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C++ Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from C++ Game Development Cookbook

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882722

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

Druhin Mukherjee

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Game Development Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Object-Oriented Approach and Design in Games

3. Data Structures in Game Development

4. Algorithms for Game Development

5. Event-Driven Programming – Making Your First 2D Game

6. Design Patterns for Game Development

7. Organizing and Backing Up

8. AI in Game Development

9. Physics in Game Development

10. Multithreading in Game Development

11. Networking in Game Development

12. Audio in Game Development

13. Tips and Tricks

Index

Installing and integrating Box2D

To be able to work with 2D physics, one great open source physics engine is Box2D. This comes with lots of functions that are common for any 2D game built in, so we do not have to reinvent the wheel and write them again.

Getting ready

You need to have a working Windows machine.

How to do it…

Go through the following steps:

Go to http://box2d.org/.
Browse to http://box2d.org/downloads/.
Download or clone the latest copy from GitHub.
Build the solution in your version of Visual Studio. Some projects may not work, as they were built in different versions of Visual Studio.
If this throws an error, clean the solution, delete the bin folder, and rebuild it.
After the solution rebuilds successfully, run the TestBed projects.
If you can run the application successfully, Box2D has been integrated.

How it works…

Box2D is a physics engine built entirely in C++. As it has given us access to the source code, it means we can build it from scratch as well, and check for ourselves...

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Authors (1)

Druhin Mukherjee

Druhin Mukherjee

Druhin Mukherjee is currently the co-founder and technical Director at GodSpeed Games. He has, over the years, worked with clients such as Lightning Fish Games, Chromativity, Rockstar North, Tag Games, BBC, Dynamo Games, and Codemasters. Druhin has been balancing making games and teaching video game programming to enthusiastic students. He spent 3 years in Auckland, New Zealand as a Senior Lecturer in the Games department at Media Design School. As a passionate games developer, Druhin has been sharing his knowledge on the Internet as blogs and websites. His recently started website for solving game development puzzles has over thousand subscribers. Druhin has collaborated with other writers and published many journals and papers; however, this is his first official effort to write a book.

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