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.NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0
by Alexandre Santos Lobo and EllenHatton
ISBN:1590590511
Apress 2003 (696 pages)
The authors of this text show how easy it can be to produceinteresting multimedia games using Managed DirectX 9.0 andprogramming with Visual Basic .NET on Everett, the latestversion of Microsoft's Visual Studio.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - .Nettrix: GDI+ and Collision Detection
Chapter 2 - .Netterpillars: Artificial Intelligence and Sprites
Chapter 3 - Managed DirectX First Steps: Direct3D Basics and DirectX vs. GDI+
Chapter 4 - River Pla.Net: Tiled Game Fields, Scrolling, and DirectAudio
Chapter 5 - River Pla.Net II: DirectInput and Writing Text to Screen
Chapter 6 - Magic KindergarteN.: Adventure Games, ADO.NET, and DirectShow
Chapter 7 - Magic KindergarteN. II: Animation Techniques and Speech API
Chapter 8 - .Netterpillars II: Multiplayer Games and Directplay
Chapter 9 -D-iNfEcT: Multithreading, Nonrectangular Windows, and Access toNonmanaged Code
Bonus Chapter Porting .Nettrix to Pocket PC
Appendix A - The State of PC Gaming
Appendix B - Motivations in Games
Appendix C - How Do I Make Games?
Appendix D - Guidelines for Developing Successful Games
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables

ISBN:1590590511
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
Back Cover
Presented in easy-to-understand language, .NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is a must-have title for thosewho want to create out-of-the-ordinary but simple games, but have never had the time to expend reading hard-core game developers books. Lobao and Hatton show how easy it can be to produce interesting multimedia gamesusing Managed DirectX 9.0 and programming with Visual Basic .NET on Everett, the latest version of Microsoft'sVisual Studio. Although their focus is on simplicity, the authors are able to explore all basic concepts withinManaged DirectX 9.0: Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectMusic (using the COM interface), DirectInput (including force-feedback joysticks), DirectShow, and DirectPlay. There are also chapters covering other technologies that can beused for game programming: the Speech API to generate game characters' voices, multithreading, and GDI+ forsimple games. A bonus chapter shows how to port a simple game to Pocket PC. Sample games are presented overtwo chapters throughout the book. The first chapter presents the game with simple features, and the secondchapter extends the game while presenting new concepts. A library of game programming helper classes is alsocreated, step-by-step, in each chapter.
About the Authors
Alexandre Santos Lobo has been a non-professional game developer since 1981, when he got his first computer at12 years of age. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1991, from the University of Braslia. Whenhe was attending the University, he helped to develop a graphics program and a computer graphics language(LAFITH - Hierarchical Animation Language for Three-dimensional Figures), which organizes objects in ahierarchical way and calculates the results of forces over the objects, giving them velocity and acceleration. Thislanguage was presented in many Brazilian conferences, and at the international conference, Compugraphics, inSesimbra, in 1991.In 2000, he published his first book, The Box of Pandora and Other Stories , with short stories.Although he has written many technical articles, this is his first technical book.
Ellen Hatton is currently completing a computer science degree at Edinburgh University. She was exposed tocomputers at a very early age and has been fascinated with them ever since. Her first experience of computergames was playing Dread Dragon Doom, at which she quickly excelled, at the age of 5. She's been hooked ongames ever since.

ISBN:1590590511
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
.NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0ALEXANDRE SANTOS LOBO AND
ELLEN HATTON
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