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Game Development in C++

This document is a term project proposal submitted by four students to develop games in C++. They plan to first create basic games like Pong and Snake to build their understanding of game development fundamentals. Their objectives are to learn logic, program design, AI, the game loop, input/output through these initial games. Their methodology is to first brush up on C++ basics and then spend the first two months developing Pong, Snake, and Space Invaders, with the remaining time spent on Game of Life. Their goal is to gain experience making games in C++ that will prepare them for more advanced projects involving graphics and AI.

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Game Development in C++

This document is a term project proposal submitted by four students to develop games in C++. They plan to first create basic games like Pong and Snake to build their understanding of game development fundamentals. Their objectives are to learn logic, program design, AI, the game loop, input/output through these initial games. Their methodology is to first brush up on C++ basics and then spend the first two months developing Pong, Snake, and Space Invaders, with the remaining time spent on Game of Life. Their goal is to gain experience making games in C++ that will prepare them for more advanced projects involving graphics and AI.

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Creating Games in C++

TERM PROJECT PROPOSAL

Submitted By- Harshit Gupta (184013)


Nitin Harjait (184012)
Avnish Gautam (184008)
Sachin Bhardwaj (184014)

Under the guidance of- Dr. Sankalita Biswas (Assistant Professor)

Submitted to- Dr. Abhijit Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING


NIT HAMIRPUR
Introduction:
Gaming is an industry which generates billions of dollars in profits each year. One of the major
programming languages in which games are written include C++.
For our project, we want to make some simple games using C++ so that we can build a strong base
and understanding of how game development is done using C++. The basic knowledge of logic
building and problem solving that we would be able to able to gain from this project would enable
us to dive deeper into the industry in the future and would prove very beneficial.
We plan to first work on and make some very basic games like Pong, and then progress towards
more logic and code heavy games like Snake, Space Invaders etc.

Literature Survey:
For AAA titles on PC and consoles - nearly all of them use C++, there are a few exceptions - but
C++ is by far the most likely. It’s by far the fastest language for general purpose use - and speed
tends to be of the essence in most parts of a AAA title.
For past few years, most of the game companies have been developing their own game engines,
which are written majorly using C++ only.
Thus, the journey to the world of game development in C++ starts with developing same basic
games like the ones we intend to complete in our project.
The main source for our motivation and idea behind this project is this article:
https://www.cprogramming.com/gameprogramming.html
and this text-book written by David Conger and Ron Little:
Creating Games in C++ : A Step-by-Step Guide.
Publisher: New Riders
Pub Date: February 21, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-7357-1434-7
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7357-1434-2

These texts do not only tell about how C++ programming relates to gaming, but also mentions
the fact that in order to become a successful game developer, you first have to understand the
application of loops and pointers in C++ and how they are implemented in games, which we
intend to learn with this project idea.
Objectives to be carried out:
We aim to work on following core concepts behind any real-time game:
• Logic
• Basic Program Design
• Basic AI
• The game loop
• How a game updates over time
• The basics of game input and output
To learn these concepts, we intend to work on the following games:
1. Pong - This game falls on the simpler side of developing a game and makes one ready to
dive deeper into the world of game development.
2. Snake – Needing no introduction, this game is one of the must do in order to understand
the gaming loop.
3. Space Invaders – Blast alien spaceships as they fire weapons at you.
4. Game of Life- A cellular automation and simulation devised by John H. Conway.

Methodology to be accepted:
Just like any C++ project, following steps would be taken in order to achieve the final goal:
1. Brush up basics of C++ (loops etc.)
2. For the first two months, work on development of Pong and Snake and Space Invaders.
3. For the remaining time, work on the Game of Life.

If the time permits and we are able to complete these 4 games well in time, we shall move towards
the graphical aspects of games and would implement graphics in Pong and Snakes.

Outcome- At the end of this project, we hope to have gained enough experience and knowledge
about making games using C++ that we can aim towards the games with integrated graphics and
some AI.

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