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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...

Starting the Zombie Arena game engine

In this game, we will need a slightly upgraded game engine in main. We will have an enumeration called state, which will track what the current state of the game is. Then, throughout main, we can wrap parts of our code so that different things happen in different states.

When we created the project, Visual Studio created a file for us called ZombieArena.cpp. This will be the file that contains our main function and the code that instantiates and controls all our classes.

We begin with the now-familiar main function and some include directives. Note the addition of an include directive for the Player class.

Add the following code to the ZombieArena.cpp file:

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
#include "Player.h"
using namespace sf;
int main()
{
    return 0;
}

The previous code has nothing new in it except that the #include "Player.h" line means we can now use the Player class within our code...