As some of my readers are interested in how to get started in the game development business I thought I would pass this along. A college and university game development professor (John Flynt) and a programmer who taught himself to program at 11 years of age (Brandon Booth) have collaborated on a new book – Unreal Tournament Game Programming for Teens. The text is described as follows:
Unreal Tournament Game Programming for Teens provides you with a structured but entertaining way to learn how to develop your own simple computer games using Unreal Tournament. It addresses the fundamentals of computer programming by allowing you to work with UnrealScript and the Unreal Level Editor. You’ll begin with programming basics and will then quickly progress to creating elementary events and games within the modification framework provided by Unreal Tournament. This book does not involve actual game play with Unreal Tournament, but rather focuses on how to derive classes from the classes in the Unreal Tournament class hierarchy, how to use features of the Unreal Level Editor, and how to work with the syntax of UnrealScript. Using the skills you develop as you work through the book, you can begin exploring how to program a number of events characteristic of Unreal Tournament.
The paperback version of the text is available here on Amazon.com for $20.39 as at the time of this writing. Two similar books are: Game Programming for Teens (2005) and Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens (2004).
Sources: Gamasutra | GameCareerGuide.com | Amazon.com
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