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Title: Great Intro Book but a little light on some subjects.
Review: This is a great book about directx and being able to program games effectively in windows. It gives you all the knowledge you need to make a pretty decent 2D game(without the wrapper functions). My only gripe is that IDG seemed to impose a limit on the number of pages that he could put in a book. True, it wouldn't look good for a dummies book to be 1,200 pages like my friends book VC++ 6 is, but the book says so many times to either refer to the DirectX SDK documentation or the code on the CD. One time that it would of really been nice if this wasn't so is when he was talking about converting bitmaps to game surfaces but just gave a function to do the job. I know LaMothe wanted to write more because I had his book before called Game Programming in 21 days which was over a 1,000 pages but I would still think it is better than under 500. Reading that book though just shows how much easier Windows Game Programming is than DOS.
