Updating Game Objects in Real Time
Every game engine, from the simplest to the most complex, requires some means of updating the inter…
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Loading and Streaming Game Worlds
To bridge the gap between the offline world editor and our runtime game object model, we need a way…
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Runtime Gameplay Foundation Systems
Most game engines provide a suite of runtime software components that together provide a framework …
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Introduction to Gameplay Systems
Up until now, everything we’ve talked about in this book has focused on technology. We’ve learned t…
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Multiplatform 3D Audio Engines
A number of powerful, ready-to-use cross-platform 3D audio engines are available. We’ll outline the…
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Mixing In-Game Cinematics
Under normal gameplay conditions, the listener or “virtual microphone” is typically positioned at o…
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Collision and Rigid Body Dynamics
I n the real world, solid objects are inherently, well. . . solid. They generally avoid doing impos…
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Animation Systems
The majority of modern 3D games revolve around characters—often human or humanoid, sometimes animal…
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The Rendering Engine
When most people think about computer and video games, the first thing that comes to mind is the st…
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Tools for Debugging and Development
Developing game software is a complex, intricate, math-intensive and error-prone business. So it sh…
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Human Interface Devices (HID)
Games are interactive computer simulations, so the human player(s) need some way of providing input…
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The Game Loop and Real-Time Simulation
Games are real-time, dynamic, interactive computer simulations. As such, time plays an incredibly i…
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Resources and the File System
Games are by nature multimedia experiences. A game engine therefore needs to be capable of loading …
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