Game Development Resources

I started programming with graphics and also a former games developer, so over the years I collected a number of resources. Recently I’ve seen a couple of people asking for some resource to get started.

Games Engines

• Game Programming Patterns
• Game Engine Architecture

Rendering

• Real-Time Rendering
• Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend

Procedural Modelling

• Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach
• The Nature of Code (also The Coding Train on YouTube)
• The Computational Beauty of Nature
• Generative Art: A practical guide using Processing

Games AI

• AI and Games and YouTube channel particularly the AI101 series
• The Total Beginner’s Guide to Game AI

Books

• Game AI Pro
• AIWisdom
• Artificial Intelligence and Games
• The AI Programmer’s Bookshelf

Conference

• Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

2D Games

• OpenBOR a 2D side scrolling engine for beat em’ ups, shooters
• Level Design Patterns in 2D Games
• The guide to implementing 2D platformers
• Shmup Dev

Retro Game Development

• Code the Classics
• Retro Game Development for the C64 and volume 2

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