Palm OS Game Programming

Nicholas Pleis

424 pages, parution le 21/02/2002

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Résumé

The PDA market continues to boom with Palm holding approximately 70% of the market share worldwide. These PDAs are used not only for practical purposes, but also as a means of entertainment. They have tremendous potential as game machines, but only if someone takes the time to really understand the operating system that they run on. This book provides the details and techniques any programmer needs to produce great content for these machines. It provides a solid introduction to commonly used game programming techniques and creates a library of tools that programmers will find extremely useful. It covers a wide range of topics, all related to developing games for the Palm OS and teaches the reader how to build an actual game using the Palm OS.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1
Chapter 1 : Getting Started
Chapter 2 : The Hardware
Chapter 3 : Writing Your First Program

Part 2
Chapter 4 : The Bare Essentials
Chapter 5 : Reading and Writing Files
Chapter 6 : Bring on the Sprites
Chapter 7 : Input
Chapter 8 : Working with Tiles
Chapter 9 : Physics : The Science of Your World
Chapter 10 : Bringing It All Together : Building a Reusable Game Engine

Part 3
Chapter 11 : Multiplayer Games
Chapter 12 : Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 13 : Advanced Topics
Chapter 14 : Publishing Your Palm Game

Appendix A : Sound
Appendix B : Selected Palm API Reference
Appendix C : Other Language Options
Appendix D : Resources
Appendix E : What's on the CD

Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Premier Press
Auteur(s)	Nicholas Pleis
Parution	21/02/2002
Nb. de pages	424
Format	19 x 23,2
Couverture	Broché
Poids	796g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781931841191
ISBN13	978-1-931841-19-1