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COMPUTE!'S CREATING ARCADE GAMES ON THE TI-99/4A

Seth McEvoy



 

You'll quickly be creating your own action games on the TI-99/4A when you use this step-by-step guide to game programming. Here's everything you need to design and write video games, including:

  • Creating your own custom game figures and characters

  • Moving figures around the screen

  • Using the keyboard or joystick to control movement

  • Vertical and horizontal scrolling of the screen

  • Coloring the game characters and background

  • Animation Drawing game mazes

  • Making sound effects with the TI

  • Creating and moving sprites with TI Extended BASIC

  • A step-by-step process for designing and writing your own games

  • How to test and debug a game

  • And eight complete games for you to type in and play


Best of all, you'll see several finished games and how each works. You'll be able to follow the programs line-by-line, seeing how programming techniques work in game situations. You'll learn all the necessary techniques to create a wide variety of effective, exciting video games.


Whether you're just beginning to program on the TI-99/4A or have been computing for years, you'll find Creating Arcade Games on the TI-9974A a valuable resource, a book you'll turn to again and again as you write action-packed video games.

 

PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE

BINDING

EDITION

ISBN

YEAR

PAGES

English

Paperback


0942386272

1984

210

 

TAGS


Authors: #SethMcEvoy

Publishers: #COMPUTEPublications (COMPUTE! Publications, Inc.)

Languages: #English

Format: #Paperback

Accessibility: N/A

Year: #Year1984


Companies:

#TexasInstruments (TI, Texas Instruments)


Public Figures:

N/A


Games:

#HoboParty (Hobo Party)

#MartianAttack (Martian Attack)

#MartianRevenge (Martian Revenge)

#Moneybags (Moneybags)

#Mushrooms (Mushrooms)

#Riverboat (Riverboat)

#Shark (Shark)


Misc:

#TI4A (TI-4A)

#TI99 (TI-99)

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