ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the specific considerations that apply to graphics in game development, from the platforms on which games run to the game production process. The graphics methods selected for a given game have a profound effect, not only on the game engine code, but also on the art asset creation, and even sometimes on the gameplay, or core game mechanics. The graphics methods selected for a given game have a profound effect, only on the game engine code, but also on the art asset creation, and even sometimes on the gameplay, or core game mechanics. In some sense, multiplatform development is the hardest of all, since the multiplatform game developer has neither the assurance of a fixed platform or the convenience of a single high-level API. Games distributed through this service must use a virtual machine platform provided by Microsoft for security reasons.
