How many times have you spent countless hours completely absorbed in conquering tire latest role-playing game? Want to experience tire thrill of creating your own captivating rote-playing game? This book is your guide to doing just that. Covering everything that you need to create a role-playing game-working with graphics and combat engines, handling players, and making your game multiplayer-capable - this book provides a detailed look at tire essential components of role-playing games. It begins with helpful information on storyline development and design issues specific to role-playing games and then progresses to programming basics and RPG-specific gaming code. Finally, wrap up your project with valuable tips for promoting, marketing, and publishing your game.

About the Author

Jim Adams has been programming since age nine. For the past 11 years, his main focus has been on C and C++. He stays active in the game programming community by writing technical articles and moderating a message forum on www.gamedev.net . He has contributed to several books on game development and maintains a core library of DirectX functions to assist in game development.

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