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WRITE THE GAMES LINUX PEOPLE PLAY 
New book teaches how to program Linux games with SDL, Open AL, and other APIs

San Francisco, CA--No Starch Press and Loki Software today announced the
launch of the complete and authoritative guide to developing games for Linux.
PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES: BUILDING MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS WITH SDL,
OPENAL(TM), AND OTHER APIs (August 2001, 1-886411-49-2, $39.95, paperback,
416 pp., http://www.nostarch.com/?plg) guides readers through all the
important Linux development tools and gaming APIs, with a special focus on
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). Written by the gaming masters at Loki
Software, this book is the ultimate resource for Linux game developers.
 
PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES discusses important multimedia toolkits while
teaching the basics of Linux game programming. It includes detailed coverage
of Linux graphics and audio interfaces as well as lots of real-world
examples. Readers learn how to:

* Use the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library to build a powerful
scrolling game engine (complete with environmental audio and an embedded
scripting system) 
* Play sound effects and music with OSS, ALSA, ESD, and OpenAL
* Manage compressed audio streams with Ogg Vorbis
* Build a multiplayer game with TCP/IP sockets
* Write games for the Linux framebuffer console
* Construct professional-quality installation scripts for their games
* Distribute their game to the Linux community

Available in bookstores, from Loki Software
(http://www.lokigames.com/orders), or from No Starch Press (1-800-420-7240,
http://www.nostarch.com), PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES is the ultimate resource
for writing and developing Linux games.
 
ABOUT LOKI SOFTWARE
Loki Software, Inc. (http://www.lokigames.com) ports best-selling PC games to
Linux.  Loki supports several Open Source development projects, including
OpenAL(tm), a cross-platform environmental audio library, and SMPEG, a
general purpose MPEG video/audio player for Linux.  John R. Hall is a
computer science student at Georgia Institute of Technology and a contractor
with Loki Software.

ABOUT LINUX JOURNAL PRESS
Linux Journal Press publishes computer books on cutting-edge Open Source
topics that help to advance the acceptance and usability of Open Source
software. An imprint of No Starch Press (http://www.nostarch.com), Linux
Journal Press titles are developed in partnership with Linux Journal
(http://www.ssc.com and http://www.linuxjournal.com).