Book Description

Using Clickteam Fusion, you will learn how to make a basic tank game with this book and the free resources that come with it.Give yourself a strong head start in computer game design with our Game Programming Starter books, which are published fresh in 2015. Through these books you will learn how computer games work and how simple games may be created using ready-made resources and modern drag-and-drop game engines.This book focuses on 2-player tank game creation. We assume you are totally new to game programming. To make things easy for you, we use simple language throughout the book. And we simplify many of the technical terms into something more straight forward and human friendly. Many trade jargons are intentionally skipped.You need to be computer literate. You should know how to use Windows (Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 ...etc). And you should have a reasonably configured computer system. A dual core processor with 2GB+ of RAM, several GBs of free drive space that hold the resource files, and an active internet connection are all necessary.TOC:LICENSE AGREEMENT 3LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 4ABOUT THE STARTER SERIES 5BASIC REQUIREMENTS 6LEARNING GOALS 7THE TARGET PLATFORM 8TOOLS AND RESOURCES 9LESSON 1 - THE CONCEPT OF OBJECTS 13LESSON 2 - THE CONCEPT OF SCREEN COORDINATES 17LESSON 3 - ACCEPTING USER INPUT 24LESSON 3 CON'T - ABOUT THE EVENT EDITOR 28LESSON 3 CON'T - PROCESSING USER INPUT 32LESSON 3 CON'T - MORE ABOUT THE EVENT EDITOR 36LESSON 4 - THE CONCEPT OF COLLISION AND BOUNDARIES 40WALKING THROUGH EXERCISE SET 1 50LESSON 5 - PATH MOVEMENT 59LESSON 6 - MANIPULATING OTHER OBJECTS 62LESSON 6 CON'T - RELATIVE POSITIONING 67LESSON 6 CON'T - STORYBOARD CONTROL 70WALKING THROUGH EXERCISE SET 2 71LESSON 7 - SPRITES AND ANIMATION SEQUENCES 72WALKING THROUGH EXERCISE SET 3 78LESSON 8 AND EXERCISE SET 4 79ADDING SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC 84WHAT IS NEXT? 85