Programming Linux Games

Deliver console-rocking sound, music, and video effects to your games with this all-in-one toolkit for C++ game programmers. Load the CDand experience Microsoft's Digital Media developers at play, learning how to use Microsoft DirectX 9 technologies to produce amazing, professional-quality effects. From mixing and moving sounds around a 3-D space to taking video to the third dimension, you get expert insights and performance tips direct from the developers, along with a game-ready arsenal of code, copyright-free audio and video, and ready-to-use effects on CD. It's everything you need to fuel your creativityand take your game players to spectacular new 3-D worlds!Discover how to: Mix mono, stereo, and 3D soundand add special effects Create reverb and...

This book covers all the major aspects and theory behind creating a fully functional network game, from setting up a stable MySQL backed-end database for storing player information to developing a reusable TCP/IP network library for online games as well as developing web-based server interfaces....

The how-to guide for creating computer games! Intermediate and advanced programmers learn how to use object-oriented programming to write computer games.-- Provides a quick overview of Windows programming with Borland C++ and OWL-- Includes a disk containing shareware Windows games as well as source code and executable versions of Spuzzle and Blockade...