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Part I.
Windows Programming Foundations |
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Chapter 1.
Journey into the Abyss |
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A Little History |
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Designing Games |
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Types of Games |
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Brainstorming on Ideas |
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The Design Document and Storyboards |
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Making the Game Fun |
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The Components of a Game |
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General Game Programming Guidelines |
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Using Tools |
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Setting Up to Get Down—Using the Compiler |
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An Example: FreakOut |
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Summary |
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Chapter 2.
The Windows Programming Model |
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The Genesis of Windows |
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Multitasking and Multithreading |
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Programming the Microsoft Way: Hungarian Notation |
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The World's Simplest Windows Program |
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Real-World Windows Applications (Without Puck) |
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The Windows Class |
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Registering the Windows Class |
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Creating the Window |
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The Event Handler |
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The Main Event Loop |
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Making a Real-Time Event Loop |
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Opening More Windows |
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Summary |
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Chapter 3.
Advanced Windows Programming |
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Using Resources |
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Working with Menus |
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Introduction to GDI (Graphics Device Interface) |
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Handling Important Events |
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Sending Messages Yourself |
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Summary |
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Chapter 4.
Windows GDI, Controls, and Last-Minute Gift Ideas |
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Advanced GDI Graphics |
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Points, Lines, Polygons, and Circles |
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More on Text and Fonts |
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Timing Is Everything |
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Playing with Controls |
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Getting Information |
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The T3D Game Console |
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Summary |
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Part II.
DirectX and 2D Fundamentals |
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Chapter 5.
DirectX Fundamentals and the Dreaded COM |
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DirectX Primer |
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COM: Is It the Work of Microsoft… or Demons? |
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Working with DirectX COM Objects |
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The Future of COM |
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Summary |
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Chapter 6.
First Contact: DirectDraw |
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The Interfaces of DirectDraw |
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Creating a DirectDraw Object |
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Cooperating with Windows |
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Getting into the Mode of Things |
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The Subtleties of Color |
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Building a Display Surface |
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Summary |
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Chapter 7.
Advanced DirectDraw and Bitmapped Graphics |
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Working with High-Color Modes |
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Double Buffering |
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Surface Dynamics |
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Page Flipping |
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Using the Blitter |
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Clipper Fundamentals |
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Working with Bitmaps |
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Offscreen Surfaces |
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Bitmap Rotation and Scaling |
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Discrete Sampling Theory |
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Color Effects |
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Manual Color Transforms and Lookup Tables |
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The New DirectX Color and Gamma Controls Interface |
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Mixing GDI and DirectX |
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Getting the Lowdown on DirectDraw |
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Using DirectDraw in Windowed Modes |
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Summary |
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Chapter 8.
Vector Rasterization and 2D Transformations |
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Drawing Lines |
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Basic 2D Clipping |
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Wireframe Polygons |
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Transformations in the 2D Plane |
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Introduction to Matrices |
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Translation |
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Scaling |
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Rotation |
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Solid Filled Polygons |
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Collision Detection with Polygons |
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More on Timing and Synchronization |
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Scrolling and Panning |
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Fake 3D Isometric Engines |
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The T3DLIB1 Library |
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The BOB (Blitter Object) Engine |
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Summary |
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Chapter 9.
Uplinking with DirectInput and Force Feedback |
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The Input Loop Revisited |
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DirectInput Overture |
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Going Deeper with Force Feedback |
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Writing a Generalized Input System: T3DLIB2.CPP |
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Summary |
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Chapter 10.
Sounding Off with DirectSound and DirectMusic |
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Sound Programming on the PC |
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And Then There Was Sound… |
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Digital Versus MIDI—Sounds Great, Less Filling |
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Sound Hardware |
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Digital Recording: Tools and Techniques |
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DirectSound on the Mic |
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Starting Up DirectSound |
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Primary and Secondary Sound Buffers |
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Rendering Sounds |
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Making DirectSound Talk Back |
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Reading Sounds from Disk |
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DirectMusic: The Great Experiment |
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DirectMusic Architecture |
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Starting Up DirectMusic |
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Loading a MIDI Segment |
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Manipulating MIDI Segments |
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The T3DLIB3 Sound and Music Library |
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Summary |
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Part III.
Hardcore Game Programming |
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Chapter 11.
Algorithms, Data Structures, Memory Management, and Multithreading |
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Data Structures |
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Algorithmic Analysis |
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Recursion |
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Trees |
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Optimization Theory |
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Making Demos |
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Strategies for Saving the Game |
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Implementing Multiple Players |
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Multithreaded Programming Techniques |
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Summary |
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Chapter 12.
Making Silicon Think with Artificial Intelligence |
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Artificial Intelligence Primer |
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Deterministic AI Algorithms |
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Patterns and Basic Control Scripting |
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Modeling Behavioral State Systems |
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Modeling Memory and Learning with Software |
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Planning and Decision Trees |
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Pathfinding |
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Advanced AI Scripting |
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Artificial Neural Networks |
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Genetic Algorithms |
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Fuzzy Logic |
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Building Real AI for Games |
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Summary |
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Chapter 13.
Playing God: Basic Physics Modeling |
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Fundamental Laws of Physics |
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The Physics of Linear Momentum: Conservation and Transfer |
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Modeling Gravity Effects |
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The Evil Head of Friction |
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Basic Ad Hoc Collision Response |
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Real 2D Object-to-Object Collision Response (Advanced) |
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Resolving the n-t Coordinate System |
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Simple Kinematics |
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Particle Systems |
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Playing God: Constructing Physics Models for Games |
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Summary |
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Chapter 14.
The Text Generation |
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What Is a Text Game? |
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How Do Text Games Work? |
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Getting Input from the Outside World |
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Language Analysis and Parsing |
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Putting All the Pieces Together |
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Implementing Sight, Sound, and Smell |
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Making It Real-Time |
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Error Handling |
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Creeping Around with Shadow Land |
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The Language of Shadow Land |
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Building and Playing Shadow Land |
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Summary |
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Chapter 15.
Putting It All Together: You Got Game! |
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The Initial Design of Outpost |
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The Tools Used to Write the Game |
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The Game Universe: Scrolling in Space |
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The Player's Ship: "The Wraith" |
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The Asteroid Field |
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The Enemies |
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The Power-Ups |
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The HUDS |
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The Particle System |
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Playing the Game |
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Compiling Outpost |
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Epilogue |
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Part IV.
Appendixes |
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Appendix A.
What's on the CD-ROMs |
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Appendix B.
Installing DirectX and Using the C/C++ Compiler |
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Using the C/C++ Compiler |
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Appendix C.
Math and Trigonometry Review |
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Trigonometry |
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Vectors |
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Appendix D.
C++ Primer |
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What Is C++? |
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The Minimum You Need to Know About C++ |
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New Types, Keywords, and Conventions |
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Memory Management |
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Stream I/O |
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Classes |
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The Scope Resolution Operator |
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Function and Operator Overloading |
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Summary |
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Appendix E.
Game Programming Resources |
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Game Programming Sites |
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Download Points |
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2D/3D Engines |
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Game Programming Books |
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Microsoft DirectX Multimedia Exposition |
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Usenet Newsgroups |
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Keeping Up with the Industry: Blues News |
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Game Development Magazines |
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Game Web Site Developers |
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Xtreme Games LLC |
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Appendix F.
ASCII Tables |
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Index |
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