Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with SDL
Why use SDL?
What is new in SDL 2.0?
Migrating SDL 1.2 extensions
Setting up SDL in Visual C++ Express 2010
Using Mercurial to get SDL 2.0 on Windows
Cloning and building the latest SDL 2.0 repository
I have the library; now what?
Hello SDL
An overview of Hello SDL
SDL initialization flags
SDL renderer flags
What makes up a game
Breaking up the Hello SDL code
What does this code do?
The Game class
Fullscreen SDL
Summary
Chapter 2: Drawing in SDL
Basic SDL drawing
Getting some images
Creating an SDL texture
Source and destination rectangles
Animating a sprite sheet
Flipping images
Installing SDL_image
Using SDL_image
Tying it into the framework
Creating the texture manager
Using texture manager as a singleton
Summary
Chapter 3: Working with Game Objects
Using inheritance
Implementing polymorphism
Using abstract base classes
Should we always use inheritance?
Could the same thing be achieved with a simpler solution?
Derived classes should model the "is a" relationship
Possible performance penalties
Putting it all together
Summary
Chapter 4: Exploring Movement
and Input Handling
Setting up game objects for movement
What is a vector?
Some common operations
Addition of two vectors
Multiply by a scalar number
Subtraction of two vectors
Divide by a scalar number
Normalizing a vector
Adding the Vector2D class
Adding velocity
Adding acceleration
Creating fixed frames per second
Input handling
Creating our input handler class
Handling joystick/gamepad input
SDL joystick events
Initializing joysticks
Listening for and handling axis movement
Dealing with joystick button input
Handling mouse events
Using mouse button events
Handling mouse motion events
Implementing keyboard input
Wrapping things up
Summary
Chapter 5: Handling Game States
A simple way for switching states
Implementing finite state machines
A base class for game states
Implementing FSM
Implementing menu states
Function pointers and callback functions
Implementing the temporary play state
Pausing the game
Creating the game over state
Summary
Chapter 6: Data-driven Design
Loading XML files
Basic XML structure
Implementing Object Factories
Using Distributed Factories
Fitting the factory into the framework
Parsing states from an XML file
Loading the menu state from an XML file
Loading other states from an XML file
Loading the play state
Loading the pause state
Loading the game over state
Summary
Chapter 7: Creating and Displaying
Tile Maps
What is a tile map?
Getting familiar with the Tiled application
Parsing and drawing a tile map
Creating the TileLayer class
Creating the LevelParser class
Parsing tilesets
Parsing a tile layer
Drawing the map
Scrolling a tile map
Parsing object layers
Developing the ObjectLayer class
Summary
Chapter 8: Creating Alien Attack
Using the SDL_mixer extension for sound
Creating the SoundManager class
Setting up the basic game objects
GameObject revamped
SDLGameObject is now ShooterObject
Player inherits from ShooterObject
Lots of enemy types
Adding a scrolling background
Handling bullets
Two types of bullets
The BulletHandler class
Dealing with collisions
Creating a CollisionManager class
Possible improvements
Summary
Chapter 9: Creating Conan the Caveman
Setting up the basic game objects
No more bullets or bullet collisions
Game objects and map collisions
ShooterObject is now PlatformerObject
The Camera class
Camera-controlled map
The Player class
Possible additions
Summary
Index