Classic Game Design

You too can learn to design and develop classic arcade video games like Pong, Pacman, Space Invaders, and Galaxian. Collision detection, extra lives, power ups, and countless other essential design elements were invented by the mostly anonymous designers at the early pioneering companies that produced these simple games. In this book youll go step by step, using modern, free software tools such as Unity3D to create clones of five classic games: Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, Galaxian, and Pacman. All the source code and art sources of the clone versions are freely available on the companion DVD or at the books Web site. Youll discover the fun of making your own games, putting in your own 4-color graphics, adjusting the scoring, coding the AI, and playing with sound effects. Youll gain a deep understanding of the roots of modern video game design: the classics of the seventies and eighties. It features: uses five Unity3D projects to allow for quick experimentation with classic game concepts

Whether you want to make a classic platformer like Super Mario Bros. or a physics based game like Angry Birds, the following training videos will have you  ... 7 Mar 2019 ... Every time a game designer contemplates what a customer might ... Collecting resources and badges are the classic game examples of this.