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Game Developer Magazine     www.gdmag.com A monthly publication that delivers technical, how-to articles

Amit's Game Programming Information  www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html Descriptions of algorithms for artificial intelligence, path finding, game design, objects, hexagonal tiles, threads, and text games.

C# Game Dev  einfall.blogspot.com A set of computer RPG programming tutorials using C# and DirectX. Regular articles on the creation of roleplaying games. Topics including Lua scripting, NPCs, maps.

A Critical Look at Programming Languages  archive.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/devweek_b.shtm An article by Tim Sweeney on the evolution and future of programming languages as it relates to game development.

Cylinder Based Collision Detection  spiritking.tripod.com/cdtut.htm A game programming tutorial on Cylinder based collision detection and response.

Daneu, Ales  www.angelfire.com/games4/ales AD Snooker and Briskola games with C++ sources.

3Ddrome  www.3ddrome.com News, tutorials, sample code, links related to 3D graphics and game development.

DevMaster.net  www.devmaster.net A game development site that provides articles, 3D engines database, a wiki, daily news updates, and a discussion forum.

East Coast Games  www.eastcoastgames.com Dedicated to training new programmers and to making great games, tutorials on C/C++, Java and DirectX, several games written for Windows (Freeware).

Exaflop  www.exaflop.org A programmers' resource with resources related to graphics and games programming.

flipCode  www.flipcode.com Articles, coding techniques, and interviews relating to Game programming.

Gamasutra  www.gamasutra.com The Art and Science of making Games.

Game Algorithms  www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/gamealgorithms.html Algorithms, source code and references.

The Game Programming Wiki  gpwiki.org Game programming tutorials and source code.

Game Tutorials  www.gametutorials.com Over one hundred tutorials in C/C++ for the beginning programmer.

GameDev.net  www.gamedev.net Featuring a huge reference library and weekly interviews of professionals inside the industry. Participate in a public game development project.

Gamedev.org  www.gamedev.org Game development discussion forum.

GameProgrammer.com  www.gameprogrammer.com Game and graphics programming articles of interest to game programmers with all levels of experience.

GameProgrammer.org  gameprogrammer.org Contains tutorials about game development featuring OpenGL, Direct3D and Win32 SDK programming.

Games Creation Resources  www.ambrosine.com/resource.html Game creation programs for non-programmers.

Games++ Megasite  www.gamespp.com Game programming, online games, cheats, tutorials, references, Direct X, C/C++, and Java.

Games Research  www.red3d.com/siggraph/2000/course39 Materials from, and links to resources related to, the Siggraph 2000 course "Games Research: the Science of Interactive Entertainment"

GarageGames.com  www.garagegames.com An online game development community and resource center, keeping independent and professional developers connected to their peers, the industry and cutting edge information, tools and code.

Gepard Studio  gepardstudio.4ezi.com Downloads for game programming, along with some Java, Linux, DOS and Windows games.

GGD - Global Game Developer  www.geocities.com/gcgameruk Provides tools and knowledge needed to create and distribute games. Including tutorials, tips, downloads and books.

How to Start a Gameproject/Gamedevelop Company  hem.bredband.net/leiber/gamedev Article from a Swedish programmer. Also related links.

Impacto  scorpius.spaceports.com/~esanto A tool to make games and multimedia applications.

Irt.org  www.irt.org/games Design challenges, tutorials, and articles on coding design.

Mappy for PC (DOS and Win95)  www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7336/robmpy.htm A utility for creating flexible 'maps' for tile based 2D games (scrolling shoot-em-ups, or 8-way scrolling adventures, whatever).

Nuclex  www.nuclex.org A .NET game development community site with technical articles, tutorials and code snippets, focusing on game creation with the Microsoft XNA framework.

Paul Hsieh  www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/tech.shtml Source code, tips, and tricks.

PC Game Programming Explorer  www.droberts.com/pcgpex/pcgpex.htm Book by Dave Roberts that takes readers inside the world of PC game programming and reveals the essential techniques to make game programming easy and fun.

The Playground Project  www.ioe.ac.uk/playground/frame_n.htm Building computer environments for 4-8 year-olds to play, design, and create games. A playground is a place to play with rules not just by them.

Quake Developers Pages  www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake Information and resources for quake developers

Reprints of Works by Diana Gruber  www.fastgraph.com/diana.html Articles and book chapters by Diana Gruber on the subject of game design and programming.

Rise Game Development Home Page  www.angelfire.com/games2/Rise Tutorials on games and QBasic along with developer tools downloads.

RPG game programming page  www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hub/5282/eng Page related to RPG programming. Has a freeware game (not finished, but in development) w/ all its sources

Simple Game Engine  www.geocities.com/djterrier/sgeindex.html Information, screenshots and downloads for Simple Game Engine (freeware) enabling to games using a definition language.

SoftLight Development  thunder.prohosting.com/~sssmoker Lots of programs and source code, development tools, Direct X examples, and killer links. With a Windows focus.

Toymaker  www.toymaker.info Aimed mainly at the new games programmer. It contains notes and answers to common questions with examples in C++ and DirectX. Resources. T2, a free terrain texture generation tool.

Web Game Builder  www.webgamebuilder.com Free resource for anyone wishing to write online games. Offering tutorials, forums and linking to member games.

XDev.ru  www.xdev.ru/dxgp/rgd_news_e.asp Games development articles and tutorials. Game industry news.

Xtreme Games  www.xgamestation.com Free tools and source code and an offer to sign up new developers for joint ventures for a general pooling of resources.

Zingtech Computer Solutions  zingtech.com/features/gamedev Development site with tutorials, an introduction to DirectX and a game idea center. Also Allegro game programming library sections. Books. Links.

zstar  zstar.sourceforge.net An extensible, distributed system for game development, consisting of an abstract game client, and a game server to which players connect to play games against other players or alone.