Product Description: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express in 24 Hours is a 24-part book that teaches you how to design, build, and execute fully functional 2D and 3D video games on both personal computers and the Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express (GSE)is a new free offering, targeted at students and hobbyists for game development...read more

A guide to creating game characters covers such topics as modeling, texturing, mesh optimization, mapping, and animation.

Product Description: Xbox Hackz and Modz is an all-in-one ultimate Xbox user?s and hacker?s guide which can be used by all readers, from beginning Xbox users with no technical know-how, to advanced programmers and hackers. Chapter-by-chapter details provide in-depth information on installing, using, and hacking the Xbox hardware, as well as details on making simple to extreme hardware and software modifications to expand the abilities of the Xbox...read more

Product Description: A perfect and direct starting point for a beginner game texture artist! "The Dark Side of Game Texturing" is also an excellent reference for intermediate artists, or for those who want to further their digital art skills. Learn how to create game textures similar to the eerie, sinister, and ominous textures seen in great video games like Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There are many 2D and 3D books in the market that focus entirely upon the beginning to advanced usage of one particular program. This book encompasses the world of 2D and 3D software and game artwork techniques in one volume. 2D Artwork and 3D Modeling for Game Artists will focus on 3 programs, Photoshop, trueSpace and 3D Studio Max...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)