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
Genres: #Coding #EarlyYears
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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