Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus by Andre LaMothe

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This doesn’t contain the real DirectX code. DLL dynamic link library that does the real work. You can find this in the DirectX SDK installation under . LIB import library. You don’t need to worry about this per se; you just need to make sure that the DirectX run-time files are installed. H header file and see what the functions are within it. 2 Continued #define SCREEN_WIDTH #define SCREEN_HEIGHT #define SCREEN_BPP #define MAX_COLORS 640 // size of screen 480 8 // bits per pixel 256 // maximum colors // MACROS ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// // these read the keyboard asynchronously #define KEY_DOWN(vk_code) ((GetAsyncKeyState(vk_code) & 0x8000) ?

If you believe it’s possible—it is! After the DOOM craze hit, Microsoft really started to reevaluate its position on gaming and game programming. It realized that the entertainment industry is huge and only getting bigger. It also realized that it wanted to be part of that industry, so big plans were drawn up to get Microsoft into the game. The problem was that even Windows 95 had terrible real-time video and audio capabilities. So Microsoft created a piece of software called Win-G to address the video aspect of the problem.

As you can see, there are functions to do everything that we needed for our little graphics interface. 3. Take a good look at it, especially the main game loop and the calls to the game processing functions. =0) { // test ball against bounding box of block if ((ball_cx > x1) && (ball_cx < x1+BLOCK_WIDTH) && (ball_cy > y1) && (ball_cy < y1+BLOCK_HEIGHT)) { // remove the block blocks[row][col] = 0; // increment global block counter, so we know // when to start another level up blocks_hit++; // bounce the ball ball_dy=-ball_dy; // add a little english ball_dx+=(-1+rand()%3); // make a little noise MessageBeep(MB_OK); // add some points score+=5*(level+(abs(ball_dx))); // that’s it -- no more block return; } // end if } // end if // advance column position x1+=BLOCK_X_GAP; } // end for col // advance to next row position y1+=BLOCK_Y_GAP; } // end for row } // end Process_Ball /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// int Game_Main(void *parms) { // this is the workhorse of your game it will be called // continuously in real-time this is like main() in C // all the calls for you game go here!