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Game Programming in C and C++

Same Game - A Simple Game from Start to Finish

By Ben Marchant

Do you want to learn how to create a game? This series will teach you how to create a game, starting from the very beginning and ending with a fully playable game.

• Same Game - Part 1: Introduction to technologies and drawing the game board
• Same Game - Part 2: Creating a real, playable game
• Same Game - Part 3: Adding difficulty levels and other menu options
• Same Game - Part 4: Changing the game board size and the block count
• Same Game - Part 5: Adding undo/redo functionality and keyboard accelerators

Other game programming articles

• So you want to be a game programmer?
• What it takes to write a game
• Designing a game using modules
• MiniMax Game Trees
• Chess Board Representation

Object-Oriented Animation

Learn how to design a framework for doing animation--a foundation for many games and graphics engines.

• An Introduction to Object Oriented Animation
• Frames, Layers and Layer Folders
• The design of the animation engine

Other game programming resources

• Game programming forum
• Game program source code
• Other game programming links