... Windows programming doesn’t really have to be all that difficultwhen you strip out all the app stuff, like menus, that aren’t needed for writinggames.// Beginning Game Programming, 2nd Edition // ... Hisfavorite game development tools are DarkBASIC, Allegro, and DirectX. Jonathanis the author of these recent books: Game Programming All in One, Third Edition; DarkBASIC Pro Game Programming, Second Edition ... other open-source game programming tools, see my book Game Programming All In One, Third Edition. In that book, I do not cover DirectX, butfocus on an open-source, cross-platform game library called...