Have you always wanted to get started in game development? Here's your chance to learn how to create games from the ground up, using C++ and DirectX. Learn about the game loop, input detection, applying basic shaders, state management, and more. With these skills, you'll be building the engine, not just the game—and you'll up-level your employability options with AAA companies at the same time.
Full course outline:
Mod 01: Introduction and Getting Started
Mod 02: What DirectX Can Do and Creating the Main Game Loop
Mod 03: Creating, Texturing, and Moving Objects
Mod 04: State Management
Mod 05: Capturing User Input
Mod 06: Physics and Collision Detection
Mod 07: Adding AI and Other Extras to the Game
--Preparing to Make a Game
- Picking the Right Tools
- What is Needed to Start
- What's New in Visual Studio 2013
- Capabilities of DirectX 11
- What's New to DirectX 11
- The IFrameworkView and your App
- The Basic Game Loop
- The Update Stage
- The Rendering Stage
- Things We Should Know
- Creating a Mesh
- Manipulating an Object
- Rendering a Mesh
- Creating More of the Same
- What are States and State Machines
- How To Implement Them
- Our Demo Implementation
- Aggregating Input From Multiple Sources
- Capturing User Input
- Applying User Input
- Planning What you Need
- Planning your Approach
- Common Pitfalls
- Simplifying it Down
- Implementing Physics
- Assessing what you need
- Common Pitfalls
- the Basics of an AI Agent
- Stepwise Implementation
- Tweaking It
- Wrapping Up
