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SFML Game Development By Example

You're reading from SFML Game Development By Example Create and develop exciting games from start to finish using SFML

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785287343

Length 522 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Raimondas Pupius

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. It's Alive! It's Alive! – Setup and First Program FREE CHAPTER

2. Give It Some Structure – Building the Game Framework

3. Get Your Hands Dirty – What You Need to Know

4. Grab That Joystick – Input and Event Management

5. Can I Pause This? – Application States

6. Set It in Motion! – Animating and Moving around Your World

7. Rediscovering Fire – Common Game Design Elements

8. The More You Know – Common Game Programming Patterns

9. A Breath of Fresh Air – Entity Component System Continued

10. Can I Click This? – GUI Fundamentals

11. Don't Touch the Red Button! – Implementing the GUI

12. Can You Hear Me Now? – Sound and Music

13. We Have Contact! – Networking Basics

14. Come Play with Us! – Multiplayer Subtleties

Index

Re-implementing the main menu

In order to demonstrate how much easier it is building interactivity in this way, let's re-construct the main menu, starting by creating its .interface file:

Interface MainMenu MainMenu.style 0 0 Immovable NoTitle "Main menu"
Element Label Title 100 0 MainMenuTitle.style "Main menu:"
Element Label Play 0 32 MainMenuLabel.style "PLAY"
Element Label Credits 0 68 MainMenuLabel.style "CREDITS"
Element Label Quit 0 104 MainMenuLabel.style "EXIT"

The interface is set to have zero padding on both axes, be immovable, and have no title bar. All three buttons in this interface, as well as its title, can be represented by labels with different styles. Speaking of which, let's take a look at the style of our main menu interface:

State Neutral
Size 300 150
TextSize 12
Font Main
/State

As you can see, it only defines the most basic attributes and does not aim to be visually responsive by itself. The button label style...

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Authors (1)

Pupius

Pupius

Raimondas Pupius is a game development enthusiast from Lithuania, currently working towards getting a degree in software engineering, as well as a few projects of his own. Having started his unofficial education in this field at the age of 9 and being introduced to video games even prior to that has guided him to this particular career choice, which was only strengthened by the experience earned from his first book SFML Game Development By Example. The ultimate dream is, of course, starting a company of his own and making professional games for a living. His other interests include web development, which was his primary interest before game development, music and linguistics.

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