Introduction to Game Physics with Box2D

1Read Me First

Before we get started, let’s take a look at why this book exists, what I expect you to know before you can start reading it, what the stuff inside will be like stylistically, and what you can expect to get out of it if you put a reasonable amount of effort into it.

● 1.1 Why Does This Book Exist?

One thing that has changed in academia over the last 30 years is that we professors are no longer the Source of All Knowledge. In 1984 when I started out as a young assistant professor, the books and papers that we taught from were sparse and often difficult to obtain. Happily, the Internet has changed all that. Knowledge is everywhere. What we need to teach students now is understanding,¹ not knowledge, which is something that we would ...