Learning C# by Programming Games

• Main Authors: Egges, Arjan. (Author), Fokker, Jeroen D. (Author), Overmars, Mark H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Multimedia systems.; Computer Science.; Programming Techniques.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Personal Computing.; Multimedia Information Systems.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36580-5

C# is the language of choice for learning how to program. It is a very well structured object-oriented language and avoids some of the problems of Java.� An excellent free programming environment is available for C#, as well as a game programming framework. And (if necessary) moving from C# to C++ i...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Getting Started
• Building Your First Game Application
• Programming
• Game Programming Basics
• Creating a Game World
• Part II Creating Colorful Games
• Knowing what the Player is Doing
• Reacting to Player Input
• Basic Game Objects
• Adding Interaction
• A Limited Number of Lives
• Organizing Game Objects
• Finishing the Game
• Part III Structures and Patterns
• Collections of Game Objects
• Fullscreen Games
• Game Objects in a Structure
• Redesigning the Game World
• Gameplay Programming
• Game States
• Finishing the Game
• Part IV Making Your Games Appealing
• Sprite Sheets
• Menus and Settings
• Game State Management
• Loading Levels from Files
• Pairing the Penguins
• Finishing the Game
• Part V Animation and Complexity
• Creating the Main Game Structure
• Animation
• Game Physics
• Intelligent Enemies
• Adding Player Interaction
• Finishing the Game.