2Dgame.nl
Ten step tutorial for programming a 2-dimensional parrallax-scroller with realistic physics, sound, and music.
http://www.2dgame-tutorial.com/2DNow
A forum for people interested in independent 2D game development.
http://2dnow.zenzer.net/
3rdlife.net
A game community driven game programming and modding website. Includes tutorials and articles, downloads.
http://www.3rdlife.net/
A Critical Look at Programming Languages
An article by Tim Sweeney on the evolution and future of programming languages as it relates to game development.
http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/devweek_b.shtm
Action Arcade Adventure Set
The entire book by Diana Gruber describing how to make a side scrolling game.
http://www.makegames.com/sidescroller/
AI Wisdom
Attempts to catalogue every game AI article ever written in game development books, magazines, and conference proceedings. All articles can be searched by topic, genre, resource, or date. It's a very focused site and a great place to find out wha
http://www.aiwisdom.com/
Amit's Game Programming Information
Descriptions of algorithms for artificial intelligence, path finding, game design, objects, hexagonal tiles, threads, and text games.
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html
Blitz Basic
A specialized version of BASIC designed specifically for game development. Includes features like custom types and functions. Code is compiled before execution to speed things up.
http://www.blitzbasic.com/
BlueParrots
C, C++, Assembly source code examples for games, graphics, and sound.
http://blueparrots.com/
CFXweb - Demo and Game Development
Daily news, articles, art gallery, downloads, games, demos, demo scene news, forums, online irc clients, and source code.
http://www.cfxweb.net/
Cylinder Based Collision Detection
A game programming tutorial on Cylinder based collision detection and response.
http://spiritking.tripod.com/cdtut.htm
Daneu, Ales
AD Snooker and Briskola games with C++ sources.
http://www.angelfire.com/games4/ales/
DevMaster.net
A game and graphics development site that provides resources, 3D engines database, articles, daily news updates, and a discussion forum.
http://www.devmaster.net/
DIV Design Studio
Community site for programming with DIV.
http://www.div-arena.com/
DXC Companion
Tutorials and resources for the DX-Creator.
http://freespace.virgin.net/udxc.ss/
East Coast Games
training new programmers and to making great games, tutorials on C/C++, Java and DirectX, several games written for Windows (freeware).
http://www.EastCoastGames.com/
Exaflop
A programmers' resource with extensive resources related to graphics and games programming.
http://www.exaflop.org/
flipCode
Find articles, coding techniques, news, and interviews relating to Game programming. A fair number of specific tutorials as well.
http://www.flipcode.com/
Fy Software
Game developement, tutorials and sources. C++/OpenGL and Win32.
http://www.fysoftware.com/
Gamasutra
The Art and Science of making Games.
http://www.gamasutra.com/
Game Algorithms
Algorithms, source code and references.
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/gamealgorithms.html
Game Developer Magazine
A monthly publication that delivers technical, how-to articles
http://www.gdmag.com/
Game Development Search Engine, The
Web portal and search engine dedicated to game development. Links to articles, tutorials and source code that cover all aspects of game development. Read and post to game development newsgroups.
http://www.gdse.com/servlet/gdse.main
Game LS
The game development resource community driven database of sites, articles, multimedia. Forums.
http://www.gamels.net
Game Tutorials
Over one hundred tutorials in C/C++ for the beginning programmer.
http://www.GameTutorials.com/
GameDev.net
Featuring a huge reference library and weekly interviews of professionals inside the industry. Participate in a public game development project.
http://www.gamedev.net/
Gamedev.org
Game development discussion forum.
http://www.gamedev.org/yabbse/
GameDeveloper.net
Good site with many tutorials. Subjects include 2D/3D, physics, and AI. Covers OpenGL, DirectX, game design, and graphic art.
http://www.gamedeveloper.net/
GameFurnace
Open source games, tutorials, game cheats and reviews.
http://www.gamefurnace.com/
GameProgrammer.com
Game and graphics programming articles of interest to game programmers with all levels of experience.
http://www.gameprogrammer.com/
GameProgrammer.org
Game programming news, tutorials, codes. Downloads.
http://www.roze.biz/gameprogrammer/
GameProgrammer.org
Game programming tutorials, codes, news, forums, links and related downloads. Containing Direct3D and Win32 SDK Tutorials.
http://www.gameprogrammer.org
Games Creation Resources
Game creation programs for non-programmers.
http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html
Games Research
Materials from, and links to resources related to, the Siggraph 2000 course "Games Research: the Science of Interactive Entertainment"
http://www.red3d.com/siggraph/2000/course39/
Games++ Megasite
Game programming, online games, cheats, tutorials, references, Direct X, C/C++, and Java.
http://www.gamespp.com/
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.
http://www.garagegames.com/
Gepard Studio
Downloads for game programming, along with some Java, Linux, DOS and Windows games.
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/solaris/46/
GGD - Global Game Developer
Provides tools and knowledge needed to create and distribute games. Including tutorials, tips, downloads and books.
http://www.geocities.com/gcgameruk/
How to Start a Gameproject/Gamedevelop Company
Article from a swedish programmer. Also related links.
http://hem.bredband.net/leiber/gamedev/
Impacto
A tool to make games and multimedia applications.
http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~esanto/
Imperial Snowman Soft
Game programming resources for VB, Java, JavaScript, Python and Perl. Tutorials, source codes, forum, sound files, pictures, programming tools and links.
http://home.pages.at/issoft/
InTheory
A forum that encourages descussion about Game Theory, ideas and design. Covers all topics ranging from story to level design to 3d programming.
http://www.intheoryforum.com/
Irt.org
Design challenges, tutorials, and articles on coding design.
http://www.irt.org/games/
Knowledge Hound
Tutorials, tips, and how-to guides for game programmers of all types.
http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/gameprog.htm
Mappy for PC (DOS and Win95)
A utility for creating flexible 'maps' for tile based 2D games (scrolling shoot-em-ups, or 8-way scrolling adventures, whatever).
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7336/robmpy.htm
NeHe Productions
OpenGL programming. Many tutorials, sample programs/games, and source code. A CD is available for order containing all of the site.
http://nehe.gamedev.net/
Paul Hsieh
Source code, tips, and tricks.
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/tech.shtml
PC Game Programming Explorer
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.
http://www.droberts.com/pcgpex/pcgpex.htm
Pixelate
An online gameprogramming magazine.
http://www.pixelate.co.za/
Quake Developers Pages
Information and resources for quake developers
http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/
Ray Game Designer
Freeware 3D construction kit for Windows based on a RayCaster.
http://eicart.free.fr/rgd/
Reprints of Works by Diana Gruber
Articles and book chapters by Diana Gruber on the subject of game design and programming.
http://www.fastgraph.com/diana.html
Repune
Multiplayer snake game with C sources. [Open source, LGPL]
http://repune.sourceforge.net/
Rise Game Development Home Page
Tutorials on games and QBasic along with developer tools downloads.
http://www.angelfire.com/games2/Rise/
RPG game programming page
Page related to RPG programming. Has a freeware game (not finished, but in development) w/ all its sources
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hub/5282/eng/
Simple Game Engine
Information, screenshots and downloads for Simple Game Engine (freeware) that enables you to write your own games using a definition language.
http://www.geocities.com/djterrier/SGEmain.htm
SoftLight Development
Lots of programs and source code, development tools, Direct X examples, and killer links. With a Windows focus.
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~sssmoker/
The Game Programming Wiki
Game programming tutorials and source code.
http://gpwiki.org/
The Playground Project
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.
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/playground/frame_n.htm
Toymaker
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.
http://www.toymaker.info
Web Game Builder
Free resource for anyone wishing to write online games. Offering tutorials, forums and linking to member games.
http://www.webgamebuilder.com/
XDev.ru
Games development articles and tutorials. Game industry news.
http://www.xdev.ru/dxgp/rgd_news_e.asp
Xtreme Games
Free tools and source code and an offer to sign up new developers for joint ventures for a general pooling of resources.
http://www.xgames3d.com/
Zingtech Computer Solutions
Development site with tutorials, an introduction to DirectX and a game idea center. Also Allegro game programming library sections. Books. Links.
http://zingtech.com/features/gamedev/
Ziron Multimedia
Links to articles, source code, and tutorials.
http://ziron.com/links/
zstar
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.
http://zstar.sourceforge.net/
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