Start Your Engines
Start Your Engines
Developing Racing and Driving Games (First edition)
About the Book
This was the first hands-on programming guide that shows you how to build and customize driving and racing games. It features graphics, physics, AI, user interface, collision detection and 3D techniques needed to create this popular genre of computer game. You'll learn how to set up different types of road conditions, create opponents, set up road hazards, generate weather conditions, manage collisions, design unique terrains, and much more.
Presented in a unique step-by-step construction kit approach, this book will show you how to build games that you can play for hours of enjoyment. It walks you through the design and construction of a dune buggy race on the surface of Mars.
Start Your Engines was originally published in 2005, but the publisher quickly went out of business. Not because of this book, to be sure.
About the Author
Table of Contents
Part I Essentials of Developing Racing and Driving Games
Chapter 1 Starting Your Engines – Basic Design Elements 3
Chapter 2 Game Architecture for Racing and Driving Games 22
Chapter 3 Basic Graphics for Racing and Driving Games 47
Chapter 4 Building a Basic 3D Driving Game 82
Part II Building More Realistic Simulations
Chapter 5 Game AI and Collision Detection 99
Chapter 6 Incorporating Intelligent Components 123
Chapter 7 Audio for Racing and Driving Games 152
Chapter 8 Using Ambient Traffic 173
Chapter 9 Physics for Racing and Driving Games 190
Chapter 10 Simulating Continuous Time 213
Part III Advanced Techniques
Chapter 11 Cinematography for Racing and Driving Games 243
Chapter 12 Creating Terrains 259
Chapter 13 Designing the Manic Mars Racer Game 288
Chapter 14 Coding the Manic Mars Racer Game 305
Appendix A High-Concept Design Document for Gopher-it 326
Appendix B Math Tutorial for Developing Driving and Racing Games 330
Other books by this author
The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earnedover $14 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
