Witold Wysota - Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner’s Guide

Witold Wysota is a software architect and developer living in Poland. He started his adventure with Qt in 2004 when he joined QtForum.org and started answering questions about programming with Qt. Shortly afterwards, he became part of the moderator group of the forum. In 2006, together with the moderator team, he established QtCentre.org, which quickly became the largest community-driven support site devoted to Qt. For a number of years, he conducted commercial, academic, and public trainings and workshops and has been giving lectures on Qt, Qt Quick, and related technologies. He is a certified Qt developer and was a member of Qt Education Advisory Board with Nokia, where he helped prepare materials in order to use Qt in educational activities.

Witold was also a technical reviewer for Foundations of Qt Development , Johan Thelin , Apress Publishing , a book about Qt 4, and an author of a couple of articles on programming with Qt.

In real life, he is a passionate adept of Seven Star Praying Mantis, a traditional style of Chinese martial arts.

I would like to thank all the people who have worked on Qt's development over the years for creating such a great programming framework, which was the main force that helped me to shape my programming career.

I would also like to thank Lorenz for helping me with the book as well as the team at Packt Publishing for having a magnitude of patience for me during the process of the creation of this book.

Lorenz Haas is a passionate programmer who started his Qt career with Qt 3. Thrilled by Qt's great community, especially the one at QtCentre.org, he immersed himself in this framework, became one of the first certified Qt developers and specialists, and turned his love for Qt into his profession.

Lorenz is now working at a medium-sized IT company based in Erlangen, Germany, as a lead software architect. He mainly develops machine controls and their user interfaces as well as general solutions for the industry sector. Additionally, he runs his own small consultancy and programming business called Histomatics (http://www.histomatics.de).

A few years ago, he started contributing to Qt Creator. He added a couple of refactoring options that you probably rely on a regular basis if you use Qt Creator. He is also the author of the Beautifier plugin.

I would like to thank Witold who guided me through my first steps into the Qt world back in the days and who still assists me with any problems that arise. I am also very grateful to him for taking me on board for this book writing project. He's an excellent teacher and tutor!

Secondly, I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing, who helped and guided us through the entire process of writing this book.

Simone Angeloni is a software developer and consultant with over a decade of experience in C++ and scripting languages. He is a passionate gamer, but an even more passionate modder and game designer.

He is currently working for Crytek GmbH and developing the UI of the free-to-play, award-winning video game Warface. Before this, he was realizing configuration systems for railway signaling and creating standalone applications with Qt. Later, he worked with universities and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics to realize fast data acquisition for particle accelerators.

Recently, he founded Clockwise Interactive, a game company that is currently working on the production of its first title.

Rahul De is a 23-year-old systems and server-side engineer from Kolkata, India. He recently graduated from the Vellore Institute of Technology with a bachelor of technology degree in computer science and now works with ThoughtWorks. Being a tech and open source enthusiast and a proper "geeks geek", Rahul took up programming at a very young age and quickly matured from developing small-time native applications for desktops to maintaining servers, writing compilers, building IDEs, and enhancing Qt. His latest pet projects involve Medusaa JIT compiler for Python using Qt, which aims to provide up to a 1500 percent boost for Python projects.

Being an avid gamer, he has already dabbled quite a bit with various engines such as Unreal and Cry. He likes to play and develop games in his spare time.

Pooya Eimandar was born on 7th January 1986. He graduated in computer science and has a hardware engineering degree from Shomal University. He is also the author of DirectX 11.1 Game Programming , Packt Publishing .

He began his career working on various 3D simulation applications. In 2010, he founded BaziPardaz Game Studio, and since then, he has been leading an open source game engine (https://persianengine.codeplex.com/) at Bazipardaz.

He is currently working on a playout and CG editor tool for Alalam News Network. You can find more information about him at http://PooyaEimandar.com/.

Shaveen Kumar is a computer scientist and engineer. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 with a master's degree in entertainment technology and is working at Google. He works there as a graphics engineer and technical artist. His main interests are in GPU programming, parallel computing, game engine development, robotics, and computer vision.

More information about his work can be found at http://www.shaveenk.com.

M. Cihan zer is a game developer and researcher in computer graphics. He started his career in game development and worked for several mobile and game companies.

He got his bachelor's degree from Ankara University, Turkey, and he is currently an MS student at Universit de Montral, Canada. Cihan's work focuses on realistic rendering and interactive techniques.