Programming 2D Games

Getting Started Overview The Development Environment What Is DirectX? Why C++? Game Engine Tips and Tools Windows Programming Fundamentals "Hello World" Windows Style Device Context Keyboard Input with Windows API Using a Mutex to Prevent Multiple Instances How Windows Works Introduction to DirectX Introduction to DirectX Initializing DirectX Creating a Device Clearing a Display Buffer Page Flipping A Clean Exit The Graphics Class Our First DirectX Program Full Screen or Windowed Debug vs. Retail DLLs Determining Device Capabilities The Game Engine Game Engine Part 1 The Game Class The Input Class The SpaceWar Class Sprites and Animation The Graphics Pipeline Drawing with Transparency The TextureManager Class The Image Class Game Engine Simple Animation Collisions and Entities Vectors Collisions The Entity Class Physics for 2D Games Sound Creating Audio Files Using XACT Adjusting Audio Playback Adding Audio to the Game Engine Playing a Sound Game GUI Sprite Text DirectX Text The Text Class Menus Dialog Boxes Text Boxes Progress Bars Console Adding Depth to 2D Games Parallax Scrolling Bitmap Scrolling Painters Algorithm Perspective Scaling Shadows Tiled Games Why Tiled? Creating a Tile Set Map Editor Scrolling the Background Random Map Generation Building a Complete Game Saving and Loading Games Space War v1.0 Space Pirates Network Programming IP Networks TCP and UDP Client/Server Model Local Area Networks Internet Space War