50 Lectures on Game Programming in Visual Basic 6.0

Author: Dong Chuanyin
Publisher: Beijing Hope Electronic Press
Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is a specialized guide on game programming using Visual Basic 6.0. The games presented are classic, practical, and combine intelligence with fun. The book avoids common writing styles, with each chapter introducing a game, totaling 50 examples and chapters. The content is extensive, covering a wide variety of games, including both inspirational, small-scale games suitable for developing intelligence, such as puzzles, Gomoku, Minesweeper, and dice rolling; and highly interactive, multifunctional large-scale games like Go, Chinese Chess, Triangle War, and driving games. The game types include ball games, board games, racing, gambling, word guessing, and war, with programming ranging from graphics and multimedia technology to algorithms and Windows API.
This book is a specialized guide on game programming using Visual Basic 6.0, featuring classic, practical, and intellectually engaging games. The book avoids common writing styles, with each chapter introducing a game, totaling 50 examples and chapters. The content is extensive, covering a wide variety of games, including both inspirational, small-scale games suitable for developing intelligence, such as puzzles, Gomoku, Minesweeper, and dice rolling; and highly interactive, multifunctional large-scale games like Go, Chinese Chess, Triangle War, and driving games. The game types include ball games, board games, racing, gambling, word guessing, and war, with programming ranging from graphics and multimedia technology to algorithms and Windows API.
The book features concise text, clear structure, and clear objectives, combining game functions with program design. The examples are vivid and rich, making the book highly practical and instructive. It is suitable for professional programmers and hobbyists of VB programming as a self-study guide, as well as for students and teachers in related fields at universities and for participants in VB training classes. Technical questions from readers should be sent to ddmyheart@etang.com for contact with the author. The CD for this edition contains the source code for all the examples in the book.