Learning C# by Programming Games

Arjan Egges is an associate professor in the Games and Virtual Worlds group in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Heading the Motion Capture Lab there, his current research focuses on the integration of motion capture animation into navigation and object manipulation tasks. He regularly teaches various courses related to games and computer animation, and recently designed the new introductory programming course for the university’s new Game Technology bachelor program, using C# as the language of choice.Jeroen Fokker is an assistant professor in the Software Technology group at Utrecht University. As the director of education, he is responsible for the undergraduate programs in Computer Science and Information Science. He has been teaching introductory programming courses for over 20 years, using C++, Haskell, Java, and C#, as well as courses on compiler construction.Mark H. Overmars is a full professor in computer science at Utrecht University. Here he has done research into computational geometry, robotics, and game technology. Mark is responsible for the Game Technology educational program at Utrecht University. Furthermore, he is the author of the Game Maker software package, originally designed as a tool to teach children about the basics of object-oriented design and to raise their interest in computer science. The package, though, has developed into a full-blown authoring package for games used in education by amateurs and by professional game developers. Mark was named as one of the top 50 influential people in game development by the U.S. magazine GameDeveloper in 2010.

• Part I Getting Started.- Building Your First Game Application.- Programming.- Game Programming Basics.- Creating a Game World.- Part II Creating Colorful Games.- Knowing what the Player is Doing.- Reacting to Player Input.- Basic Game Objects.- Adding Interaction.- A Limited Number of Lives.- Organizing Game Objects.- Finishing the Game.- Part III Structures and Patterns.- Collections of Game Objects.- Fullscreen Games.- Game Objects in a Structure.- Redesigning the Game World.- Gameplay Programming.- Game States.- Finishing the Game.- Part IV Making Your Games Appealing.- Sprite Sheets.- Menus and Settings.- Game State Management.- Loading Levels from Files.- Pairing the Penguins.- Finishing the Game.- Part V Animation and Complexity.- Creating the Main Game Structure.- Animation.- Game Physics.- Intelligent Enemies.- Adding Player Interaction.- Finishing the Game.