Chapter 1. A Chronology of Game Programming
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KEY TOPICS
Phase I: Before Spacewar
Phase II: Spacewar to Atari
Phase III: Game Consoles and Personal Computers
Phase IV: Shakedown and Consolidation
Phase V: The Advent of the Game Engine
Phase VI: The Handheld Revolution
Phase VII: The Cellular Phenomenon
Phase VIII: Multiplayer Games
In Closing
The art and science of game development have experienced a huge progression since the early days. Hardware has improved by orders of magnitude, whereas game complexity and richness have simply exploded. To better understand how games are coded today, and why, it is essential to ...
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