Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming

By Kevin Tieskoetter

A hands-on, step-by-step guide that covers game-writing techniques for the Macintosh. The CD contains all the sample code presented throughout the text, and a fully-functional flight simulator and 3D maze game.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157169059X
• ISBN13: 9781571690593
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Waite Group Pr
• Length: 793 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A good reference point

The book is easy enough to read, even though the maths is complex. I found it a great reference for the parts about graphics, offscreen bitmaps, sprites and optimisation, and even for basic things like menus and windows. The parts about 3D algorithms aren't very useful, especially the texture mapping which doesn't look too convincing. Nothing about hardware acceleration (on the other hand, it's not a new book). Otherwise, it's a great reference lookup for new game programmers.

Great book for toolbox begginners.

I had tried to read many a reference for the toolbox but found that there were a 1000 pages telling you about the code and only one page with the code. This book made it so apparent what the code was!It took a little messing around to figure out exactly how to compile a toolbox related file in codewarrior though. I just asked a friend and had it going in ten minutes!

Great book for all mac games programmers

This book is excellent reading for anyone considering writing games for the mac, especially using fast 3D graphics and optimization techniques. Also covers (briefly) sound, input devices and basic sprites. Some reasonably complex maths involved. However, it is clear and comprehensive, a must buy for all considering creating mac games. Example code is very usefull.

Excellent Mac Game Programming Overview

Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming is an Excellent overview of what is needed to program a macintosh game program. Basic game graphics to simple 3d enviroments are covered.

Black Art of MacIntosh Game Programming

Black Art of MacIntosh Game Programming is a grate book to use to continue your eduication of game programing on the mac.