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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Everything you want to know about Game AI using Blueprints or C++

By: Francesco Sapio

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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Everything you want to know about Game AI using Blueprints or C++

By: Francesco Sapio

Unreal Engine is a powerful game development engine that provides rich functionalities to create 2D and 3D games. If you want to use AI to extend the play-life of your games and make them more challenging and fun, this book is for you. It will help you break down AI into simple concepts to give you a fundamental understanding of each of the topics.

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1788831640

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Unity UI Cookbook

By: Francesco Sapio

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Unity UI Cookbook

By: Francesco Sapio

Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive About This Book Design and develop interactive and professional user interfaces (UIs) for games in Unity Discover how to implement and deal with various in-game UI elements that will impress your players This practical recipe guide will help you to efficiently create powerful and remarkable UIs using C# code Who This Book Is For If you are a game developer with some experience in Unity and C# and want to create the best interactive experience fast and intuitively, then this book is for you. If you are an intermediate game developer or an expert, these recipes will help you bring out the power of the new UI Unity system. What You Will Learn Implement different kinds of counters and healthbars Deal with timers and find out how to format them Animate and vivify UI elements Handle runtime customizations Add complex Head-up displays (HUDs) Design and implement 3D UIs Integrate minimaps in the UI In Detail With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it with C# scripts, it's possible to realize the potential of this system and bring an impressive UI to games. This guide is an invaluable collection of recipes if you are planning to use Unity to develop a game. Starting with the basic concepts of the UI components, we'll take you all the way through to creating complex interfaces by including animations and dynamics elements. Based on real-world problems, these recipes will start by showing you how to make common UI elements such as counters and healthbars. You will then get a walkthrough of how to manage time using timers, and will learn how to format them. You will move on to decorating and animating the UI elements to vivify them and give them a professional touch. Furthermore, you will be guided into the 3D UI world and into HUD scripting. Finally, you will discover how to implement complex minimaps in the interface. Style and approach Interactive, easy-to-follow recipes will help you create and implement UIs that make gaming an exhilarating experience.

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1785882007

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9781785882005

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio,Abdelrahman Saher

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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio,Abdelrahman Saher

Explore the features of Unity 5 for 2D game development by building three amazing game projects About This Book Explore the 2D architecture of Unity 5, and the tools and techniques for developing 2D games Discover how to use Unity's 2D tools, including Sprites, physics, and maps, to create different genres of games Practical tutorial on the intermediate and advanced development concepts in Unity 5 to create three interesting and fully functional games Who This Book Is For If you've got the basics of 2D development down, push your skills with the projects in this hands-on guide.Diversify your portfolio and learn the skills needed to build a range of awesome 2D game genres. What You Will Learn Explore and understand the vital role of sprites in 2D games Move, animate, and integrate sprites into a 2D platform game Set up User Interfaces (UIs) to keep track of the progress through the games Apply 2D Physics to improve gameplay believability Learn the foundation of Level Design and how to quickly create 2D Maps Discover NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming Create an epic strategy game, challenging all the skills acquired in the book In Detail Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leverage these new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book. Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development. Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming. Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills. Style and approach This is a practical and easy-to-follow guide that starts with the basics and gradually delves into the process of creating 2D games. With step-by-step instructions on how to build three games, followed by a detailed explanation of each example, you will understand the concepts not just in theory, but also by applying the knowledge you gain in practice.

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1784396532

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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

By: Francesco Sapio

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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

By: Francesco Sapio

Build a tower defense game and earn delectable C# treats by baking cupcakes and fighting fearsome sweet-toothed pandas About This Book Build a complete and exciting 2D Tower Defense game from scratch. Understand and learn to perform each phase of the game development pipeline Homework and exercises to improve your skills and take them to the next level Who This Book Is For If you are looking forward to get started with 2D game development, either if you are a newcomer to this world, or you came from 3D games or other game engines, this book is for you. Although there are many references to other resources throughout the book, it is assumed that you have a general understanding of C# and its syntax and structure. What You Will Learn Import and set up assets for 2D game development Design and implement dynamic and responsive User Interfaces Create and handle complex animation systems Unlock all the potentiality of the physics engine Implement Artificial Intelligence algorithms to give intelligence to your NPCs Script gameplay and overall bring your ideas to life In Detail Want to get started in the world of 2D game development with Unity? This book will take your hand and guide you through this amazing journey to let you know exactly what you need to build the games you want to build, without sacrificing quality. You will build a solid understanding of Unity 5.x, by focusing with the embedded tools to develop 2D games. In learning about these, along with accurate explanations and practical examples, you will design, develop, learn how to market and publish a delectable Tower Defense game about cupcakes versus pandas. Each chapter in this book is structured to give you a full understanding on a specific aspect of the workflow pipeline. Each of these aspects are essential for developing games in Unity. In a step-by-step approach, you will learn about each of the following phases: Game Design, Asset Importing, Scripting, User Interfaces, Animations, Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Gameplay Programming, Polishing and Improving, Marketing, Publishing and much more. This book provides you with exercises and homework at the end of each chapter so that you can level up your skills as a Unity game developer. In addition, each of these parts are centered on a common point of discussion with other learners just like you. Therefore, by sharing your ideas with other people you will not only develop your skills but you will also build a network. Style and approach This is a fun step-by-step approach in the whole pipeline of 2D game development in Unity, which is explained in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. Each topic is explained sequentially, allowing you to experience both basics and advanced features of Unity. By doing this, the book is able to provide you with a solid grasp on each of the topics. In this way, by engaging with the book's content, exploring the additional references to further readings and completing the homework sections, you are able to challenge yourself and apply what you know in a variety of ways. Once you have finished reading this book, you will be well on your way to developing games from start to finish!

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1784393290

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Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian

By: Francesco Gardani

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Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian

By: Francesco Gardani

In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.

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BRILL

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9004244654

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9789004244658

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

By: Francesco Landolfi

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Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

By: Francesco Landolfi

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000623483

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Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the ‘Historia Philosophica’

Volume I: From Its Origins in the Renaissance to the `Historia Philosophica'

By: Francesco Bottin,Giovanni Santinello

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Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the ‘Historia Philosophica’

Volume I: From Its Origins in the Renaissance to the `Historia Philosophica'

By: Francesco Bottin,Giovanni Santinello

This volume grew out of a conference held at the Warburg Institute of London in June 1989 in memory of Charles B. Schmitt. The topic, one to which he had given much thought, was the ways knowledge changed from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, in terms of how it was classified, how it was transformed in science, philosophy and theology, and how it was institutionalized and how it was distributed. Contributions by an international group of scholars, Grazia Tonelli, Claire J. Farago, Charles Lohr, Allison Coudert, Nicholas Jardine, Lynn S. Joy, Robert Black, Susanna Akerman, Michael Hunter, and Jeremy D. Popkin treat different aspects of the topic. The editors, Donald R. Kelley and Richard H. Popkin have added an introduction and an epilogue.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0792322002

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9780792322009

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Everything you want to know about Game AI using Blueprints or C++

By: Francesco Sapio

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Everything you want to know about Game AI using Blueprints or C++

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Unity UI Cookbook

By: Francesco Sapio

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Unity UI Cookbook

By: Francesco Sapio

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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio,Abdelrahman Saher

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Unity 2017 2D Game Development Projects

Create Three Interactive and Engaging 2D Games with Unity 2017

By: Lauren S. Ferro,Francesco Sapio

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Unity 2017 2D Game Development Projects

Create Three Interactive and Engaging 2D Games with Unity 2017

By: Lauren S. Ferro,Francesco Sapio

Build classic arcade, shooter and platform games with Unity 2D toolset Key Features Leverage the amazing new functionalities of the latest Unity 2017 2D toolkit. Learn to create 2D characters, animations, fast and efficient game play experiences while keeping your games very lightweight Create engaging games that enable you to perform intergalactic warfare and also fun games similar to temple run and so on. Book Description 2D games are everywhere! Timeless and popular, 2D games represent a substantial segment of the games market. The Unity engine has revolutionized the gaming industry, by making it easier for game developers to create quality games on a budget. If you are looking for a guide to create 2D games using Unity 2017, look no further. With this book, you will learn all the essentials of 2D game development by creating three epic games in a step-by-step manner throughout the course of this book. The first game will have you collecting as many cakes as possible. The second will transport you to outer space to traverse as far as possible while avoiding enemy spaceships. The last game will have you running and jumping across platforms to collect coins and other exotic items. Throughout all these three games, you will create characters, make them move, and create some enemies. And then, of course, write code to destroy them!. After showing you the necessities of creating a game, this book will then help you to porting the game to a mobile platform, and provide a path to publish it on the stores. By the end of this book, you will not only have created three complete great games, but be able to apply your knowledge to create and deploy your own games. What you will learn Work with Unity 2017's new 2D workflow and create a 2D scene Set the scene with different types of backgrounds, either static or dynamically using a tileset Bring your character to life through simple animations Understand the core concepts of programming by creating basic code that controls a character and destroys an enemy Create buttons and game controls by using code snippets for input detection Develop three 2D games from genres such as classic arcade, space shooter, and platformer games Add audio and feedback and deploy your games Who this book is for If you are interested in creating your very own 2D games from scratch, then this book will give you all the tools you need to succeed. No C# knowledge is required, all you need is basic coding and scripting knowledge. Whether you are completely new to Unity or have used Unity before and would like to learn about the new 2D features of Unity, this book is for you.

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Book's by Francesco Sapio

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Unity UI Cookbook

Unity UI Cookbook

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the ‘Historia Philosophica’

Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the ‘Historia Philosophica’

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Unity UI Cookbook

Unity UI Cookbook

Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

Unity 2017 2D Game Development Projects

Unity 2017 2D Game Development Projects

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