Build Your Own PC Game in Seven Easy Steps: Using Visual Basic

by Scott Palmer

Build Your Own PC Game in Seven Easy Steps teaches you the skills youneed to start programming good PC games for Windows(TM). Step by step, you'llsee how to pull a game together. The first step is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201489112
• ISBN13: 9780201489118
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good for Beginners

I'm part way thru the book, and so far its good for beginners. Even tho it is dated (1996), most of the concepts are valid. As a programming teacher, one thing does irritate me: the persistent misuse of the word "programming" when the author means coding. Programming is creating the logic, coding is translating that logic into code. Many students come into class able to code, but almost none come in able to program -- that is, create the logic. They think sitting down and making spaghetti code is programming. The author, as many authors and teachers do, promotes this confusion with his misuse of terms. This lapse makes it so much harder for novices to learn to program. But I was glad to see him emphasize "plan", even with the terms confused. Otherwise, good book for basic game concepts.

A helpful, easy-to-use resource.

"Build Your Own PC GAme in Seven Easy Steps Using Visual BASIC" is an impressive title and worthy of many a purchase. Though it requires use of the as-of-present somewhat dated VB3 or VB4, it nonetheless provides a helpful perspective on game development in Visual BASIC. If one owns a copy of VB, it is undoubtedly a enjoyable title and even if one doesn't carry a strong interest in game programming it provides for a refreshing event. Though it lacks in some areas, such as consistent mispelling\errors, and can produce some overly-simplistic samples, it nonetheless is a good sprint that will allow one to develop quality text-based programs, graphic arcade style fighteres, or graphic RPG style adventures. Highly recommended!

great game programming book

Try this book. It's a great way to learn to make your own games

I enjoyed reading and using this book.

I purchased this book a couple of years ago.I found it really helpful as an introduction to using multimedia content to create games in Visual Basic.The code was helpful as a template, not only using the example games, but by using my own multimedia files, to plug into the code examples I was able to produce some fairly nice looking (and sounding) games.The step to the windows API was easy.