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Download books file now Free Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Welcome to Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition, the newest edition of the essential, hands-on guide to developing commercial-quality games. Written by two veteran game programmers, the book examines the entire game development process and all the unique challenges associated with creating a game. In this excellent introduction to game architecture, you'll explore all the major subsystems of modern game engines and learn professional techniques used in actual games, as well as Teapot Wars, a game created specifically for this book.
This updated fourth edition uses the latest versions of DirectX and Visual Studio, and it includes expanded chapter coverage of game actors, AI, shader programming, LUA scripting, the C# editor, and other important updates to every chapter. All the code and examples presented have been tested and used in commercial video games, and the book is full of invaluable best practices, professional tips and tricks, and cautionary advice.Books with free ebook downloads available Free Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition
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- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1133776574
- Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 4 edition (February 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Cengage Learning
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00B7RE4GQ
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I have owned three versions of Game Coding Complete (2,3 and now 4) and have always been impressed by the material found in the book that is neglected in nearly every other text of its nature. While many books focus strictly on a specific topic related to game development, such as a rendering API, physics engines or AI, GCC delves into topics that are not as easily researched either in books or online.
While there are a few requisite chapters about rendering, which uses the newest version of DirectX, they are less about teaching you how to use the API and more about how to structure a renderer for a game engine. This is a topic that is all to often overlooked except in game engine books, many of which are of questionable quality. Fortunately, GCC is written in a far more structured manner and these chapters, as well as all of the others, don't feel as though the authors wrote the first solution that came into their minds and the result is a much higher quality book.
While the first few chapters are basic introductions and a bit of design theory, the heart of the book begins in chapter 5. What follows is nearly twenty chapters of topics discussed with a fair amount of detail on subjects that are often missed entirely. This part of the books begins with a lengthly discussion on how to properly start up and shut down your game or game engine. While many books choose to miss any kind of discussion on how to do this in an elegant way, GCC gives it the attention it deserves and it may just be the best chapter in the entire book. Chapters on game actors, input devices (including game pads as well as keyboards/mice) and scripting have seen extensive rewrites from the third edition in order to modernize the code.
Being a self taught game programmer myself I have quite a tall pile of books about the subject, including the previous edition by this author. Out of all the books out there trying to teach how to write a game and a game engine right, this one I feel deliver the knowledge the best out of all I tried so far, with its predecessor being right behind it.
While other books usually fall short, focusing mostly on a single element such as the game engine or the game only, this book takes you step by step through the process of creating the game engine using practical approaches from modern (2012) game industry applications, then follows up with creating a whole simple yet fun game and finishes with an editor for the game you just built. The whole process leaves you with enough knowledge to tackle your own game development with a set of tools to start with.
The chapters are set in order to teach you how to set up each piece of the engine from starting your windows application to reading user input, managing memory, rendering graphics, playing audio and even networking. Personally I enjoyed chapter 6 a lot where the authors explain Component based Actor architecture which feels to be a very simple and instinctive way to describe your in-game entities/actors. By the end of the chapter you should know how to create easy to use XMLs for defining your game objects. (Personally I added a binary read/write conversion for those classes for performance once game editing is done)
Another chapter I enjoyed a lot was chapter 18 "An Introduction to Game AI" where Rez explains many different AI systems all which the reader can choose from to use for specific game implementations, using a lot of examples from previous games he worked on such as The Sims Medieval .
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