Pixel Art for Game Developers

Author: Daniel Silber
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482252317
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Is the art for your video game taking too long to create? Learning to create Pixel Art may be the answer to your development troubles. Uncover the secrets to creating stunning graphics with Pixel Art for Game Developers. The premier how-to book on Pixel Art and Pixel Art software, it focuses on the universal principles of the craft.The book provide

FF DOT: The Pixel Art of Final Fantasy

Author: Square Enix
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506735061
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
A hardcover volume that showcases the intriguing evolution of pixel art from the Final Fantasy series! Containing detailed sprite sheets that showcase the pixel composition of Final Fantasy's beloved characters, maps of Final Fantasy's most popular highlighting tools used by the developers, and a special interview with Kazuko Shibuya, the character pixel artist for the Final Fantasy series, FF Dot is a one of a kind product that immerses readers into an iconic aspect of the Final Fantasy experience. Dark Horse Books is proud to collaborate with Square Enix to bring fans FF Dot: The Pixel Art of Final Fantasy, translated into English for the first time. This localization of the original Japanese publication holds nearly 300 pages of colorful pixel art, and is an invaluable addition to any Final Fantasy fan's collection.

Make Your Own Pixel Art

Author: Jennifer Dawe
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 159327887X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Make Your Own Pixel Art is a complete, illustrated introduction to the creation of pixel art aimed at beginners just starting out right through to the experienced pixel artist wanting to enhance their skills. Hand anyone a pencil and paper and they can start drawing, but it's just as easy to draw digitally using a keyboard and mouse. With Make Your Own Pixel Art, pixel artist Jennifer Dawe and game designer Matthew Humphries walk you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors, shading, and how to turn your art into animation. By the end of the book, you'll be creating art far beyond what's possible on paper! Make Your Own Pixel Art will teach you about: - Creating pixel art using the most popular art software and the common tools they provide - Drawing with pixels, including sculpting, shading, texture, and color use - The basics of motion and how to animate your pixel art creations - Best practices for saving, sharing, sketching, and adding emotion to your art With a dash of creativity and the help of Make Your Own Pixel Art, your digital drawings can be brought to life, shared with the world, and form a basis for a career in art, design, or the video games industry.

The Art of Game Design

Author: Jesse Schell
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351803638
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 935

Book Description
The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible, and award-winning author Jesse Schell presents over 100 sets of questions to ask yourself as you build, play and change your game until you finalise your design. This latest third edition includes examples from new VR and AR platforms as well as from modern games such as Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us, Free to Play games, hybrid games, transformational games, and more. Whatever your role in video game development an understanding of the principles of game design will make you better at what you do. For over 10 years this book has provided inspiration and guidance to budding and experienced game designers - helping to make better games faster.

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Author: Jason Schreier
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062651242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it's nothing short of miraculous. Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart. Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development hell—and ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.

Pixel Art Sketchbook 64x64 Grid

Author: Made By Sophie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781790597741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
Perfect book to sharpen your pixel design skills! This is a 64x64 grid page notebook, designed and produced by a 25 year game industry veteran, to help video game programmers, designers, and illustrators create 2D pixel art for video games. Create sprites for your favorite game development platform or vintage and retro systems. The book is subdivided into smaller 8x8 sections to help you design pixel art for profession video games and other media. Book Features Beautiful matte cover design 64x64 Grid subdivided into 16x16 sections Create 64 8x8 sprite frames per page Create up to 16 32x32 sprite frames per page 6" x 9" book size is ideal take with you anywhere Lined note section to jot down color and other data Drawing space under grid to sketch out ideas

Sprite Artist's Sketchbook

Author: Away with The Pixels
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781706193630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
This large 8 x 10" sprite artist's sketchbook contains a 64 x 64 pixel grid for you do draft and design your sprite characters. This book is the ideal gift for pixel artists, game designers, indie game devs and anyone who enjoys pixel art. The grid is divided into 8 x 8 squares if you want to create smaller characters. There is also a space for notes on each page, so you can jot down ideas about the sprites and characters you are creating. This book contains: 100 pages with 64 x 64 pixel grid Space for notes on each page Large 8 x 10" size We have lots of other sketchbooks for game designers and pixel artists!

The Game Maker's Level Design Sketchbook

Author: Away with The Pixels
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781706348511
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
This large 8 x 10" game level design sketchbook contains a grid for you to sketch out level designs and a space to make notes. This book is the ideal gift for pixel artists, game designers, indie game devs and anyone who enjoys pixel art. This book contains: 100 pages with a pixel grid for sketching Space for notes on each page Large 8 x 10" size We have lots of other sketchbooks for game designers and pixel artists!

The Game Maker's Level Design Sketchbook

Author: Away with The Pixels
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781706147893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

PX 64x64

Author: 2k.design
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978347083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Pixel art 64px X 64px gridded sketchbook, sketchpad and drawing pad for professional pixel art character designers, indie video game developers, digital artists, and enthusiast pixel art creators. Create awesome pixel art sprites in the style of art made for retro video game consoles like: Atari 2600, Nintendo NES, Nintendo Super NES (SNES), Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Game Boy Color, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Sega Mega Drive, and Sega Genesis. Book features: 64px X 64px pixel art grids 40 pages x 1 grid per page (for a total of 40 64px X 64px grids) Final Fantasy II (FF2) and Final Fantasy III (FF3) sprite character body guides Single-sided grid pages Vibrant blue-colored grid designs optimal for easy digital reproduction Book size: 8.5" x 8.5" Printed on high quality color paper Pixel art cheat sheet found in front of book (these tips include: pixel art straight lines, curved lines, common sprite sizes, sprite directions, sprite animation sequences, simple tonal dithering, complex pattern dithering, and pixel-perfect circles) This pixel art sketchbook is part of a series of professional pixel art drawing books that focus on common pixel art grid sizes. For other pixel grid sizes, search Amazon or Google for "pixel art sketchbook."