PC Game Programming EXplorer: The Easiest Way to Blast through the Mysteries of Game Programming

By Robin Nixon

Book Overview

Provides game programming essentials-from supporting interface devices to fast VGA graphics techniques. Removes the mystery from PC game creation by using step-by-step projects and easy-to-follow technical discussions with numerous illustrations. Includes useful tools to help you write your own games. Develops a complete game and then shows you how to add extensions to it. Shows you how to program the PC at the hardware level to write high-performance graphics. Includes the complete source code for "Alien Alley" an amazing action game with sound effects, music, and great graphics. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883577071
• ISBN13: 9781883577070
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

If you want to actually learn how to write a game. READ THIS

This is a GOOD book. You can actually READ this book, unlike most computer books! The way the chapters build upon each other is great! Chapter 1 teaches you input devices. Once you finish chapter 1 you never have to deal with input devices again! You just re-use the same module! The module you write outputs the same info no matter what the user uses for input! Every chapter is like this! learn it once and then reuse your code!...