TeenCoder Series: Game Programming Student Textbook with Course CD, Second Edition

Please Note: The sold-separately TeenCoder Windows Programming course is a pre-requsite to this second-semester course!!

Game Programming focuses on creating Windows games, however, the XNA Framework also allows students to create games for the XBox 360 with minimal additional effort! Regardless of platform, students will learn many important concepts of game design. By the end of the course they are well-equipped to write their own games as they learn about game design & logic, displaying graphics, animating images, handling sprites, playing sounds, game physics, maze solutions, multi-players viewports, and AI. For the final project students will create new arcade game called Bumper Cars, demonstrating many of the game programming skills learned throughout the semester.

Grades 9-12. 254 pages, softcover, 2nd Edition. CD included. 1 semester; designed to be used in the second semester after the sold-separately TeenCoder: Windows Programming course is successfully completed.

Topics covered:

• Introduction to the XNA Game Studio
• Game design, game engines, and timer loops
• Screen coordinates and color concepts
• Drawing, scaling, and rotating images
• Handling keyboard, mouse, and XBox 360 Gamepad controller inputs
• Creating Sprite objects
• Collision detection
• 2D animation techniques
• Playing music and sound effects
• Game physics
• Maze generation and solution algorithms
• Menus, overlays, and deployment models
• Multi-player scrolling games
• Game artificial intelligence (AI)

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