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Programming 2D Games Hardcover – Illustrated, 21 Jun. 2012

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A First Course in Game ProgrammingMost 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 GamesThe 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.

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146650868X
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978-1466508682
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1st
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A K Peters/CRC Press
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21 Jun. 2012
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English
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19.05 x 2.54 x 23.62 cm
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440 pages
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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ A K Peters/CRC Press; 1st edition (21 Jun. 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 146650868X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1466508682
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 2.54 x 23.62 cm

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Michael Boyle

Great book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2018

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I love this book - as a owner of the ebook edition I decided to have it in hardback. A great book for learning 2D game programming from start to finish - this book takes you through the steps of building your own game engine. His supporting website is fantastic and the author is very helpful.

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Dennis N

Best book on making 2D Games

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2016

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Very good book on every aspect of making 2D games. It is well written and easy to read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2016

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2013

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This book is good for beginners and intermmediate programmers and allows you to start creating a game very quickly. This being because programming 2D games is less challenging than 3D, and in my opinion a better place to start. Other books tend to focus on 3D programming which requires a lot more knowledge and can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. Whereas programming in 2D allows you to be more focused on creativity. I like this book and I like 2D games and once you've got to a good level understanding the mechanics of a 2D game I think the transition to 3D should be less daunting.

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Confusing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2013

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This book does what it says it will do. It will show you basic code for most parts of DirectX, and at the end you'll have a working game. As far as the "why's" and the "how's" of the code, you're pretty much on your own there, there's many examples of working code, why it works or how it works? I've no idea, the answers are not in this book.
Throughout, there's seemingly random code just shoved in there, and no indication as to whether you're supposed to be typing it up, just looking at it as an example or downloading the code from the website (it only tells you what code was used from the website at the end of each chapter!?).
I think his philosophy is: "Here's how to use DirectX, go and play!" rather than "This is DirectX, I'm going to show you how to use it step-by-step".
I have a basic understanding of C++ (NOT Visual C++) and if you don't have any experience with programming (which the book says you don't need) you're going to have a very bad time.
You can get the same information and better explanations for free using tutorial websites/video sites, and they will give you free code to play with too. Save your money.

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Wan't to learn how to create a 2D game from scratch? Then this book is for you!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2016

Unlike other books that simply teach you how to make a game using this or that engine. This books actually teaches you how to build your own 2D engine from scratch which is a big plus. Instead of teaching you how to use an existing engine/library, the author starts by teaching you how to create the window, set up DirectX, create an input manager and so on. He even teaches you the basic network (WinSock) logic needed to add basic multiplayer functionality to the engine. During the course of the book you also build a simple Spacewar game on top of this engine. After finishing the book, you have a very good starting point for an engine that you can then expand on with your own ideas. You could even expand on it to add full 3D support!

So, this is definitely a book for people who want to know all the low level details of how a game is made, piece by piece. If you're looking for something easier to digest or if you've never made a game before, you're probably better of starting with some other book that only teaches you the actual game related parts and not the nitty gritty underlying stuff. Also I have to point out that the book assumes you have at least an intermediate knowledge of C++ so make sure to read up on that first before digging into this book.

I'd give it 5/5 if it wasn't for the fact that quite a bit of code is left out of the book with references to the website where you can download the full source code, meaning if you don't have internet access, you might be lost here and there and not understand the whole picture. The book could have been made thicker to include these pieces of code as well in my opinion.

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