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  title info:
    title: Learning C# by Programming Games
  name:
    name part: van Toll, Wouter.
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      role term: creator
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  name:
    name part: Egges, Arjan.
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      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: Fokker, Jeroen D.
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      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 512 p. 66 illus., 34 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Developing computer games is a perfect way to learn how to program in modern programming languages. This book teaches how to program in C# through the creation of computer games - and without requiring any previous programming experience. Contrary to most programming books, van Toll, Egges, and Fokker do not organize the presentation according to programming language constructs, but instead use the structure and elements of computer games as a framework. For instance, there are chapters on dealing with player input, game objects, game worlds, game states, levels, animation, physics, and intelligence. The reader will be guided through the development of four games showing the various aspects of game development. Starting with a simple shooting game, the authors move on to puzzle games consisting of multiple levels, and conclude the book by developing a full-fledged platform game with animation, game physics, and intelligent enemies. They show a number of commonly used techniques in games, such as drawing layers of sprites, rotating, scaling and animating sprites, dealing with physics, handling interaction between game objects, and creating pleasing visual effects. At the same time, they provide a thorough introduction to C# and object-oriented programming, introducing step by step important programming concepts such as loops, methods, classes, collections, and exception handling. This second edition includes a few notable updates. First of all, the book and all example programs are now based on the library MonoGame 3.6, instead of the obsolete XNA Game Studio. Second, instead of explaining how the example programs work, the text now invites readers to write these programs themselves, with clearly marked reference points throughout the text. Third, the book now makes a clearer distinction between general (C#) programming concepts and concepts that are specific to game development. Fourth, the most important programming concepts are now summarized in convenient "Quick …
  table of contents: 1 Building Your First Game Application -- 2 What Is Programming? -- 3 Game Programming Basics -- 4 Creating a Game World -- 5 Showing what the Player is Doing -- 6 Reacting to Player Input -- 7 Basic Game Objects -- 8 Communication and Interaction Between Objects -- 9 A Limited Number of Lives -- 10 Organizing Game Objects -- 11 Finishing the Game -- 12 Dealing with Different Screen Sizes -- 13 Arrays and Collections -- 14 Game Objects in a Structure -- 15 Gameplay Programming -- 16 Finishing the Game -- 17 Better Game State Management -- 18 User Interfaces and Menus -- 19 Loading Levels from Files -- 20 Gameplay Programming -- 21 Finishing the Game -- 22 Creating the Main Game Structure -- 23 Animated Game Objects -- 24 Game Physics -- 25 Intelligent Enemies -- 26 Finishing the Game.
  note: by Wouter van Toll, Arjan Egges, Jeroen D. Fokker.
  subject:
    topic: Computer programming
  subject:
    topic: Programming languages (Electronic computers)
  subject:
    topic: Personal computers
  subject:
    topic: Multimedia information systems
  subject:
    topic: Programming Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
  subject:
    topic: Personal Computing
  subject:
    topic: Multimedia Information Systems
  classification: QA76.6-76.66
  classification: 005.11
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    record creation date: 191121
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