Andrew Howell – författare

This book teaches students and entry-level novices how to create games using the GameMaker engine. Readers will quickly hone their design skills with tutorials that are written so that beginners can quickly start building games while also providing lessons on how designers can ‘level up’ and add advanced options to their games. Readers will also have access to a website containing all the assets and resources to create their games, including sprites and animations, walk-through video tutorials of each lesson and music composed by professional musicians. Also provided are rubrics for instructors to use when grading student work or for readers learning on their own to evaluate their own work.

This book teaches students and entry-level novices how to create games using the GameMaker engine. Readers will quickly hone their design skills with tutorials that are written so that beginners can quickly start building games while also providing lessons on how designers can ‘level up’ and add advanced options to their games. Readers will also have access to a website containing all the assets and resources to create their games, including sprites and animations, walk-through video tutorials of each lesson and music composed by professional musicians. Also provided are rubrics for instructors to use when grading student work or for readers learning on their own to evaluate their own work.

GET OUT OF DENVER:Short Novel about a private company called Sub Terran and their ongoing top secret research that eventually puts the city of Denver Colorado in Jeopardy. The story highlights the crisis and how ST ( Sub Terran) interfaces with the various Military organizations to try and save the Colorado front range.SCRAMBLE:A short story based on military air warefare games and covert undercover operations.

INTRO TO WRITERS WRITEAn aspiring young writer named Harry Wells falls for Margaret Kennedy a socialite he meets while they are attending Cornell University. A romantic at heart, he is smitten by her apparent style and beauty while blind to her many faults. This will grow to haunt him in the years to come. They marry after graduation and all is right with the world until the other side of the bride starts to come out. While Harry gains success and fortune as a writer he drifts apart from his wife until an inevitable clash sends him spinning. More sinister details emerge about the past of Margaret Kennedy-Wells as the story picks up the pace with a series of surprising developments.Filled with humorous twists and tangles throughout, including a seductive and alluring sexual Blonde Brazilian in Wicked Weasel Bikinis as a tenant, Lawyers around every corner, New Porn Starlets, An ex-Military South African CEO of a Global security company and his sweet auburn haired sister, along with The worlds best Bourbon, all add up to a well-tailored, compelling read. The author creates very original, entertaining, and memorable characters that draw you into a well scripted storyline.THE KANSAS CITY KENNEDYSThis second story is an action packed tale about the Racketeers and Organizers that set up the first major gangs in Kansas City in the early 70s. It takes you into a world of, Card Sharks turned Mob leaders that have New York connections with established Irish and Italian bosses. Their antics, their Gangs and their Girls highlight this well written and explosive piece of literary work. It ties in the origin of one of the key characters from WRITERS WRITE and sets the stage for the upcoming novel BLACK DOVE.

" Mystery, suspense, Eve-il, and diverse erotica flow through this presentation of intriguing short stories. Two detectives chase a serial killer through a sodden underworld of sexual depravity in EVE-IL. Strange repercussions are at work for the crew of a large drilling rig offshore in Colombia as the result of the abhorrent actions of two crew members in a small town bring an ancient evil to the surface in RIG-WRAITHS.Follow the actions of a young businessman and his kinky exploits with his "Girl Friend" in COLD ETHEL. Run with the Hound dogs in an off beat tale of life in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas during the late 1920''s in YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE BLOODLINE STRONG.Alien Conspiracy theories collide with an ominous religious televangelist for the story I TOLD YOU SO. These and other entertaining tales lurk within the heart of this short story collection....