3D Game Programming All in One 1st Edition

by Kenneth C Finney (Author)

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An ever-growing number of gamers want to make the leap from merely playing games to actually creating their own games. This book takes them through the process step-by-step. It provides the instruction, examples, development principles, and, perhaps most importantly, the actual tools needed to create their own 3D game. By experiencing first-hand every aspect of game development, readers will discover which aspect of the game industry is their true passion (for example, music, artistic design, storyboarding, coding, testing, etc.). This is the only book that walks the reader from A to Z covering each aspect of developing a 3D game in a hands-on tutorial style.

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This book and the companion CD contain all of the tools and information necessary to create a complete ready-to-play first person shooter game. Functions as a stand-alone book or 'the next step' for readers of Game Programming All in One (1931841233), which takes the reader through each step of the creation of a full 2D game. Provides thorough explanation of 3D game programming, an emerging market within gaming. The CD is a treasure chest of tools and resources for independent game developers, including a fully featured game engine; tools for modeling, sound and text editing, and image manipulation; sound, image, and music libraries.

About the Author

Kenneth C. Finney teaches in the Game Development and Entrepreneurship program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, where he runs the Game Development Workshop. Ken has taught game design, level and GUI design, game development, programming, and prototyping at the Art Institute of Toronto where he was lead faculty member in the Game Art & Design program for five years. Ken is the creator of the popular TubettiWorld "Online Campaign" Mod and the "QuicknDirty" game management tools for NovaLogic's Delta Force 2 game series. In addition to being an associate developer of the Torque Game Engine at GarageGames, Ken is the author of several books about game programming including 3D Game Programming All In One, 1st & 2nd Editions and Advanced 3D Game Programming All In One. Ken is 50% owner of TubettiWorld Games, Inc. (TWG), an Ontario-based company that is creating a new and unique Action/Adventure game based on the original TubettiWorld design, using Torque Game Engine Advanced. The team that Finney has assembled at TWG was responsible for delivering a 3D action racing game for a major U.S. toy manufacturer in 2008.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cengage Learning PTR; 1st edition (April 19, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 800 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159200136X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592001361
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.25 x 7.25 x 9 inches

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Ken Finney teaches Game Design, Level and GUI Design, Game Development, Programming and Prototyping at the Art Institute of Toronto where he is Lead Faculty Member in the Game Art & Design program, and Graphics Design for Game Artists and XNA programming at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Ken is the creator of the popular TubettiWorld "Online Campaign" Mod and the "QuicknDirty" game management tools for Novalogic's Delta Force 2 game series. In addition to being an Associate Developer of the Torque Game Engine at GarageGames, Ken is the author of several books about game programming including 3D Game Programming All In One, 2nd Edition and Advanced 3D Game Programming All In One. Ken is 50% owner of TubettiWorld Games, Inc. (TWG), an Ontario-based company that is creating a new and unique Action/Adventure game based on the original TubettiWorld design, using Torque Game Engine Advanced. The team that Finney has assembled at TWG was responsible for delivering a 3D action racing game for a major U.S. toy manufacturer in the Spring of 2008. TWG is GarageGames' world-wide provider of Torque training for commercial customers.

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Steven M. Wall

It's a good start, but needs some work

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2005

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Overall, I believe this book does a decent job of teaching you how someone else designed a game with the torque engine. In fact, that's probably what it should have been titled, "Case Study: Torque Engine". The book outlines the major concepts of building a 3D game with the torque engine, but if you really want to learn 3D programming, I would get a different book. The code in the book is somewhat hit & miss, too many bugs for my taste. I would have expected an editor or someone to try and run the scripts contained in the book. Most of them require some kind of debugging, and since most of the coding is done in TextPad or UltraEdit, i'm sure you can appreciate how frustrating it is to debug.

If you're looking for a good overall picture of how to create & organize a 3D game engine, then this book will probably work for you. (just don't count on code always working) If you're like me and want a little more comprehension, I would look around for an alternative.

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MikalC

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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018

very good

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2004

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If you are aspiring to learn TGE, the Torque Game Engine from [...] then buy this book right this moment! It's well written, and covers the most awesome game development tool there is: Torque.
My only gripe is that it's super-specialized to the particular tools on the CD. For example there is 14 pages on "Ultraedit 32", a Windows programmer's editor. And Milkshape is used instead of Blender for character modeling. But, OTO that's one of the nice aspects of the book it's "All in One". Like the swiss-army-knife of game development.

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Maraspin Stefano

3D Game Programming All in One is a Misleading Title...

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2004

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Book isn't actually written badly. I was completely mislead by its Title, though; It's a book on Torque (and maybe video game "design"), definitely not a book on Game Programming. I was expecting something (much?) more from it ("Look Inside" wasn't available at the time of my purchase, so title mislead me). It turned out as a disappointment.

PROS:
Quick & smooth to read
Comprehensive - from a game design point of view (at the end you can come up with some game)
Easy, even for Beginners

CONS:
Too Specific to the Torque Game Engine (the word Torque is actually repeated infinitely through the book; really, you'll get bored of reading it ...after page 2)
Game programming fundamentals (transformations, math), theory (graphic pipeline) and libraries (DirectX and OpenGL) aren't covered at all.
It's for REAL Beginners (it even teaches you how to use Paint Shop Pro and other tools which can be, in my opinion, easily self-thaught)
Repetitive sometimes

OVERALL:
As the heading says, calling this book 3D Game Programming All in One is misleading, whereas "Creating Games From Scratch w/ the Torque Engine" could have been a much more suitable title. Go ahead and get it if you're a real beginner and you're interested in learning how to make a game from scratch, just from the designer/"product manager" (but NOT the programmer) point of view. You'll be taught some TORQUE, Paint Shop Pro, Ultraedit 32, Milkshape and other tools/game design issues, to make a complete game; even if not in depth, a bit of everything is covered.

It's not the book for you though, if you already know something about programming and especially if you expect to learn (like I did) some real-time rendering and game engine theory. For that matter, I can suggest you to get both "Real Time Rendering" by Akenine-Moller & Haines (more theoretical) and OpenGL Game Programming by Hawkins & Astle (more practical. There also you end up with a working game, but you really get a grasp on how things work under the hood... definitely something you don't with this reviewed book).

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N. Paul

Could be much better

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2004

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Does anyone notice that this book is rather boring. I started off excited to learn something, but that wore off when I was forced to read page after page of code. The author never explained why there are certain files, or even what files are neccessary.

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shyam

Great Book... but....

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2005

This is an awesome, and essential, book if you plan on doing development with the Torque Game Engine (TGE). I had purchased my Indie Developer license (...) before discovering this book. The codebase for TGE is so huge (hundreds of files, thousands of classes, 100's of thousand lines of code). The online tutorials and Garage Game DOCs weren't really enough, I felt, to get started. So, I bought this book to get me started.

I will admit, the title of this book is a bit misleading. It does cover most aspects of 3d Game Programming (coding, textures, 3d modeling, sound, level design), but it is mostly dependent (except the artsy topics) on the TGE. Someone not expecting to work with TGE will be disappointed as all the code in the book is written in TorqueScript, not C++.

Another thing I will say about this book: The beginner-intermediate rating is a bit untrue. I would gear this book more towards the intermediate level. The 'introduction to programming' chapter is a good start, but really doesn't prepare an unexperienced programmer to the concepts of inheritance, scoping, program flow, among others, covered in the book.

Final Conclusion: Buy this book if you are working with TGE. Even if you're an experience TGE user, the references (function/class listings, etc) are extremely valuable. If you are not a TGE user, you should give a good look at it, as it is a great tool for an indie developer (...). If you're working on making your own engine from scratch, this book probably won't help you too much (there are probably better books on texture creation, 3d model creation, and sound that you could pick up instead... along with an actual 'engine development' book in C++).

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DI J. Jahn

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Reviewed in Germany on February 8, 2009

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Gute Einfuehrung in die Torque Game Engine (TGE) und Torque-Script. Ist fuer TGEA nur bedingt brauchbar, aber fuer Einsteiger mit Programmierkenntnissen ein gutes Buch um mit dieser Engine vertraut zu werden.

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