Getting started. Building your first game application -- Programming -- Game programming basics -- Creating a game world -- Creating colorful games. Knowing what the player is doing -- Reacting to player input -- Basic game objects -- Adding interaction -- A limited number of lives -- Organizing game objects -- Finishing the game -- Structures and patterns. Collections of game objects -- Fullscreen games -- Game objects in a structure -- Redesigning the game world -- Gameplay programming -- Game states -- Finishing the game -- Making your games appealing. Sprite sheets -- Menus and settings -- Game state management -- Loading levels from files -- Pairing the penguins -- Finishing the game -- Animation and complexity. Creating the main game structure -- Animation -- Game physics -- Intelligent enemies -- Adding player interaction -- Finishing the game -- Appendix A. Exercises and challenges -- Appendix B. Syntax diagrams.