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Game Engine Architecture, 3rd Edition

Name: Game Engine Architecture, 3rd Edition
Author: Jason Gregory
ISBN: 9781351974271

by Jason Gregory

July 2018

Beginner to intermediate

1240 pages

34h 30m

English

A K Peters/CRC Press

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Cover Page
Half Title page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
I Foundations
1 Introduction
1.1 Structure of a Typical Game Team1.2 What Is a Game?1.3 What Is a Game Engine?1.4 Engine Differences across Genres1.5 Game Engine Survey1.6 Runtime Engine Architecture1.7 Tools and the Asset Pipeline
2 Tools of the Trade
2.1 Version Control2.2 Compilers, Linkers and IDEs2.3 Profiling Tools2.4 Memory Leak and Corruption Detection2.5 Other Tools

3 Fundamentals of Software Engineering for Games
3.1 C++ Review and Best Practices3.2 Catching and Handling Errors3.3 Data, Code and Memory Layout3.4 Computer Hardware Fundamentals3.5 Memory Architectures
4 Parallelism and Concurrent Programming
4.1 Defining Concurrency and Parallelism4.2 Implicit Parallelism4.3 Explicit Parallelism4.4 Operating System Fundamentals4.5 Introduction to Concurrent Programming4.6 Thread Synchronization Primitives4.7 Problems with Lock-Based Concurrency4.8 Some Rules of Thumb for Concurrency4.9 Lock-Free Concurrency4.10 SIMD/Vector Processing4.11 Introduction to GPGPU Programming
5 3D Math for Games
5.1 Solving 3D Problems in 2D5.2 Points and Vectors5.3 Matrices5.4 Quaternions5.5 Comparison of Rotational Representations5.6 Other Useful Mathematical Objects5.7 Random Number Generation
II Low-Level Engine Systems
6 Engine Support Systems
6.1 Subsystem Start-Up and Shut-Down6.2 Memory Management6.3 Containers6.4 Strings6.5 Engine Configuration
7 Resources and the File System
7.1 File System7.2 The Resource Manager
8 The Game Loop and Real-Time Simulation
8.1 The Rendering Loop8.2 The Game Loop8.3 Game Loop Architectural Styles8.4 Abstract Timelines8.5 Measuring and Dealing with Time8.6 Multiprocessor Game Loops
9 Human Interface Devices
9.1 Types of Human Interface Devices9.2 Interfacing with a HID9.3 Types of Inputs9.4 Types of Outputs9.5 Game Engine HID Systems9.6 Human Interface Devices in Practice
10 Tools for Debugging and Development
10.1 Logging and Tracing10.2 Debug Drawing Facilities10.3 In-Game Menus10.4 In-Game Console10.5 Debug Cameras and Pausing the Game10.6 Cheats10.7 Screenshots and Movie Capture10.8 In-Game Profiling10.9 In-Game Memory Stats and Leak Detection
III Graphics, Motion and Sound
11 The Rendering Engine
11.1 Foundations of Depth-Buffered Triangle Rasterization11.2 The Rendering Pipeline11.3 Advanced Lighting and Global Illumination11.4 Visual Effects and Overlays11.5 Further Reading
12 Animation Systems
12.1 Types of Character Animation12.2 Skeletons12.3 Poses12.4 Clips12.5 Skinning and Matrix Palette Generation12.6 Animation Blending12.7 Post-Processing12.8 Compression Techniques12.9 The Animation Pipeline12.10 Action State Machines12.11 Constraints
13 Collision and Rigid Body Dynamics
13.1 Do You Want Physics in Your Game?13.2 Collision/Physics Middleware13.3 The Collision Detection System13.4 Rigid Body Dynamics13.5 Integrating a Physics Engine into Your Game13.6 Advanced Physics Features
14 Audio
14.1 The Physics of Sound14.2 The Mathematics of Sound14.3 The Technology of Sound14.4 Rendering Audio in 3D14.5 Audio Engine Architecture14.6 Game-Specific Audio Features
IV Gameplay
15 Introduction to Gameplay Systems
15.1 Anatomy of a Game World15.2 Implementing Dynamic Elements: Game Objects15.3 Data-Driven Game Engines15.4 The Game World Editor
16 Runtime Gameplay Foundation Systems
16.1 Components of the Gameplay Foundation System16.2 Runtime Object Model Architectures16.3 World Chunk Data Formats16.4 Loading and Streaming Game Worlds16.5 Object References and World Queries16.6 Updating Game Objects in Real Time16.7 Applying Concurrency to Game Object Updates16.8 Events and Message-Passing16.9 Scripting16.10 High-Level Game Flow
V Conclusion
17 You Mean There’s More?
17.1 Some Engine Systems We Didn’t Cover17.2 Gameplay Systems
Bibliography
Index

Overview

New to this edition: update the section on game console HW, extend the rendering chapter, include a section on 2D GUI, new chapter on multiplayer networking, more coverage of the Unity game engine.

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