C++ Game Development Primer

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents at a Glance
5. Contents
6. About the Author
7. About the Technical Reviewer
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
10. Chapter 1: Managing Memory for Game Developers
    1. Static Memory
    2. The C++ Stack Memory Model
    3. Working with Heap Memory
    4. Writing a Basic Single Threaded Memory Allocator
    5. Summary
11. Chapter 2: Useful Design Patterns for Game Development
    1. Using the Factory Patternin Games
    2. Decoupling with the Observer Pattern
    3. Easily Adding New Functionality with the Visitor Pattern
    4. Summary
12. Chapter 3: Using File IO to Save and Load Games
    1. What Is Serialization?
    2. The Serialization Manager
    3. Saving and Loading Text Adventure
    4. Summary
13. Chapter 4: Speeding Up Games with Concurrent Programming
    1. Running Text Adventure in Its Own Thread
    2. Sharing Data Between Threads Using Mutexes
    3. Using Futures and Promises
    4. Summary
14. Chapter 5: Supporting Multiple Platforms in C++
    1. Ensuring Types are the Same Size on Multiple Platforms
    2. Using the Preprocessor to Determine Target Platform
    3. Summary
15. Chapter 6: Text Adventure
    1. An Overview of Text Adventure
    2. Summary
16. Index