C++ Games Programming [Paperback]

Al Stevens (Author), Stan Trujillo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1995

A guide to the theory behind game design which shows games programmers how to use the powerful tools available in the C++ programming language to build games for MS DOS computers. The accompanying CD-ROM includes Theatrix, a C++ class library for creating games as well as modelling software, sound files and rendering software. The book focuses on basic games techniques, such as high-speed graphics and 3D modelling, and shows programmers how to create games and games toolkits.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: M & T Books (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155851449X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558514492
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,343,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a good intro...just out dated, January 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: C++ Games Programming (Paperback)

I wouldn't be that hard on it. But a better choice woul be Andre LaMothe's, Games Programming for Dummies. This is out dated and uses costly libraries

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A 360 page commercial for "Theatrix", March 21, 1998

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Adam Gerber ([e-mail]) (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: C++ Games Programming (Paperback)

This is simply not a programming book. It contains some pretty pictures, some clear writing, and a lot of code. The only problem is that none of these are aimed to help someone learn to program games in C++. Instead this book teaches you to use Theatrix, a library Stevens and (primarily, I believe) Trujillo have devised which gives you the ability to program "killer DOS games" (it only compiles under Borland C++ 4.5 so, if you don't have it, this book is even more useless). Additionally, the nature of this book should be to teach. As is seen with many programming books (especially DirectX and other Windows books) the author thinks programmers simply want a quick and easy way to get these features into their programs. The majority of intelligent programmers want to understand what's going into their programs. This is a different discussion, however. To summarize, do not buy this book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just to even things out, January 8, 1999

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Dave (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: C++ Games Programming (Paperback)

In my previous review of this book some how I made the mistake of giving it a 5-star rating when I meant to give it 1 star (I would have gone lower than 1 if they would let us). I'm just submitting this review to lower the average rating of the book so that nobody looks at it and thinks that this book might actually be good.