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C++ Game Development By Example

By : Siddharth Shekar
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C++ Game Development By Example

By: Siddharth Shekar

Overview of this book

Although numerous languages are currently being used to develop games, C++ remains the standard for fabricating expert libraries and tool chains for game development. This book introduces you to the world of game development with C++. C++ Game Development By Example starts by touching upon the basic concepts of math, programming, and computer graphics and creating a simple side-scrolling action 2D game. You'll build a solid foundation by studying basic game concepts such as creating game loops, rendering 2D game scenes using SFML, 2D sprite creation and animation, and collision detection. The book will help you advance to creating a 3D physics puzzle game using modern OpenGL and the Bullet physics engine. You'll understand the graphics pipeline, which entails creating 3D objects using vertex and index buffers and rendering them to the scene using vertex and fragment shaders. Finally, you'll create a basic project using the Vulkan library that'll help you get to grips with creating swap chains, image views, render passes, and frame buffers for building high-performance graphics in your games. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready with 3 compelling projects created with SFML, the Vulkan API, and OpenGL, and you'll be able take your game and graphics programming skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Basic Concepts
4
Section 2: SFML 2D Game Development
8
Section 3: Modern OpenGL 3D Game Development
12
Section 4: Rendering 3D Objects with Vulkan

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how we can add collision detection between the game objects, and then we finished the game loop by adding controls and scoring. Using the font loading library FreeType, we loaded the TrueType font into our game to add scoring text to the game. Finally, to top it all off, we added lighting to the scene by adding the Phong lighting model to the objects.

There is still a lot that can be added graphically to add more realism to our game, such as framebuffers that add postprocessing effects. We could also add particle effects such as dust and rain. To find out more, I would highly recommend learnopengl.com, as it is an amazing source if you wish to learn more about OpenGL.

In the next chapter, we will start exploring the Vulkan Rendering API and look at how it is different from OpenGL.