C++ Game Dev 0: Introduction
This is the first of a number of tutorials that will guide you through the development of a complete, full-featured game engine.
C++ Game Dev 1: Game Loop
In the first tutorial we will create our initial game loop and display our first window.
C++ Game Dev 2: First Draw
We Load an image from a file and draw it on-screen. We also briefly discuss platform-dependent code.
C++ Game Dev 3: Frame Rate Independent Movement
We build on our previous work and write the code that will move our Viking around the window. We’ll make sure to do this in a way that ensures the sprites movement speed will be the same (or very similar) irregardless of the hardware used to run our game.
C++ Game Dev 4: Bitmasks
We delve into the world of bits and bitwise operations. We create a bitmask class that we will make use of shortly in our game engines input system.
C++ Game Dev 5: Real Time Input
We begin to write our Input manager. We record keyboard input and how we can differentiate between a key that has just been pressed or has just been released.
C++ Game Dev 6: Scene Management
We create a scene management system for our game engine. A scene will contain the logic for a specific part of our game e.g. the main menu, game, and pause scenes.
C++ Game Dev 7: Components
If you’ve been following the tutorials up to this point, you’ll have a sprite that you can move around the screen using the keyboard. While this is a good start; we will, in the not too distant future, want to add additional functionality to our player object. At the very least we will want our player to have health, physics, a bounding box for collisions, and a way to animate its sprites. This is where the component system comes in, the focus of todays and next weeks tutorial.
C++ Game Dev 8: Components 2
In this tutorial we will re-implement the movement code that we previously used to move our sprite around the screen, but this time as a component. We’ll also create a transform component that will be attached to all of our games objects. This component will store the sprites position, rotation, and scale (although it will only store its position initially).
C++ Game Dev 9: Resource Management
As games become more complex, the issue of how to manage a games assets and resources is only becoming more difficult; which is why, even though we do not have many resources at the moment, it is a good idea to start the groundwork on what will become a robust and generic (it can handle any resource we throw at it) resource management system.