Game Programming for Teens
Game Programming for Teens
ISBN: 1598635182
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 94
Pages: 94
Authors: Maneesh Sethi
- 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
Game Programming for Teens
ISBN: 1598635182
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 94
Pages: 94
Authors: Maneesh Sethi
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