青少年Visual Basic游戏编程入门第三版教程

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"Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens, Third Edition" 是一本面向青少年的Visual Basic游戏编程入门教材，由 Jonathan Harbour 编写，隶属于 CourseTechnology PTR，隶属于Cengage Learning 公司。这本书在全球多个地区发行，包括澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国、墨西哥、新加坡、西班牙、英国和美国。该教材旨在通过实践和理论相结合的方式，让读者掌握基础的Visual Basic编程技巧，并运用这些技能来设计和制作简单的游戏。本书内容覆盖了Visual Basic的基础概念，如变量、数据类型、控制结构（如循环和条件语句）、函数和对象，这些都是游戏开发的基础。书中特别强调了面向对象编程在游戏设计中的应用，因为游戏往往涉及到复杂的用户交互和游戏逻辑。此外，作者还可能介绍了如何利用Visual Basic的图形用户界面（GUI）元素创建游戏界面，以及如何处理事件和响应玩家输入。第三版的更新可能包括了对最新版本的Visual Basic语言特性的介绍，比如.NET框架的改进，以及与Windows平台兼容性增强的相关内容。书中可能包含了一些示例项目，供读者跟随教程逐步学习，从简单的文字冒险游戏到更复杂的2D或3D图形游戏，以便于读者通过实际操作加深理解。技术评审员 Joshua Smith 的参与确保了内容的专业性和准确性，而封面设计、排版、校对等工作由Mike Tanamachi、MPS Limited、Larry Sweazy和Sara Gullion等专业人员完成，以保证最终产品的质量。版权方面，所有内容受到保护，未经许可不得任何形式复制、传播或存储。 "Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens, Third Edition" 是一本实用的教育资源，适合对编程有兴趣，尤其是游戏开发感兴趣的青少年，它提供了一个系统的学习路径，帮助他们在享受游戏的同时，培养编程技能和解决问题的能力。

Before you can get to the point where you are able to design an adventure and

build an RPG with Visual Basic, you will need to learn the language. My goal with

this book is to teach you just what you need to know in order to make this happen.

You will learn what you need to know to construct an RPG. You might choose to

use a product such as RPG Maker (on the PlayStation 2), rather than writing your

own RPG with Visual Basic. That is certainly a good alternative, but wouldn’titbe

better to have complete control over how the game works? Certainly you can

create many complete RPGs of your own design with RPG Maker in the time it

takes to build just one RPG from scratch by doing all of your own programming.

But in the end, you will have learned a promising skill—game programming! In

addition, you will have complete creative control over how the game operates, and

will be able to make many games from the same code and tools.

Pacing and Experience

This book reads like a hobby book, with no pressure and limited goals, because the

primary purpose of this book is to help you to have fun learning about game

programming. Typing in long source code listings out of a book is not fun, so I

don’t ask you to do that in this book. Instead, you will learn by studying the short

examples in each chapter, and over time you will get the hang of it. There is no

memorization required here, as I’maﬁrm believer that repetition and practice is

the best way to learn, not theory and memorization. The Celtic Crusader game is

built from one chapter to the next, with new features and gameplay elements

added in each new chapter. You will learn to create this game completely from

scratch in a very short amount of time.

The ﬁnished game in the last chapter includes all the source code to make your

own RPG with the features described above, including combat with monsters and

enemy NPCs; treasure and gold drops; creating items with the custom item editor;

picking up item drops; managing inventory with drag-drop; equipping gear with

buffs (stat modiﬁers) such as armor and weapons; creating NPCs with the

character editor; rolling new player characters; saving the game; creating the game

world with a custom level editor; and creating quests with the quest editor. Whew!

That sounds like a lot of work, but we make all of this happen in the pages of this

book, and you will have a playable, customizable RPG game system by the time

you reach the last chapter! In fact, why don’t you ﬂip to the last chapter now to see

what it looks like? I ’ ll wait here for you to return.

Introduction xv

Prerequisites

The goal of this book is to teach you how to create an RPG. You will beneﬁ t from a

basic knowledge of Visual Basic in advance, because beyond Chapter 2 we don’t

spend any time explaining the Visual Basic language. Programming an RPG is a

serious challenge, but if you pay attention and study the examples, you’ll be able to

do it! We cover the Basic language in Chapter 2, and Form programming in

Chapter 3, so you can refer to those chapters any time you have a question about

some of the code we’re going over. Celtic Crusader is a large game, and it’s very

hard to prog ram your own RPG! But I’ll try to explain it one step at a time. All of

the game editors are also covered in the book, but not in complete detail. So, we

cover the key code for the editors but don’t list all of the source code because that

would take up 500 pages!

Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Framework

This book supports Visual Basic 2008 and requires the .NET Framework 2.0 or

later. Although the project ﬁles are slightly different, the code is absolutely the

same for Visual Basic 2010 as well. If you have 2010 you will still be able to run all

of the code in the book, but you will have to import the projects to the 2010

format. I have left the projects in the 2008 format so that more readers will be able

to open the projects with either version. I recommend that you download the free

version of Visual Basic Express Edition. You can ﬁnd it at http://www.microsoft.

com/express/Downloads/#2010-Visual-Basic. Since web links change frequently,

I recommend you instead Google for “Visual Basic Express download.” There are

links to the 2008 version as well, but 2010 is now the ofﬁcially supported current

version so go ahead and use that version if you want. Just note that the 2008

projects will need to be imported when you open them in 2010. This should not

pose a problem; it’s just one additional step, and it allows us to support both

versions of Visual Basic. One caveat: the LuaInterface library requires the .NET

Framework 2.0, so when it comes to the script examples and the ﬁnal game project

in Chapter 20, you may need to create a new Visual Basic 2010 project and then

import the sources to it, in order for LuaInterface to work correctly. As an option,

an advanced reader may recompile LuaInterface with Visual Basic 2010 and then

use the later .NET Framework. If you feel confused about this issue, please visit

the author’s web forum with any questions (www.jharbour.com).

xvi Introduction

Managed DirectX Goes Away?

This book no longer uses Managed DirectX. The ﬁrst edition, published in 2004,

used Visual Basic 6.0 with the DirectX 8 type library. The second edition, pub-

lished in 2007, changed everything by switching to Visual Basic .NET 2005 and

Managed DirectX. This third edition changes everything again by using Visual

Basic .NET 2008 and. . . that’s all. DirectX is not required because we are not using

it any longer. Instead, this book has completely shifted to Windows Forms pro-

gramming with the Windows GDIþ (Graphics Device Interface). I made this

decision after so many readers contacted me with questions about Managed

DirectX not working right on their PCs. It was very difﬁcult, and further com-

plicated by the fact that it doesn’t work any longer with modern 64-bit Windows.

Contacting the Author

I maintain a website at http://www.jharbour.com, which has information about

this book that you may ﬁnd useful. This site also features an online forum where

you can pose questions and keep up to date with the latest discussions about

Visual Basic and Celtic Crusader with other programmers. If you have any

problems working through this book, stop by the site to chat.

Book Contents

The book is divided into three major parts.

“Part I, Building Blocks,” includes eight chapters that form the foundation of the

role-playing game that is developed in the book. These chapters cover subjects like

Windows Forms, bitmaps, sprite animation, user input, collision detection, and

similar core subjects.

“Part II, Game World,” includes ﬁve chapters devoted to building the game

engine components needed to manage and render the game world in which the

player will live. The core of this game world is a tiled scroller and a level editor.

“Part III, Gameplay,” includes seven chapters that develop all of the gameplay

components of the role-playing game that make the game truly playable. This part

offers additional game editors and classes that make it possible to ﬁght monsters,

pick up treasure, manage the player’s inventory and equipped gear, gain

experience and level up, talk with NPCs, and go on quests. The ﬁnal game demo in

Introduction xvii

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