Palm OS Game Programming

Name: Palm OS Game Programming
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ISBN: 9780585439785

ISBN-10: 0585439788

ISBN-13: 9780585439785

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Authors: Nicholas Pleis

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Language: English

Introduction	p. XXIX
	p. 1
Getting Started	p. 3
So You Want to Be a Game Programmer	p. 4
Who Is This Book For?	p. 4
How to Choose Your Device	p. 5
The Long Haul	p. 6
What You'll Need	p. 7
Choosing a Compiler	p. 7
Other Software	p. 8
Understanding Game Development	p. 9
The Development Cycle	p. 9
Go Team! (or Go Solo)	p. 16
The Hardware	p. 19
The PDA	p. 20
A Brief History	p. 20
Thinking Like a User	p. 23
The Future of PDAs	p. 25
The Palm Philosophy	p. 25
"Sophisticated Simplicity"	p. 26
Looking to the Future	p. 28
The Desktop Companion	p. 28
Palm Input	p. 29
The Touch Screen	p. 29
Graffiti	p. 34
Hard Keys	p. 35
Alternative Input Methods	p. 36
Designing Input	p. 37
Simple Is Better	p. 37
Under the Hood	p. 38
Shortcomings	p. 41
Not a Desktop Machine	p. 41
Storage and Code Design	p. 42
Smaller Is Better, Isn't It?	p. 43
Summary	p. 44
Writing Your First Program	p. 45
Hello World	p. 46
Not Really C	p. 46
The Code	p. 47
Taking a Closer Look	p. 49
The Palm Event Loop	p. 51
Understanding Events	p. 51
Using the Event Manager	p. 52
Compiling Your Program	p. 53
GCC	p. 53
CodeWarrior	p. 56
Debugging Code	p. 59
The Palm OS Error API	p. 59
Debugging with POSE	p. 61
Summary	p. 67
Examples	p. 67
	p. 69
The Bare Essentials	p. 71
Setting Up	p. 72
Full Screen or Windowed?	p. 72
Working with Resources	p. 73
Introducing the Bitmap	p. 74
The Resource Compiler	p. 75
Drawing Your Bitmap	p. 86
Creating Windows	p. 86
A Simple Way to Draw	p. 89
Double Buffering	p. 90
What Is Double Buffering?	p. 91
Creating a Secondary Buffer	p. 94
Flipping	p. 94
The Canvas Class	p. 95
The Basic Design	p. 95
Working with a Canvas	p. 98
Getting Things Going with the SystemManager	p. 99
Polling the OS	p. 99
Using the SystemManager	p. 103
Working with Color	p. 105
Summary	p. 107
Examples	p. 107
Reading and Writing Files	p. 109
A Break from Tradition	p. 110
Palm Databases	p. 110
The Data Manager	p. 113
Creating a New Database	p. 113
Opening a Database	p. 114
Records	p. 115
Data Manager Error Codes	p. 120
File Streaming	p. 122
Opening a Stream	p. 123
Reading from a Stream	p. 125
Writing to a Stream	p. 126
Cleaning Up	p. 127
Controlling Streams	p. 127
Error Codes	p. 130
Summary	p. 131
Bring on the Sprites	p. 133
What Is a Sprite?	p. 134
Bringing Your Games to Life	p. 134
A Typical Sprite	p. 135
Working with Animation	p. 138
How Animation Works	p. 138
A Simple Example	p. 139
Timing	p. 141
Controlling Animation	p. 142
Transparency	p. 145
What Is a Mask?	p. 146
Making Sprites Transparent	p. 148
Using Transparency Wisely	p. 148
A Palm-Sized Sprite Library	p. 149
Working with Animation	p. 149
Sprites	p. 155
Summary	p. 157
Examples	p. 157
Input	p. 159
Input and the OS	p. 160
Input Management	p. 160
Breaking the Mold	p. 162
EventType Structure	p. 163
The Touch Screen	p. 164
Using Graffiti	p. 164
Tracking the Stylus	p. 168
The Buttons	p. 170
The Hard Key Dilemma	p. 170
Handling Hard Keys	p. 171
The Future	p. 172
The Input Class	p. 172
Designing a Reusable Input System	p. 172
Implementation	p. 178
Summary	p. 185
Working with Tiles	p. 187
Understanding Tiles	p. 188
What Is a Tile Exactly?	p. 188
Layers	p. 190
Collision Detection	p. 191
Implementing a Tile Engine	p. 193
Tile Sets	p. 193
Map Format	p. 194
Tile Engine Classes	p. 195
Efficiency	p. 205
Summary	p. 206
Example	p. 206
Physics: The Science of Your World	p. 207
Why Is Physics Important?	p. 208
A World without Physics	p. 208
What Is Physics?	p. 209
Basic Collision Detection	p. 210
Bounding Boxes	p. 210
Detecting Collisions	p. 212
Implementing a Collision Scheme	p. 214
Kinematics Equations: The Mathematics of Motion	p. 216
Linear Motion	p. 217
Putting Kinematics to Work	p. 223
Influencing Motion by Force	p. 224
May the Force	p. 225
Newton's Laws	p. 225
Forces, Practically Speaking	p. 228
Responding to Collisions	p. 230
Implementing a Physics System	p. 231
Design	p. 232
Implementation	p. 232
Summary	p. 241
Example	p. 242
Bringing It All Together: Building a Reusable Game Engine	p. 243
The Framework	p. 244
What's a Framework?	p. 244
The PGL_Presentation Class	p. 246
Input and the Framework	p. 248
PGL-man: A Game Example	p. 248
The User Interface	p. 249
Basic Game Architecture	p. 256
The Welcome Screen	p. 258
The High Scores Screen	p. 259
Gameplay	p. 261
The Game Code	p. 267
Summary	p. 278
Examples	p. 279
	p. 281
Multiplayer Games	p. 283
Designing for Multiplayer	p. 284
Design Early, Design Often	p. 285
Interaction	p. 285
Different Devices, Different Experiences	p. 286
Cheating	p. 286
Multiplayer Option or a True Multiplayer Game?	p. 287
Communicating via Sockets	p. 287
Communication Methods	p. 288
Net Support	p. 290
Establishing a Connection	p. 291
Sending and Receiving Data	p. 298
Closing a Socket	p. 300
Internet Game Programming	p. 301
Implementing a Multiplayer Game	p. 302
A Typical Multiplayer Game	p. 304
Summary	p. 307
Artificial Intelligence	p. 309
What Is Artificial Intelligence?	p. 310
SI Techniques	p. 312
Finite State Machines	p. 312
Environment-Based SI	p. 312
Genetic Programming	p. 314
Neural Networks	p. 316
Practical SI on the Palm OS	p. 316
Path Finding	p. 317
Decision Making	p. 322
Environmental SI	p. 326
Fuzzy Logic and Machine Reasoning	p. 328
A Brief Introduction to Set Theory	p. 329
Limitation of Traditional Sets	p. 330
Fuzzy Sets	p. 330
Fuzzy Set Theory	p. 333
Summary	p. 334
Examples	p. 335
Advanced Topics	p. 337
Multisegment Applications	p. 338
General Workarounds	p. 339
Segmenting CodeWarrior Applications	p. 340
Segmenting a PRC-Tools Application	p. 342
Localizing Your Application	p. 345
The String Table	p. 345
The Palm OS International API	p. 346
Client-Side Prediction	p. 349
Working with Client-Side Prediction	p. 349
Prediction Side-Effects	p. 350
The GCC New Allocator	p. 352
A First Solution	p. 352
A New Problem	p. 352
A Bitmap Cache	p. 354
A Brief Introduction to Bitmap Caching	p. 354
Implementing a Simple Cache	p. 355
Using the PGL_CanvasCacheManager	p. 356
Summary	p. 358
Publishing Your Palm Game	p. 361
Publishing Your Game on Your Own Web Site	p. 363
Using a Well-Known Web Site	p. 365
Using a Publisher	p. 366
Summary	p. 367
Sound	p. 369
Selected Palm API Reference	p. 377
Other Language Options	p. 391
Resources	p. 397
What's on the CD	p. 401
Index	p. 407
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