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    Contents

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 What Is Game Programming Really Like?

    The Good

    The Job

    The Gamers

    Your Coworkers

    The Tools—Software Development Kits (SDKs)

    The Hardware

    The Platforms

    The Show

    The Hard Work

    Game Programming Is Freaking Hard

    Bits and Pieces

    That’s Not a Bug—That’s a Feature

    The Tools

    The Dark Side

    Hitting a Moving Target

    Crunch Mode (and Crunch Meals)

    Bah Humbug

    Operating System Hell

    Fluid Nature of Employment

    It’s All Worth It, Right?

    Chapter 2 What’s in a Game?

    Game Architecture

    Applying the Game Architecture

    Application Layer

    Reading Input

    File Systems and Resource Caching

    Managing Memory

    Initialization, the Main Loop, and Shutdown

    Other Application Layer Code

    Game Logic

    Game State and Data Structures

    Physics and Collision

    Events

    Process Manager

    Command Interpreter


      

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