Understanding Game Application Development (eBook)

Vincent works as a senior software engineer in a research and development company, focusing mainly on web and mobile technologies. He is a nine-time Microsoft MVP, three-time C# Corner MVP, CodeProject MVP, Microsoft Influencer, DZone MVB and a regular contributor at CodeProject, CsharpCorner, Microsoft TechNet Wiki, AspSnippets and Xamarin. He also contributes at the official Microsoft ASP.NET community site where he became one of the all-time top answerers with All-Star recognition level (the highest attainable level). He authored a few e-books for C# Corner: GridView Control Pocket Guide, ASP.NET MVC 5: A Beginner’s Guide and is now working on a new book entitled ASP.NET Core 2: A Beginner’s Guide. He runs a blog at http://vmsdurano.com, created a few open-source projects that are hosted on Codeplex and GitHub. He also developed VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core and VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Net NuGet packages.

Chapter 1:  Introduction Chapter Goal: An overview of the book and topics to be covered including tools and framework installation guide.

No of pages    15

Sub -Topics

1.      Background

2.      What is a Working Memory?

3.      What You Will Lean

4.      Development Tools Download Resource

5.      Installation Guide

6.      Prerequisites

7.      Five Players, One Goal

Chapter 2:  Getting Started Chapter Goal: To present game objective, application flow, preparing the workspace and database setup.

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics  

1.      Game Objective

2.      Application Flow

3.      Creating the Workspace

4.       The Required NuGet Packages

5.      Setting Up a New Database

Chapter 3:  Configure Data Access and API Endpoints Chapter Goal: To configure data access for handling CRUD operations and as well as defining the necessary API endpoints.

No of pages : 15

Sub - Topics: 

1.      Integrating Entity Framework

2.      Setting Up a Data Access

3.   Implementing CRUD operations

4.   The Web API Endpoints

5.   Enabling CORS

Chapter 4:  Building the Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms Chapter Goal: To build a mobile that allow users to register and login into the app. To implement a simple game to test how sharp their memory is and to be able to sync their highest scores/level in real-time in the database.

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

1.      Creating the Mobile App Project

2.      Implementing Platform Specific Services for iOS and Android

3.      Setting Permissions

 

Chapter 5: Deployment and Installation Chapter Goal: Deploy and install the mobile app in real device.

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1.      Android

2.      iOS

3.      Output

Chapter 6: Building a Real-time Leaderboard Chapter Goal: To provide a website that displays user rankings in real-time using ASP.NET MVC and SignalR.

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics:

1.      What is ASP.NET MVC?

2.      What is ASP.NET SignalR?

3.      Integrating ASP.NET SignalR

4.      Adding a Middleware

5.      Adding a Hub

6.      Adding an MVC Controller

7.      Adding a View

8.      Output

Chapter 7: Pushing Your Code to GitHubChapter Goal: To provide summary of what was learned from all the chapters, source code and other resource references.

No of pages: 13

Sub - Topics:

1.      Github Repository and Source Code2.      References