Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by douche on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:05PM (#13661536)

Two decent ones for game development:

https://howtomakeanrpg.com/

Walks through building a JRPG-style game with Lua. Pretty impressive for the price, especially with all the royalty-free assets that are included.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Programming_an_RTS_Game...

A little dated now, (although DirectX 9 isn't quite dead yet), but this one has some pretty interesting topics. Good chapter on procedural terrain generation, some basic pathfinding, minimaps and fog-of-war.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by makufiru on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:01AM (#13669145)

Thanks for sharing! I'm just getting into games and these look really helpful.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by throwaway7645 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:02PM (#13662066)

Lua and RPGs? Bookmarked!

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