SFML Game Development: If you've got a firm grasp of C++ with a secret hankering to create a great game, this book is for you. Every practical aspect of programming an interactive game world is here ‚Äì the only real limit is your imagination.

Henrik Valter Vogelius

Jan Haller

Artur Moreira

Henrik Vogelius Hansson

SFML +1 more

€37.99

3.8 (31 Ratings)

Paperback Jun 2013 296 pages 1st Edition

Henrik Valter Vogelius

Jan Haller

Artur Moreira

Henrik Vogelius Hansson

SFML +1 more

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Develop a complete game throughout the book
Learn how to use modern C++11 style to create a full featured game and support for all major operating systems
Fully network your game for awesome multiplayer action
Step-by-step guide to developing your game using C++ and SFML
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Game development comprises the combination of many different aspects such as game logics, graphics, audio, user input, physics and much more. SFML is an Open Source C++ library designed to make game development more accessible, exposing multimedia components to the user through a simple, yet powerful interface. If you are a C++ programmer with a stack of ideas in your head and seeking a platform for implementation, your search ends here.Starting with nothing more than a blank screen, SFML Game Development will provide you with all the guidance you need to create your first fully featured 2D game using SFML 2.0. By the end, you'll have learned the basic principles of game development, including advanced topics such as how to network your game, how to utilize particle systems and much more.SFML Game Development starts with an overview of windows, graphics, and user inputs. After this brief introduction, you will start to get to grips with SFML by building up a world of different game objects, and implementing more and more gameplay features. Eventually, you'll be handling advanced visual effects, audio effects and network programming like an old pro. New concepts are discussed, while the code steadily develops.SFML Game Development will get you started with animations, particle effects and shaders. As well as these fundamental game aspects, we're also covering network programming to the extent where you'll be able to support the game running from two different machines. The most important part, the gameplay implementation with enemies and missiles, will make up the core of our top-scrolling airplane shoot' em-up game!You will learn everything you need in SFML Game Development in order to start with game development and come closer to creating your own game.

Who is this book for?

SFML Game Development addresses ambitious C++ programmers who want to develop their own game. If you have plenty of ideas for an awesome and unique game, but don't know how to start implementing them, then this book is for you. The book assumes no knowledge about SFML or game development, but a solid understanding of C++ is required.

What you will learn

Learn the basics of SFML and render an airplane to the screen.
Create a game world to play in using entities and handle input from the player
Make your game richer with menus, settings, and other states
Implement the foundation for a GUI library
Populate the world with enemies and let them interact
Load resources like textures from the hard drive and learn about resource management
Animate the game object, build a particle system and look behind the scenes of rendering
Add music and sound effects to your game to create an immersive gaming experience
Implement multiplayer over a network to indulge in gameplay over the Internet

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Fredrickson Aug 03, 2013

I had written a pong game in one file. This book helped me to use a time stamp, not delta time, and using a boolean value to create smooth movement based on keys. I look forward to continuing reading.

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Thiago J. A. Maranhao May 22, 2014

Excellent book! My recommendatio is that people first develop a game without reading this book, just to get familiarized with SFML... And then read this book to modularize their code in an excellent model...

JMR Jul 18, 2020

Perfecto para aprender SFML desde cero, y en general, muy bueno para introducirse en el mundo del desarrollo de video juegos. A lo largo del libro el lector desarrolla un video juego mientras se va introduciendo en los los conceptos y en la biblioteca SFML. El libro supone que el lector cuenta ya experiencia previa con C++ aunque explica algunas características introducidas en C++11.

Willi Nov 15, 2013

A while ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing. They were looking for “SFML professionals” to review a book they had published and I assume my activity on the SFML forums and bug tracker convinced them I fit the bill. So I got a free sample and a request to review it. I don’t get anything except the ebook out of this.With that out of the way, let’s talk about the book! It’s aptly called SFML Game Development and is about exactly that. So, what is SFML? It’s the cross-platform Simple and Fast Multimedia Library for C++ that lets you easily create windows, handle their events, do 2D graphics (while allowing you to do 3D graphics using OpenGL), sound, networking and multithreading. I’ve used it in numerous small projects and some medium-sized ones and would recommend anyone starting out making games in C++ to use it. I may personally be switching over to Qt because it’s more powerful, but it’s hardly as Simple and Fast so I don’t recommend it to beginners.So that’s SFML. You may want to use it. The book aims to teach you how. What it does not teach you is C++, and rightly so, because that’s a topic worthy of its own book, and sure enough there are plenty. (I don’t know any beginner’s books on C++ though since I’ve mostly learned through mentors so I can’t recommend any. Once you’re intermediate check out Scott Meyers.) Well, that’s not entirely true. C++ recently received a much appreciated makeover, C++11 (as in 2011). A lot of cool new features were added and the book introduces some of them where it makes sense, explaining what they do and why they’re useful. I really liked that since I had not previously looked into C++11 in depth.But I liked the rest of the book as well. It iteratively adds onto the same game (a Shmup), resulting in a playable prototype at the end of each chapter. All of SFML’s major components are used and explained, but you could just read the API documentation to learn about those. No, the important thing is that you learn how to build a game with them: Yes, just loading a texture is fairly simple, but how do you manage all the textures in your level? Drawing a sprite is easy, but what’s a reasonable way of storing them for easy manipulation? How do you make the keys customizable? How do you manage multiple states like menus, the game itself and a pause screen? The book’s so helpful because it answers these questions in addition to teaching SFML.One thing to keep in mind is that there are often multiple solutions to a given problem. When the book presented Entity hierarchies as the way to go I thought to myself: “Yes, they work for simple games like this one, but once the hierarchy grows you run into all kinds of trouble. A component-based system might be better in some cases.” But then sure enough the next paragraph explained that hierarchies aren’t the only way and mentioned component-based systems as one alternative. And that’s not the only place where the book mentions alternatives, there are multiple links to further material for those interested. Being aware of ones limits is important and this book certainly is aware of them and makes you aware, too. Take shaders, for example: It explains them on a high level but does not go into explaining the rendering pipeline, that’s simply outside of the book’s scope, and that’s okay since it’s open about it.So in conclusion what makes this book valuable is not that it teaches you how to use SFML, but how to program a game with it. And it’s also a nice introduction to some of C++11. If you know C++ and want to make games with it, this is probably the book for you.

B. W. Jun 20, 2014

Das Framework wird gut erklärt und mit ausführlichen Beispielen vorgestellt. Der Rahmen des Buches ist gut gewählt; es sollte nach der Lektüre kein Problem sein, mit dem Wissen aus dem Buch eigene Spiele zu schreiben. Vor allem gibt der Autor auch einen gutes Beispiel dafür, wie ein Spiel von der Architektur her aufgebaut werden kann, sodass diese aus dem Buch für andere Spiele nachgebaut und wiederverwendet werden kann.

SFML Game Development: If you've got a firm grasp of C++ with a secret hankering to create a great game, this book is for you. Every practical aspect of programming an interactive game world is here ‚Äì the only real limit is your imagination.

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