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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• I Foundations
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Structure of a Typical Game Team
• 1.2 What Is a Game?
• 1.3 What Is a Game Engine?
• 1.4 Engine Differences across Genres
• 1.5 Game Engine Survey
• 1.6 Runtime Engine Architecture
• 1.7 Tools and the Asset Pipeline
• 2 Tools of the Trade
• 2.1 Version Control
• 2.2 Compilers, Linkers and IDEs
• 2.3 Profiling Tools
• 2.4 Memory Leak and Corruption Detection
• 2.5 Other Tools
• 3 Fundamentals of Software Engineering for Games
• 3.1 C++ Review and Best Practices
• 3.2 Catching and Handling Errors
• 3.3 Data, Code and Memory Layout
• 3.4 Computer Hardware Fundamentals
• 3.5 Memory Architectures
• 4 Parallelism and Concurrent Programming
• 4.1 Defining Concurrency and Parallelism
• 4.2 Implicit Parallelism
• 4.3 Explicit Parallelism
• 4.4 Operating System Fundamentals
• 4.5 Introduction to Concurrent Programming
• 4.6 Thread Synchronization Primitives
• 4.7 Problems with Lock-Based Concurrency
• 4.8 Some Rules of Thumb for Concurrency
• 4.9 Lock-Free Concurrency
• 4.10 SIMD/Vector Processing
• 4.11 Introduction to GPGPU Programming
• 5 3D Math for Games
• 5.1 Solving 3D Problems in 2D
• 5.2 Points and Vectors
• 5.3 Matrices
• 5.4 Quaternions
• 5.5 Comparison of Rotational Representations
• 5.6 Other Useful Mathematical Objects
• 5.7 Random Number Generation
• II Low-Level Engine Systems
• 6 Engine Support Systems
• 6.1 Subsystem Start-Up and Shut-Down
• 6.2 Memory Management
• 6.3 Containers
• 6.4 Strings
• 6.5 Engine Configuration
• 7 Resources and the File System
• 7.1 File System
• 7.2 The Resource Manager
• 8 The Game Loop and Real-Time Simulation
• 8.1 The Rendering Loop
• 8.2 The Game Loop
• 8.3 Game Loop Architectural Styles
• 8.4 Abstract Timelines
• 8.5 Measuring and Dealing with Time
• 8.6 Multiprocessor Game Loops
• 9 Human Interface Devices
• 9.1 Types of Human Interface Devices
• 9.2 Interfacing with a HID
• 9.3 Types of Inputs
• 9.4 Types of Outputs
• 9.5 Game Engine HID Systems
• 9.6 Human Interface Devices in Practice
• 10 Tools for Debugging and Development
• 10.1 Logging and Tracing
• 10.2 Debug Drawing Facilities
• 10.3 In-Game Menus
• 10.4 In-Game Console
• 10.5 Debug Cameras and Pausing the Game
• 10.6 Cheats
• 10.7 Screenshots and Movie Capture
• 10.8 In-Game Profiling
• 10.9 In-Game Memory Stats and Leak Detection
• III Graphics, Motion and Sound
• 11 The Rendering Engine
• 11.1 Foundations of Depth-Buffered Triangle Rasterization
• 11.2 The Rendering Pipeline
• 11.3 Advanced Lighting and Global Illumination
• 11.4 Visual Effects and Overlays
• 11.5 Further Reading
• 12 Animation Systems
• 12.1 Types of Character Animation
• 12.2 Skeletons
• 12.3 Poses
• 12.4 Clips
• 12.5 Skinning and Matrix Palette Generation
• 12.6 Animation Blending
• 12.7 Post-Processing
• 12.8 Compression Techniques
• 12.9 The Animation Pipeline
• 12.10 Action State Machines
• 12.11 Constraints
• 13 Collision and Rigid Body Dynamics
• 13.1 Do You Want Physics in Your Game?
• 13.2 Collision/Physics Middleware
• 13.3 The Collision Detection System
• 13.4 Rigid Body Dynamics
• 13.5 Integrating a Physics Engine into Your Game
• 13.6 Advanced Physics Features
• 14 Audio
• 14.1 The Physics of Sound
• 14.2 The Mathematics of Sound
• 14.3 The Technology of Sound
• 14.4 Rendering Audio in 3D
• 14.5 Audio Engine Architecture
• 14.6 Game-Specific Audio Features
• IV Gameplay
• 15 Introduction to Gameplay Systems
• 15.1 Anatomy of a Game World
• 15.2 Implementing Dynamic Elements: Game Objects
• 15.3 Data-Driven Game Engines
• 15.4 The Game World Editor
• 16 Runtime Gameplay Foundation Systems
• 16.1 Components of the Gameplay Foundation System
• 16.2 Runtime Object Model Architectures
• 16.3 World Chunk Data Formats
• 16.4 Loading and Streaming Game Worlds
• 16.5 Object References and World Queries
• 16.6 Updating Game Objects in Real Time
• 16.7 Applying Concurrency to Game Object Updates
• 16.8 Events and Message-Passing
• 16.9 Scripting
• 16.10 High-Level Game Flow
• V Conclusion
• 17 You Mean There’s More?
• 17.1 Some Engine Systems We Didn’t Cover
• 17.2 Gameplay Systems
• Bibliography
• Index