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specific to game programming. If you're still new to coding Java and want to
brush up ... technique or programming trick that can help
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elcome to the amazing world of game programming! This book will show you
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Deciding What Kind of Game to Make 27
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first games you make.
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Building Zelda 359
Enhancements to Zelda 361
Platform Scroller Games 362
Building a platform scroller game 363
Enhancements to a platform scroller game 364
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Building Breakout 365
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for teachers of Javagame programming.
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loop looks like this:
foreach (string word ... case, you don’t know beforehand how many times the
loop will occur, so a while loop is the best solution for this type of situation.
Trap It is possible to use for loops for any kind of looping ... All information in a computer, from text to video games, is converted internally
into binary numbers before the computer can do something useful with it. In the earliest days of
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basis for the vector space. Before we can define exactly what a
basis is, we need to know what it means for a set of vectors to be linearly
independent.
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Exercises for Chapter 3 64
Chapter 4 Transforms 67
4.1 Linear Transformations 67
4.1.1 Orthogonal Matrices 68
4.1.2 Handedness 70
4.2 Scaling Transforms 70
4.3 Rotation Transforms 71
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transformation.
Once a model’s vertices have been transformed into camera space, they un-
dergo a projection transformation that has...