Reading List

This page has a list of links that I’ve been meaning to read and haven’t yet or stuff I just want to remember exists. I’m making it public because maybe other people will find these useful too.

GENERAL

• Tommy Refenes on How to start Game Programming
• How To Build a Game In A Week From Scratch With No Budget
• Old article on How to start making games (Good progression of games to make while learning)
• Amit’s Game Programming Information (The notes on AI are well regarded and lots of further reading)
• Lets build a browser engine

ARCHITECTURE

• Game Programming Patterns
• Implementing a Scripting Engine
• Non-Tile based game editor tutorial (Mostly an ad for this guy’s game engine, but need to read more)
• Insomniac’s Client/Server Tool Architecture
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications High Priority
• Semantic Versioning
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide
• Lets build a compiler

BUSINESS

• Business Basics for Engineers
• Top F2P Monetization Tricks NEVER DO THESE THINGS

MARKETING

• presskit()
• distribute()
• Indie Festival Calendar
• GDC Vault: Perfecting your Pitch

DESIGN

• Game Design Concepts High Priority
• Analyzing the problem of difficulty raised by Chris Crawford’s dragon speech
• The Anatomy of Games
• Rational Design: The Core of Rayman Origins

GRAPHICS

• Scratch-a-Pixel
• Sol’s Graphics Tutorials
• David Rousset’s Software Renderer Tutorial
• Ben Cloward Tutorial on Normal Maps
• Illinois Uni Resource on Anti-Aliased Line Drawing
• Overview of Bresenham line drawing algorithms (really good)
• Neon Helium Tutorials

NETWORKING

• Microsoft Matchmaking Reserch
• Halo 2 Matchmaking
• Guild Wars 2 Matchmaking

GAMEPLAY

• Gaffer on Games: Physics
• Tuning Canabalt

LOCALIZATION

• Using UTF-8 for string representation

TOOLS

• Graphana (Could be used for metrics in automated testing)
• BMFont – Bitmap Font Generator
• Cloc – Count Lines of Code
• Intel Architecture Code Analyzer