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Buildbox 2.x Game Development

By : Ty Audronis
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Buildbox 2.x Game Development

By: Ty Audronis

Overview of this book

Buildbox is an “any skill level” development platform to develop video games with no coding experience. It also exports these games to be compiled for any platform (from Windows to Mac to iOS to Android and Blackberry) all using the same graphic user interface. Using an example as a tutorial, we will relate the driving principles and you’ll see how you can implement these principles to develop any games on the platform. We begin by setting expectations and providing a brief overview of the software. But it’s not long before you “dive in” to creating your first video game. You will actually have a playable level (“world”) by the end of the second chapter. Later on, you’ll learn everything from basic graphics creation to advanced world design while you refine your first game, called “Ramblin’ Rover.” All along the way, you will see how certain functions could be used in tandem to create other types of games; hoping to spark imagination. We will follow the principles and process of monetization through ads and in-game rewards. Lastly, we will go through the process of exporting, compiling, and preparing your storefront to sell the games you will eventually create.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Buildbox 2.x Game Development
Credits
Disclaimer
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewer

Nik Rudenko has more than 15 years of game development experience. He originally started his career as a 3D artist, but quickly found himself being drawn to the technical aspect of making games. After earning degrees in both graphical design and computer programming, Nik merged his knowledge of graphic concepts and coding to master the art of game development.

While he was working on AAA games such as Overlord, Pirates of The Caribbean, and Show Time Boxing, he always had the dream of one day building his own game engine. Nik wanted to create an engine that could help art designers that didn’t know how to code, make games.

After multiple successful game projects for iPhone and Android, he moved to America from the Ukraine where he started working on his dream project—Buildbox.

I would like to thank my father, who was a Ukrainian teacher. He instilled the important values of education, hard work, sacrifice, and family. He saw my passion for computers and used all of his savings to buy a modern PC for me, and that very first CD disk with 3D Graphics Software was a major turning point in my life.