Hi,

I got the book a few months ago. I think there are some good sections. The author of the book focuses on "race cars", but surly some of the topics he addresses can be put into practice in other games or demos. Overall, its a book for beginners and covers some good topics.


S.

Blush.

I found the book to be a horrible read and a poor source of useful information. The down loadable code is literally hundreds of megabytes and the source code is hardly readable and very buggy. I was not able to get through chapter three without downloading his 'library' which loads a ppm image.

I don't mean to put down the book or the programmer, but I just had a bad experience and lost a few hours and enough money to buy another book I actually wanted at the time. As a plus, I did buy Game Coding Complete 2nd edition with it (so it wasn't all bad).

Sorry for the bad review. If anyone can say something positive about the book to balance this out... That would be great.

Maybe you were just looking for the wrong information?

And though the source code may be buggy, it still works and allows for an example of the ideas expressed in the book.

But to each his own i suposs.

You do have a very good point. I did go into reading the book expecting something specific. That alone can ruin an experience.

Originally posted by mrmike
Blush.

About that, when can we expect the third edition?
Me and my pals uses GCC 2nd ed as our bible.

If Mike ever made a third edition, it would be so huge that he'd put Knuth's three-tome series to shame.

-Rez

Originally posted by rezination
If Mike ever made a third edition, it would be so huge that he'd put Knuth's three-tome series to shame.

-Rez

And fasciles - don't forget those, though I've yet to pick any of them up. Still working my way through the core set - lol.