GRAPHICS FOR GAME PROGRAMMING

UNIT I 3D GRAPHICS FOR GAME PROGRAMMING 9

3D Transformations, 
Quaternions, 
3D Modeling and Rendering, 
Ray Tracing, 
Shader Models, 
Lighting, Color, 
Texturing, Camera and 
Projections, 
Culling and Clipping, 
Character Animation, 
Physics-based Simulation, 
Scene Graphs.

UNIT II GAME ENGINE DESIGN 9

Game engine architecture, 

Engine support systems, 

Resources and File systems, 

Game loop and real-time simulation, 
Human Interface devices, 

Collision and rigid body dynamics, 

Game profiling.

UNIT III GAME PROGRAMMING 9

Application layer, 
Game logic, 
Game views, 
managing memory, 
controlling the main loop,
 loading and caching game data, 
User Interface management, 
Game event management.

UNIT IV GAMING PLATFORMS AND FRAMEWORKS 9

2D and 3D Game development using Flash, DirectX, Java, Python, Game engines - DX Studio, Unity

UNIT V GAME DEVELOPMENT 9

Developing 2D and 3D interactive games using DirectX or Python – Isometric and Tile Based Games, Puzzle games, Single Player games, and Multi Player games

·         Mike Mc Shaffrfy and David Graham, “Game Coding Complete”, Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning, PTR, 2012.

·         Jason Gregory, “Game Engine Architecture”, CRC Press / A K Peters, 2009.

·         David H. Eberly, “3D Game Engine Design, Second Edition: A Practical Approach to Real-Time Computer Graphics” 2nd Editions, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006.

REFERENCES:

·         Ernest Adams and Andrew Rollings, “Fundamentals of Game Design”, 2nd Edition Prentice Hall / New Riders, 2009.

·         Eric Lengyel, “Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics”, 3rd Edition, Course Technology PTR, 2011.

·         Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses, 1st Edition, CRC Press, 2008.