Do you enjoy playing video games and want to learn how to create your own? "Game Programming for Teens, Third Edition" shows you how to design and develop a complete video game from start to finish, no prior programming knowledge required. You'll begin by learning the basics of BlitzMax, a simple cross-platform game programming language that can be used on Windows, Mac, or Linux operating systems. Once you understand how to write the programming code, you'll begin to incorporate all the graphical elements of games including varying colors, loading and displaying images, and creating scrolling backgrounds.
Finally, you'll learn how to add sound and music, use keyboard input codes, and even integrate artificial intelligence. New skills are taught step-by-step, and each chapter builds upon the techniques you learned in the previous, so by the end of the book you'll have built your very own fully functioning video game. And the CD-ROM contains all the source code, art and sound files, and demo versions of BlitzMax and the other programs used in the book. So don't just play video games, build your own, with "Game Programming for Teens, Third Edition!"
Part 1 The Basics of Basic
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Getting to Know BASIC
Chapter 3 Loops, Functons, Arrays, and Types
Chapter 4 The Style Factor
Part 2 Getting Graphical
Chapter 5 Beginning Graphics
Chapter 6 Page Flipping and Pixel Plotting
Chapter 7 Animation
Chapter 8 Collision Detection
Part 3 Completing the Puzzle
Chapter 9 Handling Input
Chapter10 Sounds and Music
Chapter11 Artificial Intelligence
Chapter12 The Final Frontier: Invaderz!!!