Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition

by Mike McShaffry

Overview

GAME CODING COMPLETE is the essential hands-on guide to developing commercial-quality games. Drawing on his in-depth industry experience, the authors take programmers through the complete process of developing a professional-quality game using hundreds of insider tricks and techniques developed and perfected in their nearly two decades in game development. The book takes a unique approach to understanding overall architecture--explaining how the different components of a game engine work together. Complete source code is included and every line is explained. Covering a range of topics that will appeal to the most discriminating programmers, GAME CODING COMPLETE also covers key issues that could trip up even veteran programmers. This updated fourth edition uses the latest versions of DirectX and Visual Studio, and it includes expanded chapter coverage of the C# editor, resource caching, network code, and other important updates to every chapter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781133776581
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	03/06/2012
Sold by:	CENGAGE LEARNING
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	959
Sales rank:	751,523
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Mike McShaffry, aka "Mr. Mike," began programming games as soon as he could tap a keyboard. After graduating from the University of Houston, he worked for Warren Spector and Richard Garriott, aka "Lord British," at Origin Systems on the Ultima series, including Ultima Online. Since then he's worked on more than a dozen shipped games, including Magnadoodle (PC); a series of card and casino games for Microsoft; Thief: Deadly Shadows (Xbox/PC); 24 Blue for U.S. Navy; Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars (Wii); Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Wii/PS2); Cook or Be Cooked (Wii); Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (Wii); Thor: God of Thunder (Wii/3DS); and Inertia: Escape Velocity (iOS/Android). Mike is currently Director of Product Development for Red Fly Studio in Austin, Texas.

David "Rez" Graham is a self-taught programmer who has been writing games in his basement since 1996. In 2005, he landed a programming job at Super-Ego Games where he worked on minigames and AI for Barbie Diaries: High School Mystery for the PC. He also worked on a comedy adventure game called RatRace for the PlayStation 3. In 2008, Rez went to work for Planet Moon and worked on Brain Quest for the Game Boy DS and Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter for the Wii. Rez went to PlayFirst in 2010 where he worked on Diner Dash: Grillin' Green for the iPad and was the lead engineer for Wedding Dash for the iPhone 4. Rez currently works at Electronic Arts as an AI programmer for the Sims division. He has shipped two titles there, which include The Sims Medieval and the Pirates & Nobles Adventure Pack. He is currently the lead AI programmer for an upcoming Sims title.

Table of Contents

1. What is Game Programming Really Like? 2. What's in a Game? 3. Coding Tidbits and Style That Will Save You. 4. Building Your Game. 5. Game Initialization and Shutdown. 6. Game Actors. 7. Controlling the Main Loop. 8. Loading and Caching Game Data. 9. Programming Input Devices. 10. User Interface Programming. 11. Game Event Management. 12. Scripting with Lua. 13. Game Audio. 14. 3D Graphics Basics. 15. 3D Vertex and Pixel Shaders. 16. 3D Scenes. 17. Collision and Simple Physics. 18. Network Programming Primer. 19. An Introduction to Game AI. 20. Introduction to Multiprogramming. 21. A Game of Teapot Wars! 22. A Simple Game Editor in C#. 23. Debugging Your Game. 24. Driving to the Finish.