Game Development Online Magazines

• Gamasutra [WEEKLY]
• flipCode [DAILY]
• GameDev.net [SOMETIMES]
• loonygames [not since March]
• LGDC: The Linux Game Development Center [DAILY]
• GA-RPG - RPG Mythology with Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka - A [BIWEEKLY] column by the creators of Baldur's Gate

Game Development Bulletin Boards

• The comp.games.development.programming.misc newsgroup.
• The comp.games.development.programming.algorithms newsgroup.
• Lionhead's Programming Forum
• Genesis 3D forum
• Lupine Games' Message Board

Events

• Siggraph
• Armageddon - Xtreme Developers Conference(s)
• Game Developers Conference
• AAAI 2000 - Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment March 20-22nd, 2000

Game Portability and Libraries

• the DirectX eXperience - Porting your DOS games to Windows. Covers: message loop, the keyboard, timing
• OpenPTC - fast portable graphics
• PLIB Home Page - "Steve's portable game library page"
• GGI FAQ "General Graphics Interface" - for Linux and others
• CrystalClear Project Website - a complete game framework built around CrystalSpace
• The Photon Effect, Home of libCON C++ Game Programming Library
• GDK95 Home Page - a library on top of Direct Draw
• Erasmatazz - Home of the Erasmatron storytelling/interactive fiction engine.
• Prometheus Truecolor - Graphics library providing on the fly color depth conversion
• Nuke Software - Nuke Game Library: Win 32, Direct X, OpenGL, 3D Studio Max
• SDL: Simple DirectMedia Layer
• The Official SkySound Homepage - Portable streaming sound library with MPEG decoding (as well as WAV, etc.)
• Sean's Open Library Archives
• FMOD Homepage, Firelight Multimedia - Sound libraries
• Simple DirectMedia Layer
• OpenAL - Open source audio library
• Loki | Setup Graphic Installer
• FMOD Homepage, Firelight Multimedia - digital sound and music libraries for Windows
• Collake Software - compression libraries
• BeeCrypt - crypto library for several platforms
• The FLTK Home Page GUI library for Windows and Unix
• xiph.org: Ogg Vorbis - LGPL sound compression/decompression
• PLIB: a portable game library
• BeeCrypt - open source cryptography library
• Simple DirectMedia Layer; also see: SDL_gui - A Graphical User Interface library for SDL and SDL Library Documentation
• Sol Code - public domain, includes a compressed file library
• Fluid Studios Publications & Source Code - radiosity, collision detection, logging, memory management, font generation, ...
• icculus.org - many open source game projects
• Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-linux

DirectX

• DirectX Programming Faq
• the DirectX eXperience - Articles on DirectX
• Chilkat Software, Inc. - The Chilkat SDK is a C++ library for game and multimedia applications written for DirectX on Windows 95/98/NT
• DirectX Links
• Device-Independent Bitmaps and Palettes - (Windows) including DIBSections, and full-screen Windows programming without DirectX
• Microsoft DirectX page on Graphics - in case you have to program Windows
• An Incomplete Guide to Programming Direct3D Immediate Mode - For those not psychic enough to read the minds of Microsoft Developers and have to have actual documentation. Recommended reading.
• DirectX Mailing List Archives
• DirectX Developer's Page
• DirectPrimitive White Paper - confirms rumors that DirectX 5.0 will have a replacement for Direct3D without execute buffers. Better documentation? We can only hope.
• Hot Win95 Game Programming - the beginnings of a DirectX tutorial
• What is Microsoft's 3D graphics API strategy, really? - on Microsoft being unhelpful regarding OpenGL
• Odin's DirectX Game Programming Page - includes a C++ DirectX wrapper, and 2D map editor
• CDX home - C++ wrappers for accessing DirectX
• Direct3D Driver Bugs

Physics and Collision Detection

• Chris Hecker's Rigid Body Dynamics Information
• SOLID - Software Library for Interference Detection
• Work by others - Several links on Physics and Collision detection
• Multibody Dynamics Package
• Impulse-based Dynamic Simulation
• Collision Detection and Contact Determination
• Baraff Technical Reports and Reprints
• Physically Based Modelling - Particles, Rigid Body Dynamics, etc.
• Quick Collision Detection Library - Q_Collide, an optimization over I_Collide
• Collision Detection and Handling - Less ambitious than the above
• impulse-based simulation and collision detection by Brian Mirtich
• Collision Detection Pages
• The Dynamics of Runge--Kutta Methods
• Multidimensional Access Methods - Gaede, Gunther (ResearchIndex)
• Ipion Virtual Physics Engine - Welcome
• Deja.com: Re: Realtime physics - any luck?
• NeuroAnimator: Fast Neural Network Emulation and Control of Physics-Based Models
• Paper and Errata on OBBTrees - OBB = Oriented Bounding Box
• Notes on spatial partitioning - A good system for partitioning moving objects
• flipCode - Collision Detection Using Ellipsoids
• Hugg's Gaming Links - matrix, quaternion, dynamics, etc.
• Tim Gift's 07/21/2000 Plan - collision detection notes on Tribes 2
• Simulating Cloth for 3D Games
• Gamasutra: BSP Collision Detection As Used In MDK2 and NeverWinter Nights
• Advanced Character Physics used in IO Interactive’s game Hitman: Codename 47
• flipCode: Smallest Enclosing Spheres, by Nicolas Capens
• Russell Smith's Ph.D.: Intelligent Motion Control with an Artificial Cerebellum
• Dynamic Animation and Control Environment - physics-based character animation

Network Programming

• IPX Programming Starter's Guide
• Implementing Networking in a RTS
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• Alienware Technology (tm) - Multiplayer voice communication
• An Introductory Tutorial for Developing Multi-User Virtual Environments - describes "dead-reckoning" technique used in Descent and other multi-player games
• Stardust Winsock Developer Resource Center - Lots of Winsock information
• Networking - Longbow Digital Arts Discussion
• Security and Encryption Links
• Stanford's Secure Remote Password protocol - includes source
• Unreal Networking Architecture
• loonygames presents: Game Networking 101
• Speak Freely - also Speak Freely for Windows, and Speak Freely for Unix - on-the-fly sound compression for voice-over-internet
• DDVPC Homepage - government voice coding
• Hawk Network Library - open-source game-oriented networking library
• HawkVoice - open-source voice over network library
• Parsec Networking Architecture
• Gamasutra: GDC 2001: 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond
• flipCode: HTTP Client Class, by John Raptis
• A series of three articles on the O'Reilly Network about expiring (cached) data in networked applications: Introducing Automatic Data Expiration, The Hashbelt Data Structure, and Expiring Data with Hashbelts

Article Collections

• CGDC: Archive 1998
• GDC Online 1999
• RTS Game Programming - Main
• Faqsys - your new lifestyle - Introduction
• Xtreme Games LLC Web Site
• {Codepage 2.2} - Articles on patterns, AI, graphics, game programming, data structures, algorithms, and much more
• Game Programming
• The Game Programming Bookstore- Java, Visual Basic, C++, 3-D game engines, DirectX, etc.
• Viper's C/C++ page
• Eugene Pervago's Game Design Page
• Paul Hsieh's Homepage - includes graphics and pentium optimization sections.
• PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia
• Win95 Game Programmer's Encyclopedia - by Mark Feldman
• Strange Creations - Look at the Programmer's Virtual Library
• X2 Support Group Game Development FAQs - on a wide variety of subjects
• Programmer's Lair
• The Game Programming MegaSite - articles on DirectX, etc.
• Game Programming 99
• Game Programming Galaxy
• Galaxies World
• The Keep - many articles about game programming and C/C++
• ELIA KAZAN: On What Makes a Director
• Quake info
• Jake World: Anatomy of a Video Game, also on loonygames
• Jake World: Heretic II postmortem

General Algorithms and Techniques

• A Memory Allocator
• Patterns Home Page
• The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
• C/C++ Void - a few basic graphic & game algorithms
• Alpha-Beta Minimax Game Trees
• Paul Hsieh's Square Root page
• Paul Hsieh's Block Copy Analysis Page

Assembly and Optimizing

• The Art of Assembly Language Programming - a complete textbook
• Quantasm: x86 optimising tips and info - Quantasm makes assembly and optimization tools and a book on optimizing, click here for more info
• Intel's VTune - useful tool for optimizing
• Terse Symbolic Assembly Language - an assembly precompiler
• Pentium optimization - more accurate timining information than Intel.
• Processor Performance, Evaluation and Programming - techniques for improving memory bandwidth
• Agner Fog's Homepage - Articles on assembly, optimizing, profiling, and random numbers
• Intel at the Game Developer Conference '99 - Tools and Technologies
• Optimizing assembly code

Link lists

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• Moonbase Game programming resources
• Game Programming Resources - covers many topics
• Yahoo's Games Programming Page
• 3D Game Design - Game Developer Resources
• Floating Point's Game Developers Jumpsite
• Ziron Multimedia Game Programming Links & Resources
• The Nexus - game programming links

Starting a Game Company

• Computer Game Developers Association
• GameSpot's How To Start and Grow Your Own Game Development Company - Legal issues
• Ten Developer Commandments - Advice from g.o.d. on negotiating with publishers
• Negotiating a Great Advance and Royalty Deal
• Gamasutra - Features - "Squeezing Every Last Penny Out of International Markets"
• Gamasutra - Features - "Business and Legal Essentials for Building a Game Company"
• Ask Slashdot | Geek's Startup Business Experiences
• GameDev.net -- Lone Wolf Killers Part I: The Design Phase
• GameDev.net -- Lone Wolf Killers Part II: The Development Phase
• Gamasutra - Public Relations for Game Developers; [03.28.00]
• Gamasutra - Ask Mary-Margaret: Staying in the Black [05.22.00]
• Why you shouldn't make your own MMORPG
• Gamasutra: Ten Independent Development Myths Debunked
• Gamasutra: Killing Feature Creep Without Ever Saying No
• SlashDot: Death March Book Review
• Ten Easy Ways to Screw Up Your Game Company and Ten More Easy Ways to Screw Up Your Game Company, both at GIGnews.com
• The Secret to Consistently Delivering Hit Titles (real video) from GDC 1999 (Production Keynote)
• The Making of Wave 49
• GameDev.net: Game Development Common Sense
• Gamasutra: Automating the Build Process
• flipCode: Startup Game Companies Discussion
• Gamasutra: Avoiding Disaster and Positioning for Success: Business and Legal Essentials for Building Your Game Development Company
• Effective Project Management - from GDC 2001, as a backup see GDC proceedings archives
• Gamasutra: Budgeting and Scheduling Your Game
• Gamasutra: The Birth of a New Game Studio: Part One: Humble Beginnings and Part Two: Goin' Places, Meetin' People
• GIGNews.com: Negotiating Contracts That Protect Your Title and Team
• Diary of a Start-Up
• Dexterity Software articles - including several for independent game developers
• Association of Shareware Professionals: Portable Application Description (PAD)
• flipCode: Strayfire: Writing A "Simple" Game
• Cognitoy - MindRover: Weekly progress updates - extends back to the initial formation of the company
• Ambrosia Software:Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy - about protecting shareware against cracks
• Why Do People Register Shareware - does crippling work?

Jobs

• The comp.games.development.industry newsgroup.
• Current Openings - Studio Search
• Jobs For Programmers
• Deja News - Power Search Results
• Computer Jobs and Employment in the Multimedia computer game industry. Your interactive Multimedia and Game Industry Employment Search Specialist! Studio Search,...
• TotallyGames Jobs
• JobPen -- GamePen Resource
• UGO Central - central hub of the UGO Network
• 3DSite
• 3D-ARK: Job Opportunities Bulletin Board
• Jobs in the Computer Game Industry: Virtual Search - Has the GIG newsletter
• Advice to Job Applicants - on FlipCode
• Getting a Job - on GameDev.net
• HeadShed Home Page
• Getting A Job In The Game Development Industry
• Slashdot: How Does One Become a Game Designer?
• You've Been Given a Job Offer! (Let's Try to Avoid Getting Screwed)