Handmade Hero Notes

1. Set up Visual Studio.
2. Configure Command Prompt.
3. Set up a Text Editor (4coder/vscode).
4. Create the First Code File (win32_handmade.cpp).
5. build.bat philosophy.
6. Intro to debugging in Visual Studio and RemedyBG.

1. Create and Register the WindowClass.
2. Create Main Windows Callback, Start Processing Basic Messages.
3. Create a Window.
4. Start the Message Loop with GetMessageA.

1. Create a Bitmap using CreateDIBSection.
2. Output the Bitmap to the Window using StretchDIBits.

1. Custom Bitmap Memory Allocation.
2. Render a Gradient to the Bitmap.
3. Animate the Bitmap on Each Frame.
4. RGB Color Packing in Windows.

1. Pack the Bitmap-related Globals Into a Struct
2. The Stack
3. Full Program Step-through

1. XInput
2. Direct Library Loading
3. Process Keyboard Messages

1. Load Direct Sound
2. Initialize the Buffers
3. Deep Dive: COM, Vtables, Disassembly

1. Write to a Circular Buffer
2. Square Wave
3. Play Sound through DirectSound

1. Generate a Sine Wave
2. Debug Sample Writing
3. Link Sound Pitch to User Input

1. Time the frame using QueryPerformanceCounter and RDTSC
2. String formatting tools in the C Standard Library
3. Intro to Dimensional Analysis

1. About Code Architecture
2. Platform Usage Philosophies
3. Start Implementing Game as Service System Style

1. Intro to our API Design Approach
2. Start Generating Sounds on the Game Layer
3. Make Use of Sound Generation in the Platform Layer

1. Think of a Possible Input System Usage
2. Make a First Pass on the Input System

1. Intro to Memory Management
2. Design and Implementation of Our Approach
3. Assertions

1. About File I/O in Games
2. Platform Implementation of the Debug I/O
3. Safe Truncation

1. Enable Compiler Warnings
2. Set Other Compiler Switches
3. Try a 32-bit Build

1. Move Keyboard Input to WinMain
2. Finish Gamepad Stick Code
3. Improve Keyboard Input Processing

1. Define frame rate problem
2. Implement first pass solution
3. Some Cleanup and Refactoring

1. Visualize the DirectSound Cursors
2. Deep-dive Debugging: Audio Skipping
3. Increase Audio Latency

1. Deep Dive into Audio Latency Issue
2. Implement Two Audio Paths
3. Introduce GameGetSoundSamples
4. More Debug Work

1. Separate Game From Platform
2. Build Game DLL
3. Reload Game DLL at Runtime

1. Variable PDB Name
2. Re-enable Debugger Support
3. Remove Delay Between Reloads

1. Add a Test Player
2. Implement Live Loop
3. Showcase Live Loop Editing

1. Various Code Improvements
2. String Building Routines

1. Capture Mouse Input
2. Improve Replay Handling
3. Clean Up Platform Debug Code

1. About Software Architecture
2. Game Architecture for Handmade Hero

1. Explore and Lock architecture approach
2. Game Design for Handmade Hero
3. Test Code Cleanup
4. DrawRectangle Function

1. Floating-point Color
2. Basic Tile Map
3. Getting a Player on the Screen
4. Aside: A bit of Color Theory

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