February, 2020 | Learn C Games Programming Blog

Month: February 2020

Fast Random Number Generators in C

Posted on February 29, 2020March 1, 2020 by David

Today I found out about Romu (Rotate and Multiply) random number generators. Typically I’ve been using srand() in my asteroids game, so this is well worth a look. Their code page lists functions, so they should be easy to plugin.

Learn C Games

Posted on February 29, 2020December 5, 2022 by David

This blog is about C and Games programming (in C mainly). It’s written by David Bolton, author of the Learn C Games Programming for beginners EBook. This is the Windows version, with a Raspberry Pi/Linux one due out isometime n 2021.

The first 20 chapters introduce and teach C programming with many examples. This link is to an .mp4 of the asteroids game from the book. It’s about 90 seconds long and demonstrates all of the features of the game. High score table, rotating asteroids (four sizes), sound, explosions, ship hyper-jump and shields.

The remaining 30 chapters builds up to full source code, about 2,000 lines, in 13 stages and I explain how each feature works and is implemented. All of the book’s source code is on Github. More about me. Buy it on Amazon(UK), Amazon(US).