There is a fundamental flaw in most game development books, which is the assumption that the reader knows nothing about the subject. This results in a painful reiteration of the most basic lessons of programming, inevitably beginning with the ubiquitous “Hello World” example. Such rudimentary information is available for every programming language on the internet, and the basics can be learned with a couple of hours of study.

David Brackeen does not make this error in his game development book, Developing Games in Java. And yet this is not an intermediate level book. It is too approachable, too detailed and too exciting not to appeal to the beginner. Brackeen simply does not waste space covering rudimentary topics such as how to turn the computer on, or with a section that explains: “What is Java?”.

What Brackeen does explain is that: “this book isn't really about making Java games – it's about making games that happen to be written in Java”. The practises and principles of game design thereafter explained make this book a must-have for any game designer of any level of experience.

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