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SFML Blueprints

By : Barbier

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SFML Blueprints

3.8 (4)

By: Barbier

Overview of this book

This book is for developers who have knowledge of the basics of the SFML library and its capabilities in 2D game development. Minimal experience with C++ is required.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Preparing the Environment

1. Preparing the Environment

C++11

SFML

Installation of a C++11 compiler

Installing CMake

Installing SFML 2.2

Summary

2. General Game Architecture, User Inputs, and Resource Management

2. General Game Architecture, User Inputs, and Resource Management

General structure of a game

Managing user inputs

Keeping track of resources

Summary

3. Making an Entire 2D Game

3. Making an Entire 2D Game

Turning our application to an Asteroid clone

Modifying our application

Designing our game

Building a Tetris clone

Summary

4. Playing with Physics

4. Playing with Physics

A physics engine – késako?

Physics engine comparing game engine

Using Box2D

Pairing Box2D and SFML

Adding physics to a game

Summary

5. Playing with User Interfaces

5. Playing with User Interfaces

What is a GUI?

Adding a menu to the game

Using SFGUI

Summary

6. Boost Your Code Using Multithreading

6. Boost Your Code Using Multithreading

What is multithreading?

Thread functionality

Adding multithreading to our games

Summary

7. Building a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 1

7. Building a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 1

The goal of the game

Building animations

Building a generic Tile Map

Building an entity system

Building the game logic

Summary

8. Build a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 2, Networking

8. Build a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 2, Networking

Network architectures

Network communication using sockets

Creating a communication protocol

Modifying our game

Adding data persistence to the game

Summary

Index

Index

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Chapter 5. Playing with User Interfaces

In the previous chapters, we have learned how to build some simple games. This chapter will show you how to improve those games by adding a user interface to them. This chapter will cover two different possibilities of user interface:

Creating your own objects
Using a library that already exists–Simple and Fast Graphical User Interface (SFGUI)

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to create simple to complex interfaces to communicate with the player.

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