You're reading from Beginning C++ Game Programming Learn to program with C++ by building fun games

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2019

Last Updated in Jul 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838648572

Length 746 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

SFML

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

John Horton

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: C++, SFML, Visual Studio, and Starting the First Game FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 2: Variables, Operators, and Decisions – Animating Sprites

3. Chapter 3: C++ Strings and SFML Time – Player Input and HUD

4. Chapter 4: Loops, Arrays, Switches, Enumerations, and Functions – Implementing Game Mechanics

5. Chapter 5: Collisions, Sound, and End Conditions – Making the Game Playable

6. Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming – Starting the Pong Game

7. Chapter 7: Dynamic Collision Detection and Physics – Finishing the Pong Game

8. Chapter 8: SFML Views – Starting the Zombie Shooter Game

9. Chapter 9: C++ References, Sprite Sheets, and Vertex Arrays

10. Chapter 10: Pointers, the Standard Template Library, and Texture Management

11. Chapter 11: Collision Detection, Pickups, and Bullets

12. Chapter 12: Layering Views and Implementing the HUD

13. Chapter 13: Sound Effects, File I/O, and Finishing the Game

14. Chapter 14: Abstraction and Code Management – Making Better Use of OOP

15. Chapter 15: Advanced OOP – Inheritance and Polymorphism

16. Chapter 16: Building Playable Levels and Collision Detection

17. Chapter 17: Sound Spatialization and the HUD

18. Chapter 18: Particle Systems and Shaders

19. Chapter 19: Game Programming Design Patterns – Starting the Space Invaders ++ Game

20. Chapter 20: Game Objects and Components

21. Chapter 21: File I/O and the Game Object Factory

22. Chapter 22: Using Game Objects and Building a Game

23. Chapter 23: Before You Go...

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FAQ

Q) I noticed we have coded quite a few functions of the Player class that we don't use. Why is this?

A) Rather than keep coming back to the Player class, we have added all the code that we will need throughout the project. By the end of Chapter 13, Sound Effects, File I/O, and Finishing the Game, we will have made full use of all of these functions.