2D Game Building for Teens [With CDROM]

by Michael Duggan

Bring your video game ideas to life with 2D Game Building for Teens Written for anyone with an interest in creating video games, this book will show you how to use the Torque Game Builder, a simple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598635689
• ISBN13: 9781598635683
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Good tutorial

"2D Game Building for Teens" provides an introduction to the Torque Game Builder (TGB) engine by assembling a simple game chapter by chapter. It has a good overview of game design and of the game industry in general. On the negative side, the source code for the game is not provided in electronic form in the CD or online, so it has to be typed. The online TGB documentation has tutorials with identical games, but this is the only book in print regarding TGB. Like other reviewers mention, the printed code has many parts that it's just plain wrong, and there is a lot of repeated code that just fills space without providing any further insight into it. By adding insult to injury the author mentions at least 3 or 4 times that "if the code does not work, double check if you did any typing errors" ! Still, I believe the other reviewers one star ratings are a bit harsh just because of the code errors. I give it four stars, since the book covers the building of the game with the TGB editor in a good instructional way.