Beginner's Guide to DarkBASIC Game Programming (Game Development) - Softcover

Harbour, Jonathan S.; Smith, Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592000096 ISBN 13: 9781592000098

Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR, 2003

Synopsis

This book teaches how to write games without the distraction of the technical details of DirectX, because DarkBASIC handles the entire game engine allowing the developer to enjoy designing and playing games of his/her own creation.. There are currently no other books on DarkBASIC, so this book will serve as a complete DarkBASIC resource for beginners to advanced programmers..

About this title

From the Author

Source code for the projects in this book may be downloaded from these book resource locations:

• jharbour.com/forum (must create a free account first)

About the Author

Jon Harbour has been programming video games since the 1980s. His first video game system was an Atari 2600 which he played with disassembled on the floor of his room as a kid. He has written on languages and subjects that include: C++, C#, Basic, Java, DirectX, Allegro, Lua, DarkBasic, XNA Game Studio, Pocket PC, Nintendo GBA, and game console hacking. He is the author of Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens, 3rd Edition; Visual C# Game Programming for Teens; Beginning Game Programming, 3rd Edition; Multi-Threaded Game Engine Design and XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers. Visit his blog and forum at jharbour.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1592000096
• ISBN 13: 9781592000098
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 752