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| Introduction | |
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| A Brief History of Gaming | |
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| A Quick Timeline | |
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| 1958-The First Video Game Invented | |
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| 1961-Spacewar | |
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| 1967-Television Video Games Created | |
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| 1971-The First Video Arcade Game | |
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| 1972-Magnavox Odyssey Brings Games Home | |
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| 1975-Atari Releases Pong | |
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| 1977-Atari 2600 | |
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| 1978-Space Invaders | |
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| 1979-High Score | |
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| 1980-The First 3D Game | |
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| 1980-Pac-Man | |
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| 1981-Hello Mario | |
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| 1983-Video Game Crash | |
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| 1983-Dragon's Lair | |
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| 1985-NES and Super Mario Bros | |
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| 1985-Tetris | |
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| 1989-Game Boy | |
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| 1993-Atari Jaguar | |
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| 1993-Doom | |
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| 1995-PlayStation | |
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| 1996-Nintendo 64 | |
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| 2000-PlayStation 2 | |
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| 2001-Xbox | |
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| Becoming the World's Best 3D Game Programmer | |
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| The Skills You Need | |
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| Programming Skills | |
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| Graphic Design Skills | |
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| Team Skills | |
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| Math | |
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| Patience | |
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| Communication Skills | |
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| Grace Under Pressure | |
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| Attention to Detail | |
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| Creativity | |
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| How to Get the Skills | |
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| Play Games | |
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| Practice, Practice, Practice | |
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| Read | |
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| Get Out There | |
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| Find a Mentor | |
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| Take a Course | |
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| Have Other Interests | |
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| Designing a Game | |
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| The Big Idea | |
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| An Old Video Game | |
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| A Book | |
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| A Sport | |
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| A Board Game | |
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| An Event in Your Life | |
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| A News Event | |
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| A Sitcom, Drama, Game Show, or Movie | |
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| Planning Your Game | |
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| Type of Game | |
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| The Story Line | |
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| Storyboarding | |
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| Controls | |
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| Sounds and Music | |
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| Creating a Design Document | |
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| Anatomy of a Game | |
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| Programming Languages | |
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| C++ | |
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| Java | |
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| Visual Basic | |
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| Blitz3D | |
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| 3D Modeling Software | |
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| Maya | |
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| 3ds Max | |
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| Graphics Programs | |
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| Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator | |
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| CorelDRAW Graphics Suite | |
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| Audio Programs | |
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| Code Flow | |
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| Exploring Blitz3D | |
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| Installing Blitz3D | |
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| Launching Blitz3D | |
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| Getting to Know the User Interface | |
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| The Menu Bar | |
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| The Toolbar | |
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| Switching Programs | |
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| The Side Panel | |
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| Entering Code and Comments | |
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| Your First 3D Program | |
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| The Jumping Cone Program | |
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| Dissecting the Code | |
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| Shapes and Objects | |
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| Understanding the 3D World | |
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| Creating Basic Shapes | |
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| Creating a Cone | |
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| Creating Multiple Cones | |
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| Creating Cubes, Cylinders, and Spheres | |
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| Segments | |
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| Resizing and Reshaping Objects | |
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| Resizing or Scaling | |
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| Reshaping | |
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| Flipping an Object | |
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| Coloring | |
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| Wireframe | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Textures and Texture Mapping | |
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| Applying Image Textures | |
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| Scaling Textures | |
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| Creating Text Textures | |
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| Object Order | |
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| Getting Graphic | |
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| Heightmaps | |
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| Creating Heightmaps with Textured Fills | |
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| Creating Heightmaps with a Brush | |
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| Creating Heightmaps with Effects | |
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| Creating Textures | |
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| Walls | |
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| Terrains and Skies | |
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| Creating Terrains with Texture Fills | |
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| Wood | |
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| Creating Terrains with Effects | |
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| Information Screens | |
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| Welcome Screen | |
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| Pause Screen | |
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| 3D Modeling | |
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| Creating a Bottle | |
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| Creating the Outline | |
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| Lathing the Bottle | |
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| Exporting the Bottle | |
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| Creating a Missile | |
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| Creating the Missile Body | |
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| Creating the Wings | |
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| Exporting the Missile | |
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| Importing Models into Blitz3D | |
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| Controlling Objects | |
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| Moving Objects | |
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| Rotating Objects | |
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| Rotating Objects on Their Own | |
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| Orbiting (a.k.a. Pivoting) | |
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| Lights and Cameras | |
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| Working with Cameras | |
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| Creating and Positioning a Camera | |
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| Rotating a Camera | |
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| Using Two Cameras | |
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| Switching Cameras Virtually | |
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| Splitting Views | |
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| Zooming | |
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| Camera Movement | |
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| Following an Object | |
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| Light | |
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| Types of Lights | |
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| Light Range | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| Creating a Terrain | |
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| Positioning a Terrain | |
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| Changing the Terrain Color | |
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| Applying a Texture to a Terrain | |
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| Changing the Size of a Terrain | |
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| Creating a Plane | |
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| Applying a Heightmap | |
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| Shapes as Environments | |
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| Going Inside Shapes | |
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| Using Shapes with Terrains | |
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| Collisions | |
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| Creating a Collision | |
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| Collision Code | |
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| Colliding Objects | |
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| Collision Radius | |
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| Shields Down!-Clear Collisions | |
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| Collision Effects | |
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| Poof! Now You See It, Now You Don't | |
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| Chameleon Colors | |
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| Blowing Up Stuff | |
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| Other Collision Commands | |
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| Sounds and Music | |
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| Sounds | |
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| Loading and Playing Sounds | |
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| Adjusting Volume | |
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| Adjusting Pitch | |
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| Adjusting Pan | |
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| All I Want Is Loving You, and Music, Music, Music | |
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| Working with Channels | |
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| Looping Music | |
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| Other 3D Game Components | |
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| Gravity | |
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| Simple Jumping | |
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| Velocity | |
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| Chase Camera | |
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| Mirror | |
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| Timing | |
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| Text | |
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| Adding and Positioning Text | |
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| Adding Text Variables | |
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| Setting Font Size and Appearance | |
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| Freeing Fonts | |
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| Math | |
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| Random | |
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| Guns and Bullets | |
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| Positioning a First-Person Shooter Gun | |
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| Bullets | |
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| Pausing | |
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| Welcome Screens | |
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| Programming Fundamentals | |
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| Variables | |
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| Integer Variables | |
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| Floating Point Variables | |
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| String Variables | |
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| Inputting with Other Variables | |
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| Global versus Local Variables | |
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| Functions | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Types | |
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| Conditionals | |
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| Operators | |
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| If ... Then Statements | |
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| If ... Then ... Else | |
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| Goto | |
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| Select ... Case | |
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| Looping Conditionals | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Planning the Game-"3D Gallery" | |
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| Files for the Game | |
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| Creating the Water Texture | |
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| Welcome Screen | |
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| Setting Up the Graphic Elements and Camera | |
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| Setting Up the Game Elements | |
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| Creating the World | |
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| Gallery Items | |
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| Creating the Guns and Bullets | |
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| Game Control and Gravity | |
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| Moving Targets | |
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| Firing Bullets | |
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| Pausing the Game | |
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| Creating Collisions | |
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| Changing the Gallery | |
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| Destroying Gallery Items | |
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| Reloading Bullets | |
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| Score | |
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| Time Remaining | |
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| Ending the Game | |
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| Text | |
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| Sounds | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |