This book doesnt teach you java.However if you know some java but not how to create a game, you will find this book usefull. Thou the games described are simple, they do teach you the basics of 2D (and some 3D) game programming.If you remember some mathematics it helps but is not needed.Most of the formulas used are well explained.This makes it easy to write the same games in other languages like C,C++,basic.... I am a litle...
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Most game programming books focus on teaching experienced game programmers the advanced tricks of the trade. This book fills a gap. A variety of game types are explained with small easy to digest code examples. It's not the authors' purpose to teach you Java; something they make clear from the start. The focus of the book is game design. Those who program in other languages can benefit from the book after familiarizing...
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This book was exactly what I hoped it would be. I've been learning Java for the last couple months in my spare time and was looking for something interesting to do with my new skills. The numerous examples in the book are well written and thoroughly explained. But the real bonus was the straight-forward explanations of game design and techniques. I even gained some better insight into how to structure an object-oriented...
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Now, this is one of those books that I can say I'm glad to have in my collection of game programming books. I'll just put it next to my Black Art Of VB Game Programming, excellent. An excellent resource for game programming since it goes deep into the explaination of game design, game development, and down-to-earth explainations of the example code. The only gripe about this book is that you really do need some basic...
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The book covers standard topics from computer science connected with Game Programming (physics modelling, 3D geometry...) and their Java/object oriented implementations. The book is well organized and has lots of examples and instant code on the CD. However, this book doesn't fit in standard "for Dummies" concept since previous Java knowledge/experience is a must. The authors tried to help a little bit putting additional...
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