Amazon has just listed Mac Game Programming, a book on how to program Mac games, from author Mark Szymczyk. The book was scheduled to ship June 15th, but remains on back-order.

Mac Game Programming will come with a CD that includes CodeWarrior Lite, game sprockets, Macsbug, ResEdit, Graphic Converter, Sound App, Spotlight demo, Sprite World, Sprite Animation Toolkit, Crystal Space, Quesa, shareware games, and commercial game demos. Quite a list of programs so extensive that even a would be programmer could get started in a matter of minutes along with the book.

Here's a brief statement from the editor:

Are you a Mac programmer looking for a game development book? Then look no further because Mac Game Programming is for you! This book is a comprehensive guide to programming games on the Mac OS X and Mac OS 8/9 platforms. It teaches the fundamentals of graphics and animation and then moves on to advanced topics like artificial intelligence, multi-platform networking, and physics modeling. It covers basic topics such as graphics, scrolling backgrounds, character animation, dirty rectangle animation, playing sounds, and reading user input from joysticks.

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