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SFML Game Development By Example

You're reading from   SFML Game Development By Example Create and develop exciting games from start to finish using SFML

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287343
Length 522 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Pupius Pupius
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

SFML Game Development By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. It's Alive! It's Alive! – Setup and First Program FREE CHAPTER 2. Give It Some Structure – Building the Game Framework 3. Get Your Hands Dirty – What You Need to Know 4. Grab That Joystick – Input and Event Management 5. Can I Pause This? – Application States 6. Set It in Motion! – Animating and Moving around Your World 7. Rediscovering Fire – Common Game Design Elements 8. The More You Know – Common Game Programming Patterns 9. A Breath of Fresh Air – Entity Component System Continued 10. Can I Click This? – GUI Fundamentals 11. Don't Touch the Red Button! – Implementing the GUI 12. Can You Hear Me Now? – Sound and Music 13. We Have Contact! – Networking Basics 14. Come Play with Us! – Multiplayer Subtleties Index

Summary


Upon this chapter concluding, you should have everything you need in your tool belt to fashion states that can be transparent, updated in groups, and supported by the rest of our codebase. There's no reason to stop there. Build it again, make it better, faster and implement different features that didn't get covered in this chapter. Expand it, crash it, fix it and learn from it. Nothing is ever good enough, so build onto the knowledge you've gained here.

A famous Chinese proverb states: "Life is like a game of chess, changing with each move".

While that analogy holds true, life can also be like a game with states. Breaking it down into smaller and more manageable parts makes it a whole lot easier to handle. Whether it is life imitating code or code imitating life is irrelevant. Great ideas come from different backgrounds coming together. Hopefully, by the end of this chapter you are taking off with not only the knowledge of simply how to build yet another manager, but also the wisdom...

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