We have been working on several major projects at Burtons Media Group. We thought we would take a moment and provide an update on the individual status of the projects:
Amazon Lumberyard Game Development Fundamentals: Space Explorer
The textbook is mostly complete with the exception of the final chapter where we cover visual scripting. We are semi-patiently awaiting the release of Lumberyard 1.10. This update promises to be a major one with the inclusion of Script Canvas, Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting toolset. Expect to see the release of this textbook and associated on-demand video course soon after the 1.10 release.
Corona Development On-Demand Course
The on-demand course is in active development with completely new and updated videos and content. While based upon our Learning Mobile Application & Game Development and Beginning Mobile App Development textbooks, we are adding additional lessons to make this a great value above and beyond the textbooks. We will be providing a discount if you previously purchased one of the Corona Textbooks.
Work continues on the isometric game development book. We will be using the Million Tile Engine plugin to handle much of the heavy lifting and focus on the isometric game development process in this textbook.
Learning Lua
Lua seems to be at the center of every project that we develop. While it was not intentional, it has definitely become the “need to know” scripting language at BMG. To that end, we have started developing a textbook and on-demand course content on Lua that will cover everything from the basics through using Lua for Machine Learning (Torch) and implementing Lua as a part of an engine.
Burton Institute of Technology
We at Burtons Media Group were recently asked when we would begin to provide on-demand training for Lumberyard, Corona, and Lua. In the past, we have focused on digital-print (i.e. pdf and ePub) plus making games.
As we surveyed the landscape (and with Dr. Burton’s extensive knowledge of online learning) we have decided to begin actively developing online certificate courses. Production has already begun and you can expect to see BIT courses via the BurtonsMediaGroup.com website in the very near future.