Beginning .NET Game Programming in C#

by David Weller, Alexandre Santos Lobao, Ellen Hatton

* Adapted for C# by key Microsoft Insiders from a previous bestseller--Lead author is the .NET Game evangelist at Microsoft! * An easy-to-read, soup-to-nuts guide that helps you start programming games fast * Packed with code examples that are complete games, Beginning .NET Game Programming in C# includes an introduction to Managed DirectX 9 and is also an introduction to exciting advanced features of .NET, including the Speech API to generate voices, synchronizing mouth animations with generated sounds, the .NET Compact Framework, data access with ADO.NET, collision detection, and artificial intelligence. * Includes complete code listings and applications for all games included in the .Nettrix (a Tetris clone), .Netterpillars (a Snakes clone), River Pla.Net (River Raid clone), Magic KindergarteN., D-iNfEcT, and Nettrix II (for the Pocket PC) as well as a version of the classic game Spacewars and a "Twisty Cube" game that did not appear in the VB .NET version.

752 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 2004

Reviews

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is a perfect of example of what I do not like in my computer programming books:

I like for a book to present its subject in a logical order, using each concept to build upon the previous. This one presented the topics in seemingly random order.

I like for a book to contain small, self-contained code examples which I can write and experiment with to gain a better understanding of the subject. This one breaks one large application into bits and throws the bits randomly at you. Enjoy!