading the Unity game engine to publishing your game. It not only gives you a strong foundation, but puts you on the path to game development.




Serious Games in Personalized Learning


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Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing, and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisition of information and knowledge that a student may gain through playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary research, frameworks, and models centered on the design and delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning experience. Scholars of educational technology, instructional design, human performance, and more will find a comprehensive guide to the history, practical implications, and data-collection potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools.




AWS


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STRUGGLING TO COME TO GRIPS WITH CLOUD TECHNOLOGY? Amazon Web Services offer on-demand cloud services created with customer satisfaction in mind. AWS is one of the best cloud services out there, but starting the tech can be tricky if you don't have the right guide. This book was written exactly for anyone wanting to use cloud systems in their place of work, for the first time. It's one of the only books on the market that holds your hand and guides you step by step to setting up Amazon Web Services for yourself. You won't get this quality of cloud computing information anywhere else! It gets straight to the point allowing you get finished with setting up the ground-breaking technology FASTER. No hype! No fuss! Just pure value! This amazing book will cover: > Fundamentals of cloud computing; > Basic terminologies for the AWS cloud platform; > Cloud computing security (VERY IMPORTANT for businesses!); > Basics of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS cloud computing services; > Cloud computing development models; > Mobile Services with AWS Amplify, Pinpoint and AWS AppSync; > Network and Content Delivery; > Developer tools such as AWS Code Commit and AWS X-Ray; > Management tools such as Cloud Formation and AWS control tower; > Using managed Blockchain for Amazon Quantum Ledger Databases (QLDB); > Security, Identity and compliance; > Business applications such as Alexa, Amazon Chime and Toll (video conferencing); > Cost Management (Often Overlooked!); > Desktop and App streaming; > Which one is better? Artificial intelligence or Machine Learning?; > Game Dev (Fantastic for Indie Developers!); > Internet of things (IOT); > And so much more! Finally, you will be able to effectively utilise the resource that is AWS cloud services, in record time and you'll have fun along the way!




Student Engagement and Participation: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


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The delivery of quality education to students relies heavily on the actions of an institution’s administrative staff. Effective teaching strategies allow for the continued progress of modern educational initiatives. Student Engagement and Participation: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides comprehensive research perspectives on the multi-faceted issues of student engagement and involvement within the education sector. Including innovative studies on learning environments, self-regulation, and classroom management, this multi-volume book is an ideal source for educators, professionals, school administrators, researchers, and practitioners in the field of education.




Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud


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Today, many businesses and corporations are moving their on premises IT Infrastructure to the Cloud. There are numerous advantages to do doing so, including on-demand service, scalability, and fixed pricing. As a result, the Cloud has become a popular target of cyber-based attacks. Although an ISP is often charged with keeping virtual infrastructure secure, it is not safe to assume this. Back-up measures must be taken. This book explains how to guard against cyber-attacks by adding another layer of protection to the most valuable data in the Cloud: customer information and trade secrets.




Doing Things with Games


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The book provides a contemporary foundation in designing social impact games. It is structured in 3 parts: understanding, application, and implementation. The book serves as a guide to designing social impact games, particularly focused on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It serves as a guide for people looking to create social impact play, informed by heuristics in game design. Key Features Provides contemporary guide on the use of games to create social impact for beginner to intermediate practitioners o Provides design and implementation strategies for social impact games Provides wide ranging case studies in social impact games Provides professional advice from multiple social impact industry practitioners via sidebar interviews, quotes, and postmortems Provides a quick start guide on creating a variety of social impact engagements across a wide variety of subjects and aims




Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard


Book Description

Create stunning 3D games in a short amount of time using Amazon Lumberyard, a free and exciting game development platform. This book is a ground-up, out-of-the-box tutorial on 3D game development and programming with Lua and Amazon Lumberyard with little or no game development experience required. Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard walks you through the user interface of the Amazon Lumberyard engine; teaches you how to develop detailed terrain using heightmaps, megatextures, weather, and vegetation; and takes you through exporting the game for distribution. The book will show you how to create a player as well as enemies while not getting bogged down with third-party tools for animation or model creation. You will also work with simple physics, colliders, meshes, weather generation, Lua scripting, user interface development, and much more. By the end of the book, you will be able to create many different types of video games using the Amazon Lumberyard engine and even have a completed project ready to release or put in your portfolio. What You Will Learn Discover the mechanics and terminology of game developmentFamiliarize yourself with the Amazon Lumberyard game engine in detailModify game scripts using the Lua languageDiscover how to optimally structure game layers Who This Book is For Developers, programmers, and would-be game designers who have long wanted to dip their toes into the world of game development but have found other game engines and platforms to have too high a barrier to entry.