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Direct2.5D - 2D games in Direct3D

This tutorial shows how to do Yaboc (the game I used for my DirectDraw tutorial) using Direct3D. Making use of 3D acceleration functions of your videocard is a great opportunity for 2D applications too. See how easy it is to write a 2D game in Direct3D. I think this even beats DirectDraw. Now that all parts of this tutorial are published, the complete document is available as downloadable zip file for offline browsing as well (go to the last part's download page for that).

Originally, this tutorial made use of the Managed DirectX 2.0 API developed by Microsoft. With the introduction of the new XNA framework, work on this API has been discontinued. The existing beta version expired on October 5th 2006 and can't be used anymore. I have reverted all parts of this tutorial back to Managed DirectX 1.1 (which still is supported and will continue to work). It works with the DirectX SDK of April 2007 and also Windows Vista (32 bit) is supported.

Donnerstag, 19 Januar 2006	Part 1: Basic structure
Freitag, 20 Januar 2006	Part 2: Game class and 3D device
Freitag, 20 Januar 2006	Part 3: DirectInput
Freitag, 20 Januar 2006	Part 4: As time goes by
Sonntag, 22 Januar 2006	Part 5: Sprites
Sonntag, 22 Januar 2006	Part 6: Game states
Montag, 23 Januar 2006	Part 7: Shutdown and gameplay
Montag, 23 Januar 2006	Part 8: More gameplay
Montag, 23 Januar 2006	Part 9: Blocks and collision detection

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