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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

Using sorting techniques to arrange items

Sorting is a way to arrange items in a container. We can arrange them in ascending or descending order. If we have to implement the high score system and leader board of a game, sorting becomes necessary. In the game, the moment a user achieves a score higher than his previous highest score, we should update that value as the current highest score and push it to a local or online leader board. If it's local, we should arrange all the user's previous high scores in descending order and display the top 10 scores. If it is an online leader board, we need to sort all the users' latest high scores and display the result.

Getting ready

To work through this recipe, you will need a machine running Windows. You also need to have a working copy of Visual Studio installed on your Windows machine. No other prerequisites are required.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will find out how easy it is to arrange items in a container using different...

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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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