Hi, Well, yes and no. A lot depends on what programming language you intend to use. I know of several older books on game programming that were pretty good books for the time they were written, but I'd have to first know in advance what language you were intending to program in. It Wouldn't work for me to suggest a book on creating games in Java if you were intending to write games in C or C++. It also would help to know if there any specific APIs you were intending to support and use, because there is a great deal of latitude in game programming APIs. Besides a lot of the books I studied are out of date in terms of latest APIs and might not be the best place to begin for someone just coming to the table as a new programmer.
What I mean by that I did most of my reading and studying around 10 years ago in the early 2000's. At the time everyone was using DirectX 8 components like DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectPlay,etc. Now, for all intents and purposes DirectX 8 is a dead end. Its now deprecated, reserved as legacy support, and if you want to get into Windows game programming you need to learn about XInput, XAudio2, and all the newer components now available in DirectX. I don't really know of any specific books on that subject since I've frankly haven't needed to. I can get the basics by reading the API documentation. As far as sound encryption it is not something you can just pick up a book on and read. There are certain things that are a guarded secret in the programming industry and sound encryption happens to be one of them. Besides you may not even need it. Unless you intend to be some big time game commercial game developer sound encryption is a lot of work for very little gain. If you are that concerned about it using something like BGT is your best bet since Philip Bennefall has done the work of creating the basics of creating an encrypted packfile and sound encryption . I guess before we make a big deal over sound encryption let us first see if it is absolutely necessary. Cheers! On 9/14/14, Kaveinthran Pulanthran <[email protected]> wrote: > do you have some title to suggest, where it's related to game > programming? and, do you have any suggestion for me to read about > sound inscription? --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
