1st Edition

Programming 2D Games

By Charles Kelly Copyright 2012
    440 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    A First Course in Game Programming
    Most of today’s commercial games are written in C++ and are created using a game engine. Addressing both of these key elements, Programming 2D Games provides a complete, up-to-date introduction to game programming. All of the code in the book was carefully crafted using C++. As game programming techniques are introduced, students learn how to incorporate them into their own game engine and discover how to use the game engine to create a complete game.

    Enables Students to Create 2D Games
    The text covers sprites, animation, collision detection, sound, text display, game dashboards, special graphic effects, tiled games, and network programming. It systematically explains how to program DirectX applications and emphasizes proper software engineering techniques. Every topic is explained theoretically and with working code examples. The example programs for each chapter are available at www.programming2dgames.com.

    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.

    Biography

    Charles Kelly is an associate professor at Monroe County Community College, where he teaches game programming and other computer science courses. He is also the project lead of and major contributor to the open source assembler/simulator "EASy68K." He earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where he is also an adjunct instructor.