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Beginning C++ Game Programming - Second Edition

By : John Horton
Book Image

Beginning C++ Game Programming - Second Edition

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

The second edition of Beginning C++ Game Programming is updated and improved to include the latest features of Visual Studio 2019, SFML, and modern C++ programming techniques. With this book, you’ll get a fun introduction to game programming by building five fully playable games of increasing complexity. You’ll learn to build clones of popular games such as Timberman, Pong, a Zombie survival shooter, a coop puzzle platformer and Space Invaders. The book starts by covering the basics of programming. You’ll study key C++ topics, such as object-oriented programming (OOP) and C++ pointers, and get acquainted with the Standard Template Library (STL). The book helps you learn about collision detection techniques and game physics by building a Pong game. As you build games, you’ll also learn exciting game programming concepts such as particle effects, directional sound (spatialization), OpenGL programmable shaders, spawning objects, and much more. Finally, you’ll explore game design patterns to enhance your C++ game programming skills. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to build your own games with exciting features from scratch
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Chapter 23: Before You Go...

Drawing the player and other sprites

Before we add the code to move the player and use all of our new sprites, let's draw them. We are doing it this way so that as we add code to update/change/move them, we will be able to see what is happening.

Add the following highlighted code to draw the four new sprites:

// Draw the tree
window.draw(spriteTree);
// Draw the player
window.draw(spritePlayer);
// Draw the axe
window.draw(spriteAxe);
// Draw the flying log
window.draw(spriteLog);
// Draw the gravestone
window.draw(spriteRIP);
// Draw the bee
window.draw(spriteBee);

The preceding code passes our four new sprites, one after the other, to the draw function.

Run the game and you will see our new sprites in the scene:

We are really close to a working game now. The next task is to write some code to allow the player to control what happens.