Game development

game development This category page features the latest and most popular technology books for game development. Learn to code and build games using engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot. The books cover topics from C++, C#, and visual scripting to multiplayer networking, VR development, and more. Whether you're a beginner looking to get started or a seasoned developer wanting to level up your skills, these game dev books have something for you.

Bestsellers

A range of our top selling data products from the last year

Learning Design Patterns with Unity

May 2024 676 pages

4.8 (30)

eBook

$35.99

Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting

Aug 2023 384 pages

4.3 (27)

eBook

$39.99

Hands-On Unity Game Development

Jan 2024 742 pages

4.8 (25)

eBook

$38.99

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity

Nov 2022 466 pages

4.4 (47)

eBook

$35.99

Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition

Jun 2022 302 pages

4.5 (30)

eBook

$23.99

Learning GDScript by Developing a Game with Godot 4

May 2024 378 pages

4.9 (9)

eBook

$35.99

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5

May 2022 568 pages

4 (32)

eBook

$61.99

Godot 4 Game Development Projects

Aug 2023 264 pages

4 (24)

eBook

$35.99

Beginning C++ Game Programming

May 2024 648 pages

4.5 (23)

eBook

$39.99

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook

Sep 2018 472 pages

3.6 (9)

eBook

$39.99

What's New

Our latest data releases from the last few months.

Realizing 3D Animation in Blender

Jul 2024 456 pages

5 (7)

eBook

$39.99

Learning Design Patterns with Unity

May 2024 676 pages

4.8 (30)

eBook

$35.99

Unity 2022 by Example

Jun 2024 596 pages

4.9 (8)

eBook

$39.99

Beginning C++ Game Programming

May 2024 648 pages

4.5 (23)

eBook

$39.99

Mastering Unity Game Development with C#

Jul 2024 356 pages

4.8 (10)

eBook

$31.99

The Most Popular in Game Development

Learning Design Patterns with Unity

Struggling to write maintainable and clean code for your Unity games? Look no further! Learning Design Patterns with Unity empowers you to harness the fullest potential of popular design patterns while building exciting Unity projects. Through hands-on game development, you'll master creational patterns like Prototype to efficiently spawn enemies and delve into behavioral patterns like Observer to create reactive game mechanics. As you progress, you'll also identify the negative impacts of bad architectural decisions and understand how to overcome them with simple but effective practices. By the end of this Unity 2023 book, the way you develop Unity games will change. You'll emerge not just as a more skilled Unity developer, but as a well-rounded software engineer equipped with industry-leading design patterns.

Harrison Ferrone

Paperback May 2024 676

$44.99

Audience Favourites

Our most rated game development products by our Customers.

Mathematics for Game Programming and Computer Graphics

Nov 2022 444 pages

4.9 (12)

eBook

$43.99

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity

Nov 2022 466 pages

4.4 (47)

eBook

$35.99

Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan

Feb 2023 382 pages

4.4 (38)

eBook

$35.99

Blender 3D Incredible Machines

Feb 2016 392 pages

4.4 (19)

eBook

$48.99

Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5

Jan 2024 254 pages

4.5 (17)

eBook

$31.99

Godot 4 Game Development Projects

Aug 2023 264 pages

4 (24)

eBook

$35.99

Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles

Oct 2023 394 pages

4.5 (15)

eBook

$39.99

Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022

Nov 2023 566 pages

5 (17)

eBook

$47.99

Become a Unity Shaders Guru

Jul 2023 492 pages

4.9 (20)

eBook

$35.99

XR Development with Unity

Nov 2023 284 pages

4.8 (22)

eBook

$29.99

Quick Learns

Our game development books which are under 200 pages long.

Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

Feb 2015 140 pages

4.3 (4)

eBook

$16.99

Gamesalad Essentials

Jan 2015 154 pages

3 (1)

eBook

$16.99

Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development

Jan 2015 188 pages

3.9 (11)

eBook

$19.99

Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

Mar 2016 188 pages

2.6 (12)

eBook

$29.99

Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide

Nov 2018 176 pages

4 (3)

eBook

$25.99

Blender Quick Start Guide

Sep 2018 194 pages

1.7 (7)

eBook

$25.99

Unreal Engine Virtual Reality Quick Start Guide

Feb 2019 178 pages

3.7 (3)

eBook

$22.99

Haxe Game Development Essentials

Nov 2015 188 pages

3.5 (2)

eBook

$21.99

Gamemaker Essentials

Mar 2015 154 pages

3.8 (13)

eBook

$21.99

Cocos2d Game Development Essentials

Jan 2015 136 pages

4.5 (2)

eBook

$19.99

Beginner's Corner

Our top picks for starting your game development journey.

Unity Game Development Blueprints

Nov 2014 318 pages

4 (6)

eBook

$28.99

Mastering Unity 2D game development

Aug 2014 474 pages

3.8 (21)

eBook

$36.99

Learning AndEngine

Sep 2014 286 pages

4.8 (6)

eBook

$25.99

HTML5 Game Development Hotshot

Jul 2014 366 pages

4 (6)

eBook

$28.99

Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

Sep 2014 266 pages

3 (1)

eBook

$28.99

Construct 2 Game Development by Example

Jun 2014 230 pages

3.8 (9)

eBook

$28.99

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Second Edition

Dec 2013 394 pages

4 (12)

eBook

$36.99

Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Dec 2013 320 pages

3.9 (15)

eBook

$28.99

Unity Multiplayer Games

Dec 2013 242 pages

3.6 (11)

eBook

$28.99

Learning Windows 8 Game Development

Oct 2013 244 pages

4.1 (8)

eBook

$32.99

Current Year Titles

2024 Essentials

Cinematic Photoreal Environments in Unreal Engine 5

May 2024 548 pages

4.9 (14)

eBook

$43.99

Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5

Jan 2024 254 pages

4.5 (17)

eBook

$31.99

Learning Design Patterns with Unity

May 2024 676 pages

4.8 (30)

eBook

$35.99

.NET MAUI Projects

Feb 2024 630 pages

4.5 (11)

eBook

$41.99

Sculpting in ZBrush Made Simple

Mar 2024 508 pages

5 (20)

eBook

$47.99

Unity 2022 by Example

Jun 2024 596 pages

4.9 (8)

eBook

$39.99

Learning GDScript by Developing a Game with Godot 4

May 2024 378 pages

4.9 (9)

eBook

$35.99

Beginning C++ Game Programming

May 2024 648 pages

4.5 (23)

eBook

$39.99

The Modern Vulkan Cookbook

Apr 2024 334 pages

4.5 (11)

eBook

$39.99

Mastering Unity Game Development with C#

Jul 2024 356 pages

4.8 (10)

eBook

$31.99

Express Tutorials

Learn core game development skills and be productive within two hours.

Adobe After Effects CC for Beginners: Learn After Effects CC

Jun 2018 1hr 36mins

Video

$99.99

Getting Started with Adobe After Effects CC 2019

Jan 2020 1hr 32mins

Video

$137.99

Unreal Engine 5 - Environment Design

Aug 2022 1hr 11mins

Video

$19.99

Learning the GameMaker Studio 2 Interface

May 2017 1hr 53mins

Video

$137.99

Popular Authors (10)

Dr. Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Instant Heat Maps in R How-to

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Ben Auffarth

Ben Auffarth is a full-stack data scientist with more than 15 years of work experience. With a background and Ph.D. in computational and cognitive neuroscience, he has designed and conducted wet lab experiments on cell cultures, analyzed experiments with terabytes of data, run brain models on IBM supercomputers with up to 64k cores, built production systems processing hundreds and thousands of transactions per day, and trained language models on a large corpus of text documents. He co-founded and is the former president of Data Science Speakers, London.

Most popular book of Ben Auffarth

Artificial Intelligence with Python Cookbook

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Greg Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.

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Learn Power BI

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Stefan Jansen

Stefan is the founder and CEO of Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing end-to-end machine learning solutions for a broad range of business problems.nnBefore his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm, where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He was also a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets, advised Central Banks in emerging markets, and consulted for the World Bank.nnHe holds Master's degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin, and a CFA Charter. He has worked in six languages across Europe, Asia, and the Americas and taught data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.

Most popular book of Stefan Jansen

Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

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Augmented AI

At Augmented AI, they are pioneers in AI education, providing state-of-the-art courses that integrate technologies such as Generative AI, LLMs (Large Language Models), robotics, drones, and edge AI. They aim to democratize access to these advanced technologies, empowering both individuals and organizations to succeed in the fast-paced AI landscape. They engage over 114K subscribers on YouTube and keep their 43K LinkedIn followers updated on the latest in AI.

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Full YOLOv4 Pro Course Bundle

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Ms. Maaike van Putten

Maaike is a software consultant and trainer with a passion for sharing her expertise to empower others in their careers. Her love for software development shows in the numerous software development projects she participated in and the many certifications she obtained. She has designed and delivered a broad spectrum of training courses catering to beginners and seasoned developers in Java, Python, C# and many other languages and frameworks. Next to that, she has authored multiple books and online courses through multiple platforms reaching over 500,000 learners across the globe.

Most popular book of Ms. Maaike van Putten

JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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Yeshwanth Reddy

Yeshwanth Reddy is a highly accomplished data scientist manager with 9+ years of experience in deep learning and document analysis. He has made significant contributions to the field, including building software for end-to-end document digitization, resulting in substantial cost savings. Yeshwanth's expertise extends to developing modules in OCR, word detection, and synthetic document generation. His groundbreaking work has been recognized through multiple patents. He has also created a few Python libraries. With a passion for disrupting unsupervised and self-supervised learning, Yeshwanth is dedicated to reducing reliance on manual annotation and driving innovative solutions in the field of data science.

Most popular book of Yeshwanth Reddy

Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch

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Savaş Yıldırım

Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.

Most popular book of Savaş Yıldırım

Mastering Transformers

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Bradley Schacht

Bradley Schacht is a principal program manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, Florida. Bradley is a former consultant and trainer and has co-authored five books on SQL Server and Power BI. As a member of the Microsoft Fabric product team, Bradley works directly with customers to solve some of their most complex data problems and helps shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. Bradley gives back to the community by speaking at events, such as the PASS Summit, SQL Saturday, Code Camp, and user groups across the country, including locally at the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). He is a contributor on SQLServerCentral and blogs on his personal site, BradleySchacht.

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Joseph Howse

Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.

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OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents

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