Beginning C++ Game Programming: Learn to program with C++ by

Get to grips with programming methods and sport growth utilizing C++ libraries and Visual Studio 2019

Key Features

• Learn sport growth and C++ with a enjoyable, example-driven method
• Build clones of standard video games resembling Timberman, Zombie Survival Shooter, a co-op puzzle platformer, and Space Invaders
• Discover suggestions to develop your completed video games by pondering critically, technically, and creatively

Book Description

The second version of Beginning C++ Game Programming is up to date and improved to embody the most recent options of Visual Studio 2019, SFML, and trendy C++ programming methods. With this e-book, you may get a enjoyable introduction to sport programming by constructing 5 absolutely playable video games of accelerating complexity. You’ll be taught to construct clones of standard video games resembling Timberman, Pong, a Zombie survival shooter, a coop puzzle platformer and Space Invaders.

The e-book begins by overlaying the fundamentals of programming. You’ll research key C++ subjects, resembling object-oriented programming (OOP) and C++ pointers, and get acquainted with the Standard Template Library (STL). The e-book helps you be taught about collision detection methods and sport physics by constructing a Pong sport. As you construct video games, you may additionally be taught thrilling sport programming ideas resembling particle results, directional sound (spatialization), OpenGL programmable shaders, spawning objects, and far more. Finally, you may discover sport design patterns to improve your C++ sport programming abilities.

By the tip of the e-book, you may have gained the information you want to construct your personal video games with thrilling options from scratch

What you will be taught

• Set up your sport growth venture in Visual Studio 2019 and discover C++ libraries resembling SFML
• Explore C++ OOP by constructing a Pong sport
• Understand core sport ideas resembling sport animation, sport physics, collision detection, scorekeeping, and sport sound
• Use lessons, inheritance, and references to spawn and management hundreds of enemies and shoot rapid-fire machine weapons
• Add superior options to your sport utilizing pointers, references, and the STL
• Scale and reuse your sport code by studying trendy sport programming design patterns

Who this e-book is for

This e-book is ideal for you if in case you have no C++ programming information, you want a beginner-level refresher course, otherwise you want to learn the way to construct video games or simply use video games as an enticing method to be taught C++. Whether you aspire to publish a sport (maybe on Steam) or simply want to impress associates with your creations, you may discover this e-book helpful.

Table of Contents

1. C++, SFML, Visual Studio. and Starting the First Game
2. Variables, Operators, and Decisions ―Animating Sprites
3. C++ Strings and SFML Time ― Player Input and HUD
4. Loops, Arrays, Switches, Enumerations, and Functions ― Implementing Game I%
5. Collisions. Sound, and End Conditions ― Making the Game Playable
6. Object-Oriented Programming ― Starting the Pong Game
7. Dynamic Collision Detection and Physics ― Finishing the Pong Game
8. SFML Views ― Starting the Zombie Shooter Game
9. C++ References, Sprite Sheets, and Vertex Arrays
10. Pointers, the Standard Template Library, and Texture Management
11. Collision Detection, Pickups, and Bullets
12. Layering Views and Implementing the HUD
13. Sound Effects, File 110, and Finishing the Game
14. Abstraction and Code Management ― Making Better Use of 00P
15. Advanced OOP ― Inheritance and Polymorphism
16. Building Playable Levels and Collision Detection
17. Sound Spatialization and the HUD
18. Particle Systems and Shaders

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