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Programming Linux Games 0th Edition

by Loki Software (Author), John R. Hall (Author), Loki Software Inc (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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Programming Linux Games discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very thorough discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of Linux game programming. Readers learn about the state of the Linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community.

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  1. ISBN-10
    1886411492
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1886411494
  3. Edition
    0
  4. Publisher
    No Starch Press
  5. Publication date
    August 1, 2001
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    415 pages
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From the Publisher

A great operating system for programmers and system administrators, Linux is also a great gaming platform, and the market is exploding. Linux users want to do everything under Linux—including playing computer games. And the Linux operating system is fast even without a fast processor, which means that even an older machine can be a great Linux gaming machine.

Gaming will continue to drive the adoption of Linux as an operating system. In fact, one game, Quake, has already indirectly contributed to the growth of Linux. Estimates are that over 60 percent of all dedicated Quake servers (for all versions on the Internet) are Linux machines.

From the Author

I wrote Programming Linux Games for the casual Linux hobbyist who wants to learn about game programming, as well as the professional game programmer or multimedia engineer who would like to gain a familiarity with the Linux platform.

I start with a birds-eye view of the game industry, and explore the elements that make up various types of games. After a quick review of Linux development tools and multimedia programming toolkits, I launch into the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), several audio playback APIs (OSS, ALSA, and ESD), the OpenAL environmental audio system, the Tcl scripting library, Linux's new framebuffer device API (fbdev). I also explain how to access the keyboard and mouse under Linux. These tools provide everything you need to create games and other multimedia applications for Linux, as well as port games from other platforms.

Programming Linux Games does not cover 3D graphics programming techniques, as OpenGL programming is more or less the same under any platform. However, there is a brief explanation of how to use SDL as an improved replacement for the popular GLUT toolkit.

~John R. Hall
August 22, 2001

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 0 edition (August 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 415 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1886411492
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1886411494
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Fernando Briceño
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a book that I wanted to have long ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2015
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This is a book that I wanted to have long ago, may be not up to date, but contains a lot of experience from Loki Games
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Modify the Code
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book to get anybody started with SDL!
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2014
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I programming In C++ as a hobby. I use this book to help me get a good grapes on SDL programming. Even though this book is written for C programmers, it did not take much for me to apply the information to my programming language of choice.
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joan v hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Best programming book!
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2018
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The best programming book I have readl
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Riccardo Audano
3.0 out of 5 stars decent but could have been much better
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2003
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I had high expectations from this book, coming as it was from a
company specialized in porting the most complex games to Linux.
Unfortunately it seems that the fall of Loki has brought down this book with it. As other readers have said it is a good SDL
primer (covering just the basics). Other APIS are mentioned but just ina cursory view. There is a whole chapter dedicated to the code of a sound player software whoch is really out of place here.. it looks more like the author stuffed it in since he for some reason had developed it and he thought it was marginally relevant.. A good point is the book is about a working 2D game, Penguin Warrion ( a spaceship against spaceship typical game ) but the game development is not properly explained.. it loks like the book is an appendix to the game and not the contrary... in short to really learn something you must go and scan the code on your own...
With a little bit more affort and time to give the book more depth and solidity it could have been a great beginner's text..too bad!
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eric brown
2.0 out of 5 stars good read
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2015
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Good book
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Matthew Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2002
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I got exactly everything I wanted from the book, had very a simple easy to understand path towards making games for linux, started small and covered all the topics that I was interested in. This is more of a entry book, and a good reference but it doesnt go to deep into some topics 3d gfx, physics but a great book nonetheless.
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Bruno A Nitrosso
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book: jsut make sure it is the one you are after
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2001
First and foremost: make sure this is what you are looking for,
even the best book will disappoint someone who is looking for something else!
If, like myself, you have some knowledge in computer science without being an expert and particularly have no expertise in Game Developping nor in MultiMedia and are yet curious about the topics then definetly go for it.
This book unveils pretty much all aspects game programming: graphics, audio, computer "AI", network gaming, etc.
Unveils, not exhausts: be warned. But this is just great when all you are after is understanding what is this about and decide eventually to dig deeper.
And everything is done with examples building up until you have developped with the author "your" first game : Penguin Warrior!
What would be great is to have a sequel with more advanced topics (3D, Scheme scripting, etc.): be many to buy it and maybe we will someday see it!
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sergio mujica
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2015
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