... and graphical
punch than early arcade games. Rather than employing 20-year-old technology, we can
create a particle system to animate effects in real-time.
Don’t Panic
The particles we are talking ... still want to be able to easily create and change the map used in
Sir Lamorak’s Quest.Allowing your game to be data driven means that tuning and develop-
ing the game becomes a lot easier than when ... device as soon as I saw it.When Apple then released the SDK, I im-
mediately downloaded it and started to play, as did thousands of others, and I watched as
more and more games started to appear...
... a castle and that he car-
ries an axe. Based on this and the game components we have already described, we can
create a list of actions the player needs to be capable of, as follows:
n
Move around ... keys, and as far as I was
concerned, it was a thing of beauty and magic.
I had no idea how or why it worked—it just did. As I sat and watched my first game
slowly load and appear on my portable ... disappear after a couple
seconds.
Once it has vanished, the player can fire the axe again. Only being able to fire a single
axe at a time is an idea I have seen used in some classic Spectrum games,...
... iPad, and Android phones. Blake has worked as a researcher
and in management at Apple, Xerox PARC, and numerous
startups. He is currently an independent iPhone and Android
developer, available ... SDK Programming: A Beginner’s Guide
The Media layer is also rather low-level and contains C application programming interfaces
(APIs) like OpenGL ES, Quartz, and Core Audio. The Cocoa layer ... 432
Summary 433
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Multimedia 435
Playing Sounds 436
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound 437
AVAudioPlayer and AVAudioPlayerDelegate 438
Try This: Playing a Sound and an MP3 439
Media Player Framework...
... IBAction
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Arrays and Structures
C arrays are similar to Java arrays. You declare arrays the same way, but C has no new keyword;
you simply start using the array (Listing ... Using a C array
int myArray[100];
myArray[0] = 1;
myArray[1] = 2;
C has structs; Java doesn’t have a struct data type. In C, a struct is similar to a class, but
has no functions or inheritance ... Conditional Statements
Control statements, functions, and conditional statements all have the same syntax as their Java
counterparts. Conditional if statements are the same as used in Java (Listing...
... informit.com/aw
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Williams, James L. (James Lamar), 1981-
Learning HTML5 gameprogramming : a hands-on guide to building online games using
Canvas, SVG, and ... release, Gears introduced the Database, LocalServer, and Wo rke r Po ol mod-
ules. Gears’ Database API uses an SQLite-like syntax to create relational data storage for
web applications.The data ... and the publish-
er was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed with initial capital
letters or in all capitals.
The author and publisher have taken care in the preparation...
... for iPhone applicaons.
What is Unity?
Imagine for a moment that you want to build agame for the iPhone and you want to take
advantage of all the plaorms' features, but you don't know ... and
Fabrice G, who knows me as an Apple(c) addict.
What is Unity and why should I care?
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An applicaon idener has a descripon, a prex and a sux. The prex is
a collecon of characters ... websites. A er his graduaon he connued
to learn more and more about soware like Architecture and Project management, always
acquiring new skills.
Julien was at work talking with a colleague in August...
... to give you as complete an
overview of the available features as possible.
A one-year student license is also available
through Studica for $129.
2.2 Features
There are many features absent in ... game
engine.
public class Mook : MonoBehaviour {
-This line actually declared the class and
its name (“Mook”);
private float health; -This declares a
private class variable (which can only be
changed from ... inside the class). The
variable is given a value in Start().
void Start () { -This declares a method
called ‘Start.’ Start is a special method
that runs only once, when the game
initially launches.
2....
...
Web-related technologies:
y Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
y Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
y JavaScript and DOM scripting
y Server-side programming and database management
AT A GLANCE
The ... interactive
graphics, integrated audio and video clips, and even scriptable
games and applications, all at remarkably small file sizes.
However, recently Flash use has been on the decline due to a
number ... process may be
more apparent as images lag behind the text. The page may even need to be
redrawn as new images arrive (although you can construct your pages in a
way to prevent that from happening).
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This ... has a significant effect on the way a pro-
gram handles data:
■ the programmer must ensure that data are initialized with suitable values before
use and that suitable data are passed to a function ... C
programming language: ++ is the increment operator in C.
As early as 1989 an ANSI Committee (American National Standards Institute) was
founded to standardize the C++ programming language. The aim...
... Chapter 6.
Adding the Game Logic
Now we can start on the actual game logic. Game logic includes any code that actually makes the
game play happen. It can be composed of physics, artificial intelligence, ... create a class to
handle items in a collection. Start up a new console application in Visual Studio and add a class
called ListBase. Now we need to add the necessary namespaces and declare ... has a relationship. In the case
of a box, we can say that Box has a Height, Width, and Length. In the case of a CardboardBox, we
can say it has a Thickness, Height, Width, and Length. The has...
... Genetic Programming
This, however, can easily be worked around by providing a mechanism to
convert a numeric value into a Boolean automatically as discussed above.
Alternatively, one can replace ... complex and active area of research in GP
and machine learning in general. See Chapter 9 and also (Deb, 2001).
3.4 Step 4: GP Parameters
The fourth preparatory step specifies the control parameters ... Programming Run
This chapter provides an illustrative run of GP in which the goal is to
automatically create a program with a target input/output behaviour. In
particular, we want to evolve an...
... elements that are often in competition with one another. The area of
multi-objective optimisation is a complex and active area of research in GP
and machine learning in general. See Chapter 9 and also ... He
is an associate editor of the Journal on Artificial Evolution and Applica-
tions, an editorial board member of Genetic Programming and Evolvable
Machines, and has served on the program committees ... Getting Ready to Run Genetic Programming
This, however, can easily be worked around by providing a mechanism to
convert a numeric value into a Boolean automatically as discussed above.
Alternatively,...
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Chapter 21 describes how a program can ... has a significant effect on the way a pro-
gram handles data:
■ the programmer must ensure that data are initialized with suitable values before
use and that suitable data are passed to a function ... the basic types and objects used by C++
programs.
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