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Beginning C++ Game Programming

You're reading from   Beginning C++ Game Programming Learn to program with C++ by building fun games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648572
Length 746 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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John Horton John Horton
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: C++, SFML, Visual Studio, and Starting the First Game 2. Chapter 2: Variables, Operators, and Decisions – Animating Sprites FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: C++ Strings and SFML Time – Player Input and HUD 4. Chapter 4: Loops, Arrays, Switches, Enumerations, and Functions – Implementing Game Mechanics 5. Chapter 5: Collisions, Sound, and End Conditions – Making the Game Playable 6. Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming – Starting the Pong Game 7. Chapter 7: Dynamic Collision Detection and Physics – Finishing the Pong Game 8. Chapter 8: SFML Views – Starting the Zombie Shooter Game 9. Chapter 9: C++ References, Sprite Sheets, and Vertex Arrays 10. Chapter 10: Pointers, the Standard Template Library, and Texture Management 11. Chapter 11: Collision Detection, Pickups, and Bullets 12. Chapter 12: Layering Views and Implementing the HUD 13. Chapter 13: Sound Effects, File I/O, and Finishing the Game 14. Chapter 14: Abstraction and Code Management – Making Better Use of OOP 15. Chapter 15: Advanced OOP – Inheritance and Polymorphism 16. Chapter 16: Building Playable Levels and Collision Detection 17. Chapter 17: Sound Spatialization and the HUD 18. Chapter 18: Particle Systems and Shaders 19. Chapter 19: Game Programming Design Patterns – Starting the Space Invaders ++ Game 20. Chapter 20: Game Objects and Components 21. Chapter 21: File I/O and the Game Object Factory 22. Chapter 22: Using Game Objects and Building a Game 23. Chapter 23: Before You Go... 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we discovered the basics of OOP, such as how to code and use a class, including making use of encapsulation to control how code outside of our classes can access the member variables, but only to the extent and in the manner that we want it to. This is just like SFML classes, which allow us to create and use Sprite and Text instances, but only in the way they were designed to be used.

Don't concern yourself too much if some of the details around OOP and classes are not entirely clear. The reason I say this is because we will spend the rest of this book coding classes and the more we use them, the clearer they will become.

Furthermore, we have a working bat and a HUD for our Pong game.

In the next chapter, we will code the Ball class and get it bouncing around the screen. We will then be able to add collision detection and finish the game.

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