Introduction to Video Game Engine Development: Learn to Design, Implement, and Use a Cross-Platform 2D Game Engine - Brossura

Brusca, Victor G

Brossura

ISBN 10: 148427038X ISBN 13: 9781484270387

Casa editrice: Apress, 2021

Riassunto

Start your video game development journey by learning how to build a 2D game engine from scratch. Using Java (with NetBeans as your IDE and using Java’s graphics framework) or by following along in C# (with Visual Studio as your IDE and using the MonoGame framework), you’ll cover the design and implementation of a 2D game engine in detail. Each class will be reviewed with demonstration code. You’ll gain experience using the engine by building a game from the ground up.

Introduction to Video Game Engine Development reviews the design and implementation of a 2D game engine in three parts. Part 1 covers the low-level API class by class. You’ll see how to abstract lower-level functionality and design a set of classes that interact seamlessly with each other. You’ll learn how to draw objects, play sounds, render text, and more. In Part 2, you’ll review the mid-level API that is responsible for drawing the game, loading resources, and managing user input. Lastly, in Part 3, you’ll build a game from the ground up following a step-by-step process using the 2D game engine you just reviewed.

On completing this book, you’ll have a solid foundation in video game engine design and implementation. You’ll also get exposure to building games from scratch, creating the solid foundation you’ll need to work with more advanced game engines, and industry tools, that require learning complex software, APIs, and IDEs.  

What You Will Learn

• Gain experience with lower-level game engine APIs and abstracting framework functionality
• Write application-level APIs: launching the game, loading resources, settings, processing input, and more
• Discover cross-platform APIs in the game engine projects written in both Java and C#/MonoGame
• Develop games with an SDK-based game engine and simplified tool chain focused on direct control of the game through code
• Master creating games by using the game engine to build a game from the ground up with only code and an IDE

Who This Book Is For 

Those of you out there with some programming experience, moderate to advanced, who want to learn how to write video games using modern game engine designs.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Victor Brusca is an experienced software developer specializing in building cross-platform applications and APIs. He regards himself as a self-starter with a keen eye for detail, an obsessive protection of systems/data, and a desire to write well-documented, well-encapsulated code. With over 14 years' software development experience, he has been involved in game and game engine projects on J2ME, T-Mobile SideKick, WebOS, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, and web platforms.

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Start your video game development journey by learning how to build a 2D game engine from scratch. Using Java (with Netbeans as IDE and on Swing framework) and C# (VisualStudio as IDE and on the Monogame framework), you ll cover the design and implementation of a 2D game engine in detail. Each class will be reviewed with demonstration code. You ll gain experience using the engine by building two games from the ground up.

This book reviews the design and implementation of a 2D game engine in three parts. Part 1 covers the low-level API class by class. You ll see how to abstract lower level functionality and design a set of classes that interact seamlessly with each other. You ll learn how to draw objects, play sounds, render text, and more. In Part 2, you ll review the mid-level API that is responsible for drawing the game, loading resources, and managing user input. Lastly in Part 3, you ll build two games from the ground up following a step-by-step process using the 2D game engine you just reviewed.

On completing this book, you ll have a solid foundation in video game engine design and implementation.  You ll gain experience creating games using the engine and have a strong set of tools to create your next great game. 

What You Will Learn

Learn about 2D game engine design and implementation

Get experience with application-level APIs, launching the game, loading resources, settings, processing input, and more

Master creating games by building two games using the engine

Gain experience with cross-platform APIs via access to the game engine in both Java/Swing and C#/Monogame

Study developing games with an SDK-based game engine and simplified tool chain focus on direct control of the code and the game

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those with some programming experience, moderate to advanced, who want to learn how to write video games using modern game engine designs. Users will gain experience needed to work with more advanced game engines that require learning complex software, APIs, and IDEs.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Apress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 148427038X
• ISBN 13: 9781484270387
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 408
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile