"Game Programming Gems 4" is an all new volume in this must-have series. It is filled with ready-to-use expert techniques, ideas, and solutions for game developers, and includes many innovative solutions that have been used successfully in commercial projects.

The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.

Presents articles by artificial intelligence programmers that discuss techniques, concepts, architectures, and philosophies of AI game programming.

Accompanying disk contains ... "all of the code from all four volumes."--Page 4 of cover.

This book brings the insights of game professionals, DCC creators, hardware vendors, and current researchers together into a collection that focuses on the most underrepresented and critical part of game production: tools development. The first gems-type book dedicated to game tools, this volume focuses on practical, implementable tools for game de

This book, the second volume in the popular Game Engine Gems series, contains short articles that focus on a particular technique, describe a clever trick, or offer practical advice within the subject of game engine development. The 31 chapters cover three broad categories-graphics and rendering, game engine design, and systems programming. Profess

Every topic covered in this book can be directly applied to games that cross genres. The CD includes trial versions of Paintshop Pro 7, a compiler, a 3D modeling tool and more.