Programming 2D games. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charles Kelly.
• Other Names: Kelly, Charles
• Contents: Getting Started; Overview; The Development Environment; What Is DirectX?; Why C++?; Naming Conventions Game Engine; Tips and Tools Windows Programming Fundamentals; Windows Programming Fundamentals; "Hello World" Windows Style; Device Context; Keyboard Input with Windows API; Using a Mutex to Prevent Multiple Instances Multitasking in Windows Introduction to DirectX; Introduction to DirectX; Initializing DirectX; Creating a Device; Clearing a Display Buffer; Page Flipping; A Clean Exit; The Graphics Class; Our First DirectX Program; Fullscreen or Windowed; Debug vs. Retail DLLs; Determining Device Capabilities The Game Engine; The Game Engine, Part 1; The Game Class; The Input Class; The Spacewar Class Sprites and Animation; Obtaining Game Graphics; The Graphics Pipeline; Drawing with Transparency; The TextureManager Class; The Image Class; Game Engine; Simple Animation Collisions and Entities; Vectors; Collisions; The Entity Class; Physics for 2D Games Sound; Obtaining Audio Files; Creating Audio Files; Using XACT; Adding Audio to the Game Engine; Adding Sound to the Game; Adjusting Audio Playback Text Sprite Text; Creating Custom Fonts; Text Class Details; DirectX Text; TextDX Class Details Adding an FPS Display Adding a Console; Console Class; Incorporating the Console into the Game Engine Enhanced Appearance; Bitmap Scrolling; Painter's Algorithm ; Parallax Scrolling Shadows and Reflections; Message Dialog; Input Dialog; Windows Dialogs in Fullscreen DirectX Applications; Dashboard Tiled Games; Why Tiled?; Creating a Tile Set; Creating Levels; Displaying the Tiles; Orthogonal Projection; Oblique Projection; Isometric Projection; Isometric Terrain; Elevation Layers Building a Complete Game; Evolutionary Prototyping Project Management; Design Document Prototype Textures Spacewar Tasks; Spacewar v1.0; Saving and Loading Network Programming; Network Overview; The Net Class; Initialize the Network; Creating a Server; Creating a Client; Get the Local IP Address; Sending; Receiving; Closing a Socket; Get Error; Client/Server Chat; Client/Server Spacewar; Spacewar Server; Spacewar Client The Journey Index Questions and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter. ;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : A K Peters/CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (438 pages)
• Subjects: 794.81526; Computer games -- Programming
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466508705; 1466508701
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