Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus
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Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus is a book by the celebrated game programmer and author Andre LaMothe. It covers Win32 programming, along with the major components of DirectX including DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectInput (including Force Feedback), and DirectMusic. The reader is taught 2D graphics and rasterization techniques. The author provides information on game algorithms, multithreaded programming, artificial intelligence (including fuzzy logic, neural nets, and genetic algorithms), and physics modeling. The examples are written in C and ocassionally C++.
The usage of DirectDraw 7 is an indication of the book being dated, but the book is generally considered as a good introduction to game programming.
The second edition of this book was released in June 15, 2002. It is followed-up by a sequel: Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization.