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Beginning C++ Game Programming

You're reading from   Beginning C++ Game Programming Learn to program with C++ by building fun games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648572
Length 746 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: C++, SFML, Visual Studio, and Starting the First Game FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Variables, Operators, and Decisions – Animating Sprites 3. Chapter 3: C++ Strings and SFML Time – Player Input and HUD 4. Chapter 4: Loops, Arrays, Switches, Enumerations, and Functions – Implementing Game Mechanics 5. Chapter 5: Collisions, Sound, and End Conditions – Making the Game Playable 6. Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming – Starting the Pong Game 7. Chapter 7: Dynamic Collision Detection and Physics – Finishing the Pong Game 8. Chapter 8: SFML Views – Starting the Zombie Shooter Game 9. Chapter 9: C++ References, Sprite Sheets, and Vertex Arrays 10. Chapter 10: Pointers, the Standard Template Library, and Texture Management 11. Chapter 11: Collision Detection, Pickups, and Bullets 12. Chapter 12: Layering Views and Implementing the HUD 13. Chapter 13: Sound Effects, File I/O, and Finishing the Game 14. Chapter 14: Abstraction and Code Management – Making Better Use of OOP 15. Chapter 15: Advanced OOP – Inheritance and Polymorphism 16. Chapter 16: Building Playable Levels and Collision Detection 17. Chapter 17: Sound Spatialization and the HUD 18. Chapter 18: Particle Systems and Shaders 19. Chapter 19: Game Programming Design Patterns – Starting the Space Invaders ++ Game 20. Chapter 20: Game Objects and Components 21. Chapter 21: File I/O and the Game Object Factory 22. Chapter 22: Using Game Objects and Building a Game 23. Chapter 23: Before You Go... 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Class enumerations

An enumeration is a list of all the possible values in a logical collection. C++ enumerations are a great way of, well, enumerating things. For example, if our game uses variables that can only be in a specific range of values and if those values could logically form a collection or a set, then enumerations are probably appropriate to use. They will make your code clearer and less error-prone.

To declare a class enumeration in C++, we can use these two keywords, enum class, together, followed by the name of the enumeration, followed by the values the enumeration can contain, enclosed in a pair of curly braces {...}.

As an example, examine the following enumeration declaration. Note that it is convention to declare the possible values from the enumeration in uppercase:

enum class zombieTypes {
   REGULAR, RUNNER, 
   CRAWLER, SPITTER, BLOATER 
};

Note that, at this point, we have not declared any instances of zombieType, just...

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