JAVA GAME PROGRAMMING

by Neos Thanh

This book brings for you all of knowledge you need to start game programming from beginning by JAVA language.
Just by 4 LESSONS, you can analysis easily a game include:
- actor, action, game scenarios
- resources(image, sound, animation...).
- handle thread and data synchornation

There are many examples & case studys for practice of programming. Let's enjoy!
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A little in this book
LESSON 1: Introduction - The World Of Bouncing Balls
1. Getting Started with One Bouncing Ball
2. Bouncing Ball in Object-Oriented Design
3. Collision Detection and Response
4. Timing Control
5. Control Panel
6. Many Balls of Different Sizes
LESSON 2: Java Game Programming. 2D Graphics, Java2D and Images
1. Revisit java.awt.Graphics for Custom Drawing
1.1 Template for Custom Drawing
2. Java 2D API & Graphics2D
2.1 java.awt.Graphics2D
2.2 Affine Transform (java.awt.geom.AffineTransform)
2.3 Geometric Primitives and Shapes
2.4 Point2D (Advanced)
2.5 Interface java.awt.Shape
2.6 Stroke, Paint and Composite Attributes
3. Working with Bitmap Images
3.1 Loading Images
3.2 drawImage()
3.3 Image Affine Transforms
3.4 Image Filtering Operations
3.5 Animating Image Frames
4. High Performance Graphics
4.1 Full-Screen Display Mode (JDK 1.4)
4.2 Rendering to the Display & Double Buffering
4.3 Splash Screen
LESSON 3: Playing Sound
1. Sampled Audio
1.1 javax.sound.Clip
1.2 Playing Sound Effects for Java Games
1.3 (Optional) javax.sound.SourceDataLine
2. MIDI Synthesized Sound
3. MP3 & Java Media Framework (JMF)
LESSON 4: Game Engine & FrameWork
1. Custom Drawing
2. Init and Shutdown
3. Starting the Game Play
4. Controlling the Refresh
5. Game Thread
6. Game States
7. The Complete Java Game Framework
8. Case Study 1: The Snake Game (Part I)
- Game Actor Design
- Enum Snake.Direction
- Collision Detection & Response
9. Snake Game - Part II
9.1 Control Panel
9.2 Menubar
9.3 Playing Sound Effect
10. Two Snakes

114 pages, Paperback

Published October 17, 2017