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Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner’s Guide Review

Great amount of information for working with Unreal scripting! I am a beginner to Unreal scripting, and had not realized how involved it could be. This book helps you with setting up everything you need to get started, installing the UDK and external programs for script editing/compiling, and setting up a project. The book appears …

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Xna 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner’s Guide – Visual Basic Edition Review

Great book for beginners to game programming! The book is aimed towards beginners starting out in game programming. Visual basic is one of the easier languages to get started in, and XNA is a well known game framework, so it is an excellent place for beginners to start. The book starts out with an introduction …

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Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook Review

Great cookbook for Cocos2d game developers, and useful for general game development. If you’ve had some experience with development in Objective C on the iphone, and want to learn how to develop games, this is a great cookbook. The book starts with an introduction to graphics, animated sprites, and OpenGL, but delves quickly into more …

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Flash Development for Android Cookbook Review

This is an awesome book to bring your Flash games and programs to Android! This book provides you with everything you need to start developing programs and games on android using Adobe AIR, assuming you already have some knowledge in ActionScript. It shows short “recipes” on how to interface with everything that you would want …

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CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook Review

I have been developing web sites and web applications for several years now, but have been wanting to try out a PHP development framework to take care of not having to program lower level functionality, which would also let me develop applications in much less time. CakePHP is a php, rapid development framework, and the …

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Review of Flash Game Development by Example (Author: Emanuele Feronato)

When I found out the author of the largest Flash game development blog had written a book, I was very eager to pick it up and try it out. (his announcement on his blog HERE) Emanuele’s blog has been around for many years, and he has great information from starting out in actionscript and beginning …

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