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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

Free Chapter

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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered different things, such as creating animations. This class allowed us to display animated characters on screen. Then, we built a Map class that was filled with some entities. We also learned how to use an entity system by creating some components and systems to build our game logic. Finally, we put all the accumulated knowledge together to build a complete game with some artificial intelligence, a user interface, sounds, and animations.

With all this knowledge, you are now able to build any kind of game based on a tile system without too much effort.

In the next chapter, we will turn this game in a multiplayer one by using networking.

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