Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB .NET

✍ Scribed by David Weller, Alexandre Santos Lobão, Ellen Hatton (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This highly-anticipated title provides a clear introduction to game programming for VB .NET programmers! Microsoft insiders have written an easy-to-read guide, so you can start programming games quickly. This book even includes an introduction to Managed DirectX9, and other advanced .NET features, like animation and sounds.

Code examples are actually complete games, and include .Nettrix , .Netterpillars, River Pla.NET, Magic KindergarteN., D-iNfEcT, Nettrix II (for the Pocket PC), and a version of the classic game, Spacewars.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-xxvi
.Nettrix: GDI+ and Collision Detection....Pages 1-64
.Netterpillars: Artificial Intelligence and Sprites....Pages 65-139
Managed DirectX First Steps: Direct3D Basics and DirectX vs. GDI+....Pages 141-206
Space Donuts: Sprites Revisited....Pages 207-243
Spacewar!....Pages 245-269
Spacewar3D: Meshes and Buffers and Textures, Oh My!....Pages 271-326
Adding Visual Effects to Spacewar3D....Pages 327-341
Taking Your Next Steps....Pages 343-350
Porting .Nettrix to Pocket PC....Pages 351-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-414

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems