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How to Get Started with the PopCap Game Development Framework

If your ready to try your hand at making a video game for the PC and make your fortune in the Casual Games market, the PopCap Games Framework is a great place to start.

It's a proven, mature and well tested framework which you can base your new game on. Getting your development environment set up is the first step.

Things You'll Need

Visual Studio C++ Express, 2003 or 2005
PopCaps game development framework
DirectX SDK
An idea for a game

Instructions

- 1
  Download and extract PopCap's game development framework from http://developer.popcap.com
- 2
  
  Create a new empty Win32 project
- 3
  
  Add the PopCap Framework project to your solution.
  
  Do this by going to File -> Add... -> Existing Project...
  
  Navigate to your PopCap Framework directory and load the project under: source/sexyappframework/SexyAppBase.vcproj
- 4
  
  Add dependency libraries: winmm.lib and wsock32.lib
  
  - Right-click your project and select Properties.
  - Change the Configuration to "All Configurations"
  - Under Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies add:
  winmm.lib wsock32.lib
  - Don't close the dialog. You'll use it in the next step.
- 5
  
  Add the PopCap's SexyAppFramework source directory to your include path.
  
  - Under C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories add the path to your PopCap Framework source directory.
- 6
  
  Add the DirectX include and lib directories to your development environment. The framework needs to be able to find this.
  
  - Select Tools -> Options...
  - Go to Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories
  - Add the path to your DirectX include directory in the Include files section
  - Add the path to your DirectX lib directory in the
- 7
  
  And now some code. Add a Main.cpp file to your project. Include the SexyAppBase.h header and create a standard WinMain function. Everything should build. Your ready to start coding!

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