Advanced Java Game Programming

David Wallace Croft - Collection The Expert's Voice

558 pages, parution le 03/05/2004

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Résumé

Advanced Java Game Programming teaches you how to create desktop and Internet computer games using the latest Java programming language techniques. Whereas other Java game programming books focus on introductory Java material, this book covers game programming for experienced Java developers.

David Wallace Croft, founder of the Game Developers Java Users Group (GameJUG), has assembled an Open Source reusable game library— a Swing animation engine that allows the reader to use these techniques and put out new games very rapidly.

The Open Source game library also includes a reusable game deployment framework and a multiplayer networking library with HTTP firewall tunneling capability for applets. All of the code is Open Source including the example games. The animation has been scrupulously tested and optimized in the Swing environment and Croft clearly explains how the code works in great detail. The graphics and audio libraries used in the examples are Public Domain and may also be used royalty-free for creating new games.

L'auteur - David Wallace Croft

David Wallace Croft - David Wallace Croft is a Java software architect with a professional background in Java game development. He formerly served as the president of the Silicon Valley Java Users Group and is the founder of the Game Developers Java Users Group.

He earned his B.Sc. from the United States Air Force Academy in 1990 and his M.Sc. from the California Institute of Technology in 1995. After a brief career in neural network chip design, he joined an online Internet multiplayer game start-up in 1996 and has been programming in Java exclusively ever since. While writing the book, he taught Java 2D game programming within the Institute of Interactive Arts & Engineering program at the University of Texas at Dallas (http://iiae.utdallas.edu/). In 2004, he transitioned from faculty to student and is now pursuing a doctorate in cognition and neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the same university.

Sommaire

Development Setup
Deployment Frameworks
Swing Animation
Animation Library
Advanced Graphics
Persistent Data
Game Architecture
A* Algorithm
HTTP Tunneling
HTTP Polling
HTTP Pulling

Appendix A Source Code Index
Appendix B Introducing CVS

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Apress
Auteur(s)	David Wallace Croft
Collection	The Expert's Voice
Parution	03/05/2004
Nb. de pages	558
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	925g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781590591239
ISBN13	978-1-59059-123-9