Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB .NET

By: David Weller (Editor), Alexandre Santos Lobao (Editor), Ellen Hatton (Editor)

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BACK A FEW YEARS AGO I HAD AN IDEA. What if I could make the power of the DirectX API available to the developers who were going to be using the new set of languages and common language runtime that Microsoft was developing? The idea was intriguing, and opening up a larger portion of the world to DirectX was a goal I was only happy to endorse. - Besides, what developer doesn't want to write games? It seems that at least once a week I am answering questions directly regard- ing the performance of managed code, and Managed DirectX in particular. One of the more common questions I hear is some paraphrase of "Is it as fast as unmanaged code?" Obviously in a general sense it isn't. Regardless of the quality of the Managed DirectXAPI, the fact remains that it still has to run through the same DirectXAPI that the unmanaged code does. There is naturally going to be a slight overhead for this, but does it have a large negative impact on the majority of applications? Of course it doesn't. No one is suggesting that one of the top-of-the-line polygon pushing games coming out today (say, Half Life 2 or Doom 3) should be written in Managed DirectX., but that doesn't mean that there isn't a whole slew of games that could be. I'll get more to that in just a few moments.

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Foreword	p. xi
About the Authors	p. xiii
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xv
Credits	p. xvi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
.Nettrix: GDI+ and Collision Detection	p. 1
Basic GDI+ Concepts	p. 2
Performing Graphic Operations with a Graphics Object	p. 4
Creating Gradients	p. 7
Collision Detection	p. 8
Optimizing the Number of Calculations	p. 18
Extending the Algorithms to Add a Third Dimension	p. 22
The Game Proposal	p. 23
The Game Project	p. 25
The Coding Phase	p. 31
Final Version: Coding the GameField Class and the Game Engine	p. 51
Adding the Final Touches	p. 60
Summary	p. 64
Book Reference	p. 64
.Netterpillars: Artificial Intelligence and Sprites	p. 65
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 66
Artificial Intelligence	p. 69
Sprites and Performance Boosting Tricks	p. 76
The Game Proposal	p. 84
The Game Project	p. 86
The Coding Phase	p. 99
Adding the Final Touches	p. 135
Summary	p. 139
Managed DirectX First Steps: Direct3D Basics and DirectX vs. GDI+	p. 141
DirectX Overview	p. 142
3-D Coordinate Systems and Projections	p. 153
Drawing Primitives and Texture	p. 160
The Application Proposal	p. 168
The Application Project	p. 169
The Coding Phase	p. 170
Adding the Final Touches	p. 203
More About DirectX and GDI+	p. 205
Summary	p. 206
Acknowledgments	p. 206
Space Donuts: Sprites Revisited	p. 207
Sprites	p. 208
Space Donuts	p. 223
Summary	p. 243
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Spacewar!	p. 245
About Spacewar	p. 246
Methodology: Challenges of Working with Someone Else's Code	p. 248
Using the Application Wizard	p. 248
Direct Play	p. 261
Summary	p. 269
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Spacewar3D: Meshes and Buffers and Textures, Oh My!	p. 271
DirectX Basics: The Application Wizard Revisited	p. 272
Spacewar3D	p. 284
The Game Proposal	p. 285
The Game Project	p. 285
Summary	p. 326
Acknowledgments	p. 326
Adding Visual Effects to Spacewar3D	p. 327
Point Sprites	p. 327
Step 10: Adding Thrust Effects to Spacewar3D	p. 329
Step 11: Adding Explosion Effects to Spacewar3D	p. 337
Step 12: Adding a Shockwave Effect to Spacewar3D	p. 339
Summary	p. 341
Epilogue: Taking Your Next Steps	p. 343
Moving On	p. 343
Habits to Build	p. 344
Things We Neglected to Tell You	p. 348
Happy Trails	p. 350
Bonus Chapter Porting .Nettrix to Pocket PC	p. 351
Programming for Mobile Devices	p. 352
The Game Proposal	p. 356
The Game Project	p. 357
The Coding Phase	p. 358
Adding the Final Touches	p. 368
Summary	p. 369
Suggested Reading	p. 371
Motivations in Games	p. 375
How Do I Make Games?	p. 381
Guidelines for Developing Successful Games	p. 391
Index	p. 399
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