Introduction

Welcome to the "Dr. Dobb's Challenge" Windows Mobile game tutorial!  This tutorial is an overview of how video games can be developed using Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 and DirectX, plus the Windows Mobile 5 SDK.  It is assumed that you are already familiar with general C++ programming.

Full C++ source code for the "Dr. Dobb's Challenge" game is available, complete with a large number of in-line comments to aid your understanding.  Below, you will be provided with an overview of the "game engine" source code and the "game logic" source code.  After the source code is explained, instructions for modding the game's source code will be given.