Start Your Engines: Developing Driving & Racing Games: Developing Driving and Racing Games Book

Start Your Engines: Developing Driving and Racing Games is a unique book that will teach readers everything they need to set up different types of road conditions, create opponents, set up road hazards, generate weather conditions, manage collisions, and much more. Not only will readers end up with the knowledge and tools they need to create driving and racing games, they will get a full-featured playable racing game that they can expand and customize with the skills learned in the book The book shows readers how to develop live-action interactive driving and racing games with a unique three-tired approach. In Tier 1, readers will learn how to build a model for a racing game and then apply the physics to create a simple 2D (flat) game, while learning how to create a variety of vehicles, race opponents, and terrain. In Tier 2, readers learn how to go from 2D to 3D with the same game concepts and how to take the same basic idea for a game (and game play) and use modeling tips and tricks to begin customizing features. In Tier 3, the author takes the concepts of 3D driving games to Mars with data modeled from real Mars terrain. Readers will create a dune buggy race on Mars and learn to create cool racing action at a bizarre and treacherous location.Read More