- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (18 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201489112
- ISBN-13: 978-0201489118
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,450,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Build Your Own PC Game in Seven Easy Steps teaches you the skills youneed to start programming good PC games for Windows(TM). Step by step, you'llsee how to pull a game together. The first step is deciding what type of game to program (adventure, arcade, orthe ubiquitous other), and move on to planning your game, prototyping it, andproviding for interactivity with the player. Then you'll learn to incorporategraphics, use animation and 3D effects, and add music and sound. The final stepis getting your game ready to market. Throughout the book, specific coding examples in Visual Basic(TM) will show youhow to implement concepts. Relatively easy to use, Visual Basic is a good wayto learn game programming basics. You'll discover tips and techniques formaking the most of this popular programming environment in building your games.
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Learn PC Games Programming the Quick and Easy Way
Think games programming is tough? Guess again! The basic concepts andtechniques behind creating your own PC games can be easily learned by anyonewith a little programming know-how.
Build Your Own PC Game in Seven Easy Steps teaches you the skills youneed to start programming good PC games for Windows(TM). Step by step, you'llsee how to pull a game together.
The first step is deciding what type of game to program (adventure, arcade, orthe ubiquitous other), and move on to planning your game, prototyping it, andproviding for interactivity with the player. Then you'll learn to incorporategraphics, use animation and 3D effects, and add music and sound. The final stepis getting your game ready to market.
Throughout the book, specific coding examples in Visual Basic(TM) will show youhow to implement concepts. Relatively easy to use, Visual Basic is a good wayto learn game programming basics. You'll discover tips and techniques formaking the most of this popular programming environment in building yourgames.
Written in a humorous style, Build Your Own PC Game in Seven EasySteps will show you how to :
- design fun and challenging games
- use game algorithms
- create striking graphics and animation
- integrate sound effects
- test and debug your game efficiently
- port your Visual Basic games to other platforms.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The game developed in these seven steps really s****. The graphics were created using Paintbrush. There's no sound. No animation.
Format:Paperback
This book is definitely not for people who want to build a real game--it would take more than seven steps, and they wouldn't be easy. If you want to make some crappy text game then go right ahead and get the book. The stuff here won't pass for anything except freeware. Luckily, that's noted at the beginning of the book, but once you buy it, it's too late.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although well written, easy to understand and learn from, this book is now quite out of date. Techniques do not touch on DirectX, but will get the beginner writing 3 types of game; a text adventure, a graphical text adventure, and a clone of the Windows game "Downhill ski".
I enjoyed reading this, although it works in older version of Visual Basic, and some sections of code I altered as I worked. But it is a good book for beginners.
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