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Game Programming for Teens

ISBN: 1598635182
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 94

Authors: Maneesh Sethi

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• Main page
• Table of contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Letter from the Series Editor
• Introduction
• What s in the book?
• Who Are You?
• Who am I?
• Conventions Used in this Book
• Let s Get Ready to Rumble
• Part ONE: The Basics of BASIC
• Chapter 1. Getting Started
• A Brief History of BASIC
• The First Game: KONG
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Getting to Know BASIC
• Hello, World
• Variables
• Input
• Conditionals
• Logical Operators
• The Goto Command
• A Text-Based Guessing Game
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Loops, Functions, Arrays, and Types
• Loops
• Functions
• Arrays
• Types
• Putting It All Together: Textanoid
• Summary
• Chapter 4. The Style Factor
• Developing Style
• Comments
• Function and Variable Names
• Summary
• Part TWO: Getting Graphical
• Chapter 5. Beginning Graphics
• Creating the Graphics Window
• Images
• Colors
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Page Flipping and Pixel Plotting
• Page Flipping
• Locking and Unlocking Buffers
• Using Buffers: A Paint Program
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Basic Image Programming
• Transformations
• Parallaxing
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Animation
• Using Bitmaps in Animation
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Collision Detection
• Basic Collisions
• Bounding Circles
• Bounding Boxes
• Pixel-Imperfect Collisions
• Pixel-Perfect Collisions
• Summary
• Part THREE: Completing the Puzzle
• Chapter 10. Handling Input
• Handling the Keyboard
• Mapping the Mouse to the Screen
• Joystick Input
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Sounds and Music
• Sound
• Music
• Summary
• Chapter 12. Artificial Intelligence
• Random Numbers
• Chasing and Evading
• Summary
• Chapter 13. The Final Frontier: Invaderz
• Let s Bust It: Planning the Game
• Constants, Functions, and Types in Invaderz
• Playing Invaderz
• Conclusion
• Part FOUR: APPENDIXES
• Appendix A. SCAN CODE REFERENCE
• Appendix B. Useful Links
• Blitz Basic Links
• General Game Programming Links
• Appendix C. What s on the CD
• Source
• Art
• Sounds
• Games
• Programs