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| About the Author | |
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| About the Technical Reviewer | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Developing Your First Game | |
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| Learning the Basics of Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Overview of the .NET Framework | |
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| Class Is in Session | |
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| Designing the Die Roller Form | |
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| Coding the Die Roller | |
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| Adding Your Own Property | |
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| Setting Up Events, or Making the Program Do Something | |
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| Setting Up Methods | |
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| Rolling the Die | |
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| Where to Draw the Die? | |
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| Putting the Die in Its Place | |
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| Moving the Die | |
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| Tying the Functionality Together | |
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| The End? | |
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| Writing Your First Game, Again | |
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| Understanding the Benefits of Rewriting | |
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| Creating the Die Class | |
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| Putting the Die Class to Work | |
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| Version 3: Creating the DicePanel Class | |
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| Testing the Classes | |
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| Adding the DicePanel Class to the Toolbox | |
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| Now That's Reusable Stuff! | |
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| Understanding Object-Oriented Programming from the Start | |
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| Starting the NineTiles Project | |
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| Looking Back on the Design | |
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| More OOPing Around | |
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| Setting Up the Graphics | |
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| Creating the Base Tile Class | |
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| Developing Brain Drain Concentration | |
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| Developing DeducTile Reasoning | |
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| Developing Lose Your Mind | |
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| Summary | |
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| Understanding Polymorphism | |
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| Seeing Polymorphism in Action | |
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| Understanding Life and Something Like It | |
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| Developing Conway's Game of Life | |
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| Developing Rainbow Life | |
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| Developing the Voting Game | |
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| Building the Main Cellular Automaton Program | |
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| Expanding the Cellular Automaton Games | |
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| Using Polymorphism via Interfaces | |
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| Seeing an Example Interface in Action | |
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| Using More Complex Interfaces | |
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| Finally, Seeing the Polymorphism in Action | |
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| Additional Interface Topics | |
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| Creating Multiplayer Games | |
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| Understanding Network Communication | |
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| Creating the Player Class and Subclasses | |
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| Developing the ReversiPiece Class | |
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| Developing the ReversiGame Class | |
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| Setting Up the Game | |
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| Sending Game Data | |
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| Receiving Game Data | |
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| Debugging Network Code | |
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| Moving Forward | |
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| Using DirectX | |
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| Installing DirectX 9 | |
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| Understanding DirectDraw Basics | |
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| Building an Arcade Game | |
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| Summary | |
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| Learning Other Object-Oriented Programming Topics | |
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| Understanding Structured Exception Handling | |
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| Understanding Garbage Collection | |
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| Understanding Object Serialization | |
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| Understanding Threading | |
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| The Basics of Visual Basic | |
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| Getting Started with Basic Programming | |
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| Looking at an Example Project | |
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| Using POV-RAY and Moray | |
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| Introducing Persistence of Vision | |
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| Creating the Ray-Traced Die | |
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| Summary | |
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| Using the BMPStitch Utility | |
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| Using BMPStitch | |
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| Using the BMPStitch Code | |
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| Summary | |
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| Index | |