If you are someone who loves to play games and are interested in learning more about the capabilities of your Raspberry Pi, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Raspberry Pi programming is expected.

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Program games utilizing the Scratch language
Install multiple operating systems
Set up your Raspberry Pi computer
Install and configure game system emulators
Control your Minecraft world with the Python programming language
Explore different kinds of joysticks, controllers, game pads, and other input devices
Install applications in Linux

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Frostic7734 Dec 09, 2018

I was expecting to receive a book to teach me game programming on a Raspberry Pi. The majority of the book is dedicated to teaching you how to set up a Pi and use it as an emulator. There is nothing in this book about game design. There is only one chapter on game programming.I was hoping this book contained stuff about programming in C or Python and include code examples and perhaps lessons. The book has one chapter on MIT's Scratch programming language. It is an educational language meant as an introduction to programming for elementary school kids. If you are smart enough to read this book then Scratch is probably too rudimentary for you.I should have done more research before dropping money on this book. This book feels like just fluff and filler. It feels like a cash grab. I would recommend buying a different book if you want to learn about the Pi or Pi programming.

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Romin K. Irani Apr 17, 2015

The book is compact in size and what I liked about it is that it can also act as a one-stop to get your Pi setup, install the software you want to, set it up with gaming software and then even hardware. From that perspective, I was surprised and pleased to see the range of the topics that this book had. You could even zoom into the topics separately if you wanted to.The book starts off with introduction to the Pi, setting it up with the standard operating system and then zooming a bit in Scratch, which should be the most popular tool being used to teach programming to kids.Once you are done with that, the book zeroes in to special Gaming operating systems for the Pi, which you do have a choice to skip if you want. The next set of chapters focus on Emulators, Games that have been ported specifically for the Pi and Linux Games. It was a joy to get Doom (I played it after 20 years and for someone as old as me, I still love that game!) working on the Pi and then Open Arena too. Yes, Minecraft is there too. For the price of a Pi, getting Minecraft running on it is going to give endless hours of fun , especially if you have kids around. They’ll love it.The book goes one step further and gets you going with getting game controllers (hardware) setup on the Pi too. I believe it would be interesting to get these hardware to work with other applications on the Pi, like some Robotics or Gaming Console projects.Overall, this book did expose me to a lot more that could run on the Raspberry Pi. If you are looking at pushing the limits of the Pi as a gaming device only, this is your book to explore.

Chris Garrett Mar 05, 2015

I bought a pi version 2 especially to use for classic game emulation and this book taught me everything I needed to get started

BBatt Feb 26, 2015

Excellent book, well written and loaded with helpful information.

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