Construct game development [[electronic resource] ] : beginner's guide : a guide to escalate beginners to intermediate game creators through teaching practical game creation using Scirra Construct / / Daven Bigelow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462447403321
• Autore: Bigelow Daven
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Olton, Birmingham [England], : Packt Pub., 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-67661-2; 9786613653543; 1-84951-661-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Learn by doing : less theory, more results
• Disciplina: 794.81536
• Soggetti: Computer games - Programming; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Our First Look at Construct; The first step: downloading and installing Construct Classic; Time for action - getting Construct Classic up and running; Step two: creating a game project; Time for action - starting a game project; Creating the project; Changing the project details; Running the project; Step three: navigating the interface of Construct Classic; Time for action - clicking our way around Construct Classic; The layout editor; The properties box; The event editor; The animator boxThe layers box; The final step: an introduction to objects; Time for action - creating some objects; Creating an object; Drawing the sprite; Changing the appearance of the sprite; Summary; Chapter 2: Hello World! Construct Style; Sprites revisited; Time for action - creating a player sprite; Creating new animations; Animation tags; Choosing the Collisions mode; Tiled backgrounds: defining the world; Time for action - make some tiled backgrounds; Attributes: telling Construct more about our objects; Time for action - adding attributes to our objects; Behaviors: teaching objects how to actTime for action - getting our player moving; The behaviors; Setting controls; Variables: private and global; Time for action - giving our player a life; Textboxes: giving the player a heads-up; Time for action - showing our player their health and score; Events: setting the rules and goals of a game; Time for action - very eventful games; The sprites; Events; Conditions; Actions; Summary; Chapter 3: Adding the Challenge; Before we start; Reaching the goal; Time for action - making the game winnable; Overlapping versus collision; Set activated; Set animationAvoid the hazards; Time for action - bestowing more challenges on a player; The death of a player; Resurrecting our player; Giving the player a game over; Putting some bad guys in; Time for action - adding an enemy and making him move; Direction of motion; Falling down; Turning around; Looking for a hit; Improving our interface; Time for action - creating a background for the GUI; Summary; Chapter 4: Making Noise; A game and its music; Time for action - add some music to our game; The start of layout condition; Playing the music file; Looping the music file; Modules of music; Time for action - play some mod musicThe Is playing condition; Loading and playing the file; Sounds: describing the action; Time for action - adding sounds; Exporting our game; Time for action - exporting our game; A note on sharing our games; Summary; Chapter 5: Practical Physics; Creating physical objects; Time for action - creating our objects; The Global property; Aligning to a grid; Setting the Physics properties; The Timer behavior; Creating a custom physics collision mask; Event sheets and groups; Time for action - creating and using Event sheets and groups; Adding a physical force; Time for action - creating forces
• Sommario/riassunto: A guide to escalate beginners to intermediate game creators through teaching practical game creation using Scirra construct with this book and ebook.

Locating imagination in popular culture : Place, tourism and belonging. / / Nicky van Es

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831831903321
• Autore: van Es Nicky
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2020
• ISBN: 9781000223873; 1000223876
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies.
• Classificazione: SOC022000
• Soggetti: Nonfiction; Sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined, and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which people's favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives conveyed through media in stimulating and reflecting desire in tourism. This book will have appeal in a wide variety of academic disciplines, ranging from media and cultural studies to fan- and tourism studies, cultural geography, literary studies and cultural sociology.