SDL game development : discover how to leverage the power of SDL 2.0 to create awesome games in C++

SDL game development discover how to leverage the power of SDL 2.0 to create awesome games in C++

Written as a practical and engaging tutorial, SDL Game Development guides you through developing your own framework and the creation of two engaging games.If you know C++ and you're looking to make great games from the ground up, then this book is perfect for you.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mitchell, Shawn Ross (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Pub 2013.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Community experience distilled
Materias:
SDL (electronic resource)
Multimedia systems.
Video games > Programming.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • SDL Game Development
  • Table of Contents
  • SDL Game Development
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewers
  • www.PacktPub.com
  • Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
  • Why Subscribe?
  • Free Access for Packt account holders
  • Preface
  • What this book covers
  • What you need for this book
  • Who this book is for
  • Conventions
  • Reader feedback
  • Customer support
  • Downloading the example code
  • Errata
  • Piracy
  • Questions
  • 1. Getting Started with SDL
  • Why use SDL?
  • What is new in SDL 2.0?
  • Migrating SDL 1.2 extensions
  • Setting up SDL in Visual C++ Express 2010
  • Using Mercurial to get SDL 2.0 on Windows
  • Cloning and building the latest SDL 2.0 repository
  • I have the library
  • now what?
  • Hello SDL
  • An overview of Hello SDL
  • SDL initialization flags
  • SDL renderer flags
  • What makes up a game
  • Breaking up the Hello SDL code
  • What does this code do?
  • The Game class
  • Fullscreen SDL
  • Summary
  • 2. Drawing in SDL
  • Basic SDL drawing
  • Getting some images
  • Creating an SDL texture
  • Source and destination rectangles
  • Animating a sprite sheet
  • Flipping images
  • Installing SDL_image
  • Using SDL_image
  • Tying it into the framework
  • Creating the texture manager
  • Using texture manager as a singleton
  • Summary
  • 3. Working with Game Objects
  • Using inheritance
  • Implementing polymorphism
  • Using abstract base classes
  • Should we always use inheritance?
  • Could the same thing be achieved with a simpler solution?
  • Derived classes should model the "is a" relationship
  • Possible performance penalties
  • Putting it all together
  • Summary
  • 4. Exploring Movement and Input Handling
  • Setting up game objects for movement
  • What is a vector?
  • Some common operations
  • Addition of two vectors
  • Multiply by a scalar number
  • Subtraction of two vectors.
  • Divide by a scalar number
  • Normalizing a vector
  • Adding the Vector2D class
  • Adding velocity
  • Adding acceleration
  • Creating fixed frames per second
  • Input handling
  • Creating our input handler class
  • Handling joystick/gamepad input
  • SDL joystick events
  • Initializing joysticks
  • Listening for and handling axis movement
  • Dealing with joystick button input
  • Handling mouse events
  • Using mouse button events
  • Handling mouse motion events
  • Implementing keyboard input
  • Wrapping things up
  • Summary
  • 5. Handling Game States
  • A simple way for switching states
  • Implementing finite state machines
  • A base class for game states
  • Implementing FSM
  • Implementing menu states
  • Function pointers and callback functions
  • Implementing the temporary play state
  • Pausing the game
  • Creating the game over state
  • Summary
  • 6. Data-driven Design
  • Loading XML files
  • Basic XML structure
  • Implementing Object Factories
  • Using Distributed Factories
  • Fitting the factory into the framework
  • Parsing states from an XML file
  • Loading the menu state from an XML file
  • Loading other states from an XML file
  • Loading the play state
  • Loading the pause state
  • Loading the game over state
  • Summary
  • 7. Creating and Displaying Tile Maps
  • What is a tile map?
  • Getting familiar with the Tiled application
  • Parsing and drawing a tile map
  • Creating the TileLayer class
  • Creating the LevelParser class
  • Parsing tilesets
  • Parsing a tile layer
  • Drawing the map
  • Scrolling a tile map
  • Parsing object layers
  • Developing the ObjectLayer class
  • Summary
  • 8. Creating Alien Attack
  • Using the SDL_mixer extension for sound
  • Creating the SoundManager class
  • Setting up the basic game objects
  • GameObject revamped
  • SDLGameObject is now ShooterObject
  • Player inherits from ShooterObject
  • Lots of enemy types.
  • Adding a scrolling background
  • Handling bullets
  • Two types of bullets
  • The BulletHandler class
  • Dealing with collisions
  • Creating a CollisionManager class
  • Possible improvements
  • Summary
  • 9. Creating Conan the Caveman
  • Setting up the basic game objects
  • No more bullets or bullet collisions
  • Game objects and map collisions
  • ShooterObject is now PlatformerObject
  • The Camera class
  • Camera-controlled map
  • The Player class
  • Possible additions
  • Summary
  • Index.

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