Swift game programming for absolute beginners. ([2015])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Swift game programming for absolute beginners. ([2015])
- Main Title:
- Swift game programming for absolute beginners
- Further Information:
- Note: Arjan Egges.
- Authors:
- Egges, Arjan
- Contents:
- At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Getting Started; Chapter 1: The Swift Language; Computers and Programs; Processors and Memory ; Programs ; Programming Languages ; Programming Games; Developing Games; Small Scale: Edit-Compile-Run; Large Scale: Design-Specify-Implement; Building Your First Swift Program; Building Your First Swift Game; A Few Observations; What You Have Learned; Chapter 2: Game Programming Basics; Building Blocks of a Game; The Game World; The Game Loop; The Game Loop in Swift. The Structure of a Program Types of Applications; Functions ; Syntax Diagrams; Calling a Function ; Program Layout; Comments ; Instructions vs. Lines ; Whitespace and Indentation ; What You Have Learned; Chapter 3: Creating a Game World; Basic Types and Variables; Types ; Declaration and Assignment of Variables; Instructions and Expressions ; Operators and More Complex Expressions; Arithmetic Operators ; Priority of Operators ; Other Numeric Types ; The DiscoWorld Game ; Scope of Variables ; What You Have Learned; Chapter 4: Game Assets; Locating Sprites. Loading and Drawing Sprites Resolutions and Aspect Ratios; Moving Sprites; Loading and Drawing Multiple Sprites; Configuring the Device Orientation; Music and Sounds ; What You Have Learned; Part II: Painter; Chapter 5: Reacting to Player Input; Dealing With Touch Input; Using the Touch Location to Change the Game World; Conditional Execution Based on Touch;At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Getting Started; Chapter 1: The Swift Language; Computers and Programs; Processors and Memory ; Programs ; Programming Languages ; Programming Games; Developing Games; Small Scale: Edit-Compile-Run; Large Scale: Design-Specify-Implement; Building Your First Swift Program; Building Your First Swift Game; A Few Observations; What You Have Learned; Chapter 2: Game Programming Basics; Building Blocks of a Game; The Game World; The Game Loop; The Game Loop in Swift. The Structure of a Program Types of Applications; Functions ; Syntax Diagrams; Calling a Function ; Program Layout; Comments ; Instructions vs. Lines ; Whitespace and Indentation ; What You Have Learned; Chapter 3: Creating a Game World; Basic Types and Variables; Types ; Declaration and Assignment of Variables; Instructions and Expressions ; Operators and More Complex Expressions; Arithmetic Operators ; Priority of Operators ; Other Numeric Types ; The DiscoWorld Game ; Scope of Variables ; What You Have Learned; Chapter 4: Game Assets; Locating Sprites. Loading and Drawing Sprites Resolutions and Aspect Ratios; Moving Sprites; Loading and Drawing Multiple Sprites; Configuring the Device Orientation; Music and Sounds ; What You Have Learned; Part II: Painter; Chapter 5: Reacting to Player Input; Dealing With Touch Input; Using the Touch Location to Change the Game World; Conditional Execution Based on Touch; Testing for Alternatives; Comparison Operators; Logic Operators; The Boolean Type; Changing the Color of the Cannon; A Few Final Remarks; What You Have Learned; Chapter 6: A Flying Ball; Methods. Parameter Names and Labels Default Parameter Values; Reorganizing Instructions into Methods; Moving Between Local and World Coordinates; Adding a Ball to the Game World; Shooting the Ball; Updating the Ball Position; Fixed Timestep vs. Variable Timestep; Updating the Ball Color; What You Have Learned; Chapter 7: Game Object Types; Creating Multiple Objects of the Same Type; Classes as Types; Input Handling in a Separate Class; Initializing Objects; The Self Keyword; Accessing Other Objects Using Static Variables; The Double Role of Classes. Writing a Class with Multiple Instances Dealing with Randomness in Games; Calculating a Random Velocity and Color; Updating the Paint Can; What You Have Learned; Chapter 8: Colors and Collisions; A Different Way to Represent Colors; Controlled Data Access for Objects; Adding a Computed Property to a Class; Handling Collisions Between the Ball and the Cans; Values and References; Structs; What You Have Learned; Chapter 9: Limited Lives; Maintaining the Number of Lives; Indicating the Number of Lives to the Player; Executing Instructions Multiple Times. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Berkeley, CA : Apress
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Copyright Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 005.756
Computer science
Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Application software -- Development
Computer games -- Programming
COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- General
Application software -- Development
Computer games -- Programming
Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Programming & scripting languages: general
Computers -- Programming -- Games
Games development & programming
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781484206508
1484206509
1484206517
9781484206515 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781484206515
- Notes:
- Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 5, 2015).
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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