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Software Engineering and Computer Games
By Rudy Rucker
Publisher	: Addison Wesley
Pub Date	: December 17, 2002
ISBN	: 0-201-76791-0
Pages	: 544

"This book should be a requirement of anyone that wants to write games-period"-Andre Lamothe, author and CEO of Xtreme Games

Software Engineering and Computer Games was written with four broad goals:

• To teach a lively style of object-oriented software engineering.

• To show how to bring a complete program to the level of a commercial release.

• To provide a "game engine" framework of linked classes for game development.

• To help students create computer games that are interactive, rapidly executing, and visually beautiful.

It uses an object-oriented (OO) approach throughout, incorporating UML for OO analysis and design and discussing software patterns and how to make use of them in the design process.The book covers nine topics:

• Basic software engineering principles and techniques

• How to organize and complete a substantial software project.

• Practical examples of object-oriented design and programming.

• The design of computer games.

• Simulating physics inside our computer-generated worlds .

• Artificial life, or how to simulate live creatures inside a computer program.

• How to use two and three-dimensional computer graphics.

• Windows programming with the Microsoft Foundation Classes, or MFC.

• How to develop a project using Microsoft Visual Studio (Either Version 6.0 or .NET)