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C++ Game Development By Example

By : Siddharth Shekar

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C++ Game Development By Example

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By: Siddharth Shekar

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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.

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Section 1: Basic Concepts

C++ Concepts

Program basics

Summary

Mathematics and Graphics Concepts

3D coordinate systems

Vectors

Matrices

GLM OpenGL mathematics

OpenGL data types

Space transformations

Render pipeline

Summary

Section 2: SFML 2D Game Development

Setting Up Your Game

An overview of SFML

Downloading SFML and configuring Visual Studio

Creating a window

Drawing shapes

Adding sprites

Keyboard input

Handing player movement

Summary

Creating Your Game

Starting afresh

Creating the Hero class

Creating the Enemy class

Adding enemies

Creating the Rocket class

Collision detection

Summary

Finalizing Your Game

Finishing the Gameloop and adding scoring

Adding text

Adding audio

Adding player animations

Summary

Section 3: Modern OpenGL 3D Game Development

Getting Started with OpenGL

What is OpenGL?

Creating our first OpenGL project

Summary

Building on the Game Objects

Creating the MeshRenderer class

Creating the TextureLoader class

Adding Bullet Physics

Adding rigid bodies

Summary

Enhancing Your Game with Collision, Loops, and Lighting

Adding a RigidBody name

Adding an enemy

Moving the enemy

Checking collision

Adding keyboard controls

Game loop and scoring

Adding lighting

Summary

Section 4: Rendering 3D Objects with Vulkan

Getting Started with Vulkan

About Vulkan

Configuring Visual Studio

Vulkan validation layers and extensions

Vulkan instances

The Vulkan Context class

Creating the window surface

Picking a physical device and creating a logical device

Summary

Preparing the Clear Screen

Creating SwapChain

Creating Renderpass

Using render targets and framebuffers

Creating CommandBuffer

Beginning and ending Renderpass

Creating the clear screen

Summary

Creating Object Resources

Updating the Mesh class for Vulkan

Creating the ObjectBuffers class

Creating the Descriptor class

Creating the SPIR-V shader binary

Summary

Drawing Vulkan Objects

Preparing the GraphicsPipeline class

The ObjectRenderer class

Changes to the VulkanContext class

The Camera class

Drawing the object

Synchronizing the object

Summary

So, this is the final summary of this book. In this book, we journeyed from creating a basic game in Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML), which uses OpenGL for rendering, to showing how a rendering API fits into the whole scheme when making a game.

We then created a complete physics-based game from the ground up, using our own mini game engine. Apart from just drawing objects using the high-level OpenGL graphics API, we also added bullet physics to take care of game physics and contact detection between game objects. We also added some text rendering to make the score visible to the player, and we also learned about basic lighting to do lighting calculations for our small scene in order to make the scene a little more interesting.

Finally, we moved on to the Vulkan rendering API, which is a low-level graphics library. In comparison to OpenGL, which we used to make...

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