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3DMotive – Blender For Game Artists Volume 1

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3DMotive – Blender For Game Artists Volume 1
English | Size: 644 MB
Category: TUTORIALS


In this course, instructor Alan Thorn is going to be giving a comprehensive introduction to Blender for Game Artists. Here, Alan will show you how to get up and running in Blender for creating animated in-game models even if youÆre a complete newbie! In the earlier volumes, you will be learning a range of topics that include: Blender (and 3d software) basics, primitive creation, 3D space coordinates, loading in reference material, and basic mesh manipulation. While near the end of the course, youÆll start to feel like a game art pro as you begin to learn and understand the concepts of UV unwrapping, asset rigging for animation, animation creation, mesh exporting, and game integration. [Read more…]

Digital Tutors – Designing Mobile Games with a Game Design Document

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Digital Tutors – Designing Mobile Games with a Game Design Document
English | Size: 334 MB
Category: Digital Tutors


Throughout these lessons weÆll learn how to design a mobile game while writing a game design document (GDD). Developing mobile games is difficult and there are many factors to consider. A properly written GDD is the first step in professional and hobbyist development.
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Cubebrush – Zbrush for Hard Surface Design

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Cubebrush – Zbrush for Hard Surface Design
English | Size: 2,6 GB
Category:TUTORIALS


I​n this Master Lesson, instructor Tom Paul goes through and explain the entire process of creating a hard surface robot head design for video games or films.

​This lesson will be done in ZBrush, Keyshot and Photoshop and will cover all the steps from the initial blockout in ZBrush to the rendering and final compositing. [Read more…]

Packtpub – Building Games with Scratch 2.0

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Packtpub – Building Games with Scratch 2.0
English | Size: 459 MB
Category: TUTORIALS


Packt video courses are designed to cover the breadth of the topic in short, hands-on, task-based videos. Each course is divided into short manageable sections, so you can watch the whole thing or jump to the bit you need. The focus is on practical instructions and screencasts showing you how to get the job done. A comprehensive and easy-to-understand set of videos that demonstrate the best practices of game development and designing by showing you how to create five engaging games using Scratch 2.0. Whether you are new to programming and want a gentle introduction to programming, an educator who is interested in teaching with Scratch 2.0, or someone who wants to make and share fun games and animations, this course is for you. This video tutorial provides you with careful, step-by-step instructions that will unlock the power of your imagination. [Read more…]

Udemy – The Complete iOS Game Course – Build a Flappy Bird Clone (2014) [348MP4, 1RTF, 1ZIP]

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Udemy – The Complete iOS Game Course – Build a Flappy Bird Clone (2014) [348MP4, 1RTF, 1ZIP]
English | Size: 7.51 GB
Category: Apple


We built an immersive game development course that teaches you all of the fundamentals so you can build your own games on iPhones and iPads. We combine videos, notes, collaborative discussion forums, and challenging assignments to have students build real apps. Teaching online is not new to us. Our highly successful Beginner iOS Bootcamp (over 18k students and 5 star review) teaches students the basics of programming iOS apps. We use the same proven pedagogy to teach game development.
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Hack & Slash RPG – A Unity3D Game Engine Tutorial

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Hack & Slash RPG – A Unity3D Game Engine Tutorial
English | Size: 22.31 GB
Category: Misc Learning


Description

Hack & Slash is a Unity3d tutorial series with focus on creating a basic, but playable RPG style game. We will start with a few basic scripts to get use to C# scripting, but then gradually go deeper into the language as we learn such topics as Object Oriented Programming (OOP).

At the end of this basic set of tutorials, we will have a decent solo playable rpg style of game that can be played on the web with Unity3D’s web player, or as a stand alone version.
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3DMotive – Creating a Puzzle Game in Unity Volume 5

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3DMotive – Creating a Puzzle Game in Unity Volume 5
English | Size: 1,71 GB
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In this 5 part course, instructor Alan Thorn takes you through the process of building a 3D puzzle game inside of the Unity engine. Here he will cover a range of topics including project creation, level design, lightmapping, skinning, animation state machines, collision detection, and camera creation just to name a few. [Read more…]

SkillFeed – Video Game Development with Unity 3D

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SkillFeed – Video Game Development with Unity 3D
English | Size: 3,63 GB
Category: TUTORIALS


Unity 3D is game development software used by many professional game developers, and has been the driving force behind many popular games. In this course, you will learn everything you need to become a professional game developer using free Unity 3D software. Whether you want to make a living as a game developer, or would just like to make games for fun, this comprehensive course is for you.
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Digital Tutors – Animating In-Game Biped Characters in Maya 2014

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Digital Tutors – Animating In-Game Biped Characters in Maya 2014
English | Size: 1,29 GB
Category: Digital Tutors


Throughout these lessons we’ll learn how to animate in-game locomotion animations for biped characters. We’ll look at the mechanics of using Maya 2014 as a sketching tool for designing the animations.

Functions we’ll address are the graph editor, key frames, in-betweens and breakdowns as well as basic functionality of animation layers. Animations we’ll focus on include idle, run, jump, attack, hit-reaction, death, celebration and deselect-idle animations. By the end of this tutorial you will have a deeper understanding of how to animate an in-game biped character using Maya. [Read more…]