Game Expert Spills the Secrets of 3-D Game Creation;
Makes Available an Incredible WinG-Based Engine

March 31, 1995--Scottsdale, AZ--Have you always wanted to create awesome
3-D games so realistic that the bad guys are practically in your face, and
you can almost reach out and touch your surroundings? In Amazing 3-D Games
Adventure Set, expert game developer Lary Myers tells all, giving you the
secrets to master 3-D game creation, and even supplying you with his
incredible 3-D game engine. The game engine, ACK-3D, is used worldwide by
leading software companies to create commercial games and other 3-D
applications. It incorporates powerful ray-casting technology and
lightning-fast animation, and provides all of the essentials for building
dynamic 3-D worlds from the ground up.

Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set gives you more than 600 pages of insight,
insider secrets, and tips for creating multiple levels of adventure,
textured floors and ceilings, movable walls, secret and sliding doors,
realistic-looking stationary objects, and animated objects that bring your
games to life. You'll master light shading, ray casting, and game design
techniques, and you'll even discover how to exploit the power of
Microsoft's new ultra-fast, 32-bit WinG. This is the first and only book
that shows game developers and Windows programmers how to master WinG.
You'll take the 3-D game market by storm!

"WinG," explains Lary Myers, "makes it possible to create special types of
bitmaps, access them directly, and blast them onto the screen to create
faster and smoother animation than possible in the past using the standard
graphics functions provided with Windows."

"This is an incredible, hands-on construction kit for anyone who wants to
turn their game fantasies into realistic 3-D adventures," stated Keith
Weiskamp, publisher of Coriolis Group Books and former flight simulator
designer with NASA. "The best part about the 3-D engine provided is that
it makes it especially easy for game developers to create both DOS and
Windows versions of their games. This is a first in the game development
industry."

On the included CD-ROM you'll get the powerful ACK-3D engine, which allows
you to develop 3-D games with the C/C++ programming language, as well as
an interactive visual game map editor that lets you create your 3-D worlds
"on the fly." You can even explore your worlds in 3-D interactively while
you're still designing them! You'll also get:

* A special version of "Slob Zone," the successful commercial
  game created with ACK-3D
* Sample game maps you can use with the game editor
* A Windows game template
* A complete set of object and wall bitmap art for creating
  your 3-D games
* Artwork for title screens and background images
* WinG DLLs and a custom WinG class interface
* Win32 DLLs
* A Windows template program that greatly speeds up the process
  of creating games
* Powerful Windows and DOS programs to help you create art for
  your games
* The best advice and programming tips from a master game designer
  and tool builder
* Complete royalty-free source code for the engines and game examples
  presented in the book and much more!

If you're serious about 3-D and WinG, Amazing 3-D Games
Adventure Set gives you what you've been looking for.

About the Author

Lary Myers is a major software developer and game designer. His
high-performance 3-D game engine and tools have been used by many leading
game companies to create their commercial games. He is the former system
operator of the popular Garners forum on CompuServe.

Product Snapshot

Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set by Lary Myers
ISBN: 1-883577-15-2
Date of Availability: April
$39.99 trade paper
600 pages; graphics and 3-D illustrations throughout
Includes CD-ROM

How to Order

Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set can be ordered directly from The Coriolis
Group at 1 -800-410-0192 or can be ordered in quantity from IDG Books
Worldwide, Inc. at 1-800-434-3433.

About The Coriolis Group

Founded in Scottsdale, AZ in 1989 by bestselling authors and developers
Keith Weiskamp and Jeff Duntemann, The Coriolis Group is a leading
publisher of innovative books and book/software kits. They publish the
well-known PC TECHNIQUES Magazine, and have won critical acclaim for the
best-sellers Inside the PowerPC Revolution and FREE $TUFF from the
Internet. The Coriolis Group publishes a complete line of books and
software products to help game and multimedia developers. These include PC
Game Programming EXplorer, which was recently declared a Computer Press
Association finalist for the 1994 "Best Advanced How-To Book: Software,"
Action Arcade Adventure Set, Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set, Visual Basic
Multimedia Adventure Set, Zen of Graphics Programming, and the forthcoming
Visual C++ Multimedia Adventure Set. Coriolis Group products are noted for
their powerful hands-on and easy-to-use construction kit software.
Coriolis Group Books are distributed to the trade by IDG Books Worldwide,
Inc.

7339 E. Acoma Drive, Suite 7
Scottsdale AZ 85260
800-410-0192,  (602) 483-0192,  FAX (602) 483-0193

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