Game Programming with C++

Studies + exercises from book of the same name by Sanjay Madhav

Description

A long-term project that I am using to strengthen and reinforce my game programming fundamentals. This project starts with fundamental concepts of game programming in 2D and moves into 3D. Demo projects are written to demonstrate the fundamentals learned.

Progression

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1. Pong - Core real-time game concepts

• Game Loop
• Game Updating over time
• Game input and output

2. Side Scroller - Game object representation + 2D grahics techniques

• Game objects representation models
• Implement Actor-Component Model
• Sprites
• Sprite animations
• Scrolling backgrounds
• Tilemaps

3. Asteroids - Vectors and Basic Physics

• Vector math: Vectors and how they are used in games
• Basics of Newtonian physics
• Basic movement - Move Component
• Keyboard input - Input Component
• Collision detection-Circle Component

4. Asteroids - Convert previous demo from SDL graphics to OpenGL

Begin transition from 2D to 3D

Drawing sprites - triangles(polygons) and vertex array objects

Matrices and transformations: scale - rotation - translation

Object space - World space - Clip space

Vertex and Fragment Shaders

Texture mapping and alpha blending

5. 3D Graphics

3D transform matrices

Euler angles and Quaternions

Loading 3D models

Drawing 3D meshes- View/projection matrices

Z-buffering

Lighting- light types + Phong shader

Dependencies

• Windows 10
• Visual Studio 2022
• SDL
• SDL_image (Demos 1-3)
• OpenGL 3.3
• GLEW
• SOIL