Franz Lanzinger is an independent game developer, author, and pianist. He is the owner of Lanzinger Studio located in Sunnyvale California. His game development career spans almost forty years starting with the coin-op classic Crystal Castles at Atari in 1983, continuing with Ms. Pacman and Toobin' for the NES, published by Tengen in 1990.

Mr. Lanzinger has been an indie game developer since 1991. He worked on SNES Rampart, Championship Pool, and NCAA Final Four Basketball, as well as Gubble for the PC, Mac, and PlayStation. This is Franz's third book about game development. He is currently working on a remaster of Gubble. In his spare time, he is the piano accompanist for the Valley Chorale and the Serendipity Choir. Go to [...] for the latest news about Franz as well as resources for his books.

Part I Basics of 3D Game Development

Chapter 1 ¿ Software Tools

Chapter 2 ¿ A 3D Game

Chapter 3 ¿ 3D

Chapter 4 ¿ Designing a 3D Remake

Chapter 5 ¿ 3D Dottima Character

Chapter 6 ¿ Blender Modeling and Animation

Chapter 7 ¿ More Art Assets

Chapter 8 ¿ First Playable

Chapter 9 ¿ Game Structure

Chapter 10 ¿ More Game Objects and a Large Level

Chapter 11 ¿ Sound and Music

Chapter 12 ¿ GUI and Cutscenes

Chapter 13 ¿ Testing and Debugging

Chapter 14 ¿ Input

Chapter 15 ¿ Preparing DotGame3D for Release

Part II A 3D Adventure

Chapter 16 ¿ FPS, etc.

Chapter 17 ¿ Worldbuilding

Chapter 18 ¿ Character Controller

Chapter 19 ¿ First Playable

Chapter 20 ¿ A 3D Puzzle Room 3

Chapter 21 ¿ Shaders and Lighting in Unity

Chapter 22 ¿ Physics

Chapter 23 ¿ Sound and Music, Part 2

Chapter 24 ¿ Releasing FPSAdventure?

Chapter 25 ¿ Epilogue

APPENDIX I: THE C# CODING STANDARD FOR THIS BOOK

APPENDIX II: GAME DEVELOPMENT CHECKLIST