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2D games are hugely popular across a wide range of platforms and the ideal place to start if you´re new to game development. With Learn 2D Game Development with C sharp, you´ll learn your way around the building blocks of game development and how to put them together to create real working games.
C sharp is increasingly becoming the language of choice for new game developers. Productive and easier to learn than C++, C sharp lets you get your games working quickly and safely without worrying about tricky low-level details like memory management. Making use of MonoGame, an open source framework that´s powerful, free to use and easy to handle, this book will get you building and publishing 2D games in no time, for a fantastic range of platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, MAC OSX and Playstation Mobile.
Learn 2D Game Development with C sharp simplifies 2D game development into essential elements: frame, camera, objects, and sprites, and the logic and simple physics that determines how they interact. In each chapter, you´ll explore a key element of game development in the context of a working game, learn how to implement the example for yourself, and integrate it into your own game library.
At the end of the book, you´ll put everything you´ve learned together to build a full working game. And what´s more, you´ll understand the principles that all great games are built on, and your game library will be full of the building blocks to start creating your own.

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Introducing 2D Game Development in C sharp
Getting to Know the MonoGame Framework
2D Graphics, Coordinates, and Game State
Getting Things Moving
Pixel-Accurate Collisions
Game Object States and Semiautonomous Behaviors
Sprites, Camera, Action!
Particle Systems
Working with Mobile Sensors for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Building and Publishing Your First 2D Game

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Kelvin Sung is a Professor with the Computing and Software Systems at University of Washington Bothell (UWB). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. His background is in computer graphics, hardware, and machine architecture. He came to UWB from Alias Wavefront (now part of Autodesk) in Toronto, where he played a key role in designing and implementing the Maya Renderer, an Academy Award-winning image generation system. Before joining Alias Wavefront, Kelvin was an Assistant Professor with the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Kelvin´s research interests are in studying the role of technology in supporting human communication. Funded by Microsoft Research and the National Science Foundation, Kelvin´s recent work focused on the intersection of video game mechanics, real-world problems, and mobile technologies. Kelvin teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes in Computer Graphics, Game Development, and Mobile Computing.

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