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SFML Game Development
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SFML Game Development

by Jan Haller, Henrik Valter Vogelius, Artur Moreira
June 2013
Beginner to intermediate
296 pages
6h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reading through this chapter, you learned a whole new mechanism to handle input and deliver it correctly to the game's entities. It may not be the simplest concept you will come across, but it certainly pays off later, when you see it under heavier action. Not only have we played with event delivering systems, but we also paid a lot of attention on how to capture input and handle every detail about it. This is essential for every game, after all, who would like to play a game that plays itself?

After having a basic world scene with robust behaviors and features, it is now time to start looking at other phases of a game's development. In other words, the next chapter will cover mechanisms which are not directly related to the game's mechanics ...

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