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Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Chapter 1 What Is Game Programming Really Like?

Chapter 2 What’s in a Game?

Game Architecture

Applying the Game Architecture

Application Layer

Game View for the Human Player

Game Views for AI Agents

Networked Game Architecture

Do I Have to Use DirectX?

Other Bits and Pieces

Further Reading

Chapter 3 Coding Tidbits and Style That Saved Me

Chapter 4 Building Your Game

Chapter 5 Game Initialization and Shutdown

Chapter 6 Game Actors and Component Architecture

Chapter 7 Controlling the Main Loop

Chapter 8 Loading and Caching Game Data

Chapter 9 Programming Input Devices

Chapter 10 User Interface Programming

Chapter 11 Game Event Management

Chapter 12 Scripting with Lua

Chapter 13 Game Audio

Chapter 14 3D Graphics Basics

Chapter 15 3D Vertex and Pixel Shaders

Chapter 16 3D Scenes

Chapter 17 Collision and Simple Physics

Chapter 18 An Introduction to Game AI

Chapter 19 Network Programming for Multiplayer Games

Chapter 20 Introduction to Multiprogramming

Chapter 21 A Game of Teapot Wars!

Chapter 22 A Simple Game Editor in C#

Chapter 23 Debugging and Profiling Your Game

Chapter 24 Driving to the Finish

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Chapter 2 by Mike McShaffry What's in a Game?