Game Programming Links

The purpose of this thread is to compile a large amount of game related website links in one place. Its a common question to hear when it comes to needing links to tutorials and such.

If you have a link to submit to the thread, please do. Post the link with a quick description(not required) and no more. The point is a clean, conversation free thread.

Before posting in this thread take the time to read through and make sure that your link has not been posted already. Please only link your personal sites here if they are game programming oriented and needed. This thread is not for advertisement.

To report an error, such as a broken link, please PM me with the problem and i will ensure it is fixed quickly.

Any posts that stray off the given topic, or that violate any board rules, will be promptly removed, and may result in the closing of this thread. That said, lets do our best to contribute!

-Example Codes-

Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/


-OpenGL based sites-

Game Dev:
http://www.gamedev.net

FlipCode:
http://www.flipcode.com

Gamasutra:
http://www.gamasutra.com

NeHe Productions:
http://nehe.gamedev.net

OpenGL.org:
http://www.opengl.org

Romka Graphics:
http://romka.demonews.com

-DirectX based sites-

DirectX Dev Center:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx

DirectX Mailing List:
http://discuss.microsoft.com/archives/directxdev.html

Real-Time Rendering:
http://www.realtimerendering.com

NVIDIA Developer Page:
http://www.nvidia.com/developer.nsf

Intel Developer Page:
http://cedar.intel.com/cgi-bin/ids.dll/main.jsp

DirectX:
http://www.sunlightd.com/Windows/DirectX/

OpenGL
Forums:
http://www.openglforums.com/
http://www.gamedev.net/community/for...sp?forum_id=25
Resources:
http://www.nullterminator.net/opengl32.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...start_9uw5.asp
http://tc1.chemie.uni-bielefeld.de/d.../ImpGuide.html
Red Book: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/...1.0/index.html
Blue Book: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/...ook/index.html
Code Samples:
http://www.planet-source-code.com
http://users.hfx.eastlink.ca/~ebrooks/opengl.html
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/lis...tegoryid=31#56
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l/msdn_gl1.asp
http://www.tmt.com/samples.htm

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Prog...e_Development/

http://www.home.no/apron/english/apron.htm?tut_gl

Here goes:
SDL:
www.libsdl.org



P.S.:I will add more links later.

Allegro

Allegro
Allegro CC
Allegro WebRing
Pixelate

AllegroGL

AllegroGL
Pixelate


SDL

SDL

ClanLib

ClanLib
ClanLib Project
ClanLib Tutorials

OpenML: just read...

OpenML

Graphics Theory papers, mpegs, images, at Stanford Computer Graphics Labratory:

SCGL

Game Programming Info, Standford Student:

Amit

Journal of Graphics Tools:

JGT

3D-Labs OpenGL Man Pages:

OpenGL Man-Pages

Graphics in DOS using C:

Brackeen

DJGPP Graphics in Dos using C:

Game Programming with DJGPP

Nate Robins: OpenGL Tutorials.

Nate

Matrices: Covers Graphics.

Matrices

Random Number Generator: About the best and fastest free RNG there is.

Mersenne Twister

i'll probably add some more later...

I'm just posting to thank those who have so far contributed to this thread, and in the hope that it may draw new attention to the thread. It has become a good reference to guide game programming newbies too, and its because of those who have helped to build it. Thank you. Please do not reply to this post unless it conforms to previous stated thread rules.

In response to many emails on this topic:

Half-Life Programming

3 more for Allegro:

http://www.grandgent.com/allegro/faq/

http://www.grandgent.com/gfoot/vivace/vivace.html - really good..

http://www.loomsoft.net/resources/al...ltut_index.htm

hmmmm....Did you guys forget GameTutorials? Great Site for OpenGL, WinAPI and console progamming. :)

Can't believe no one posted these yet:

AGDN - allegro examples and tutorials
http://agdn.netfirms.com/main/

Forums + tutorials (general C++)
http://www.programmersheaven.com/

Lot's of source code/examples
http://www.1cplusplusstreet.com/

one quick one i just found:

3D models and such:

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/meshes.asp

OpenGL:
www.lighthouse3d.com
DirectX:
www.drunkenhyena.com
Linux Programming:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/

I can't believe that this isn't here

DirectX - NeXe
http://nexe.gamedev.net/ It's getting a bit outdated now and doesn't have as much content as NeHe, but it could help someone get started

Edit: There was a request for some more DirectX links here, so I figured I'd get it started. I haven't read these yet, and if I find that some of them aren't any good, I'll delete them.

Direct 3D
http://www.two-kings.de/tutorials/d3d.html (This looks really nice)
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/ind...0in%20direct3d (very basic, more of a reference)

DirectX
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=24

just came across this one. Tons of links to many game/graphics tuts.

http://www.salleurl.edu/~manuellv/Pu...nglish.cg.html

CDX - Wrapper classes for DirectX (Free)

I think they're pretty cool and I'm currently using it to write a "shmup" (shoot 'em up).

They've basically wrapped DirectX and added a few classes to support 2D and 3D games programming, although I haven't checked out the 3D classes yet.

I find it quite useful and easy to use and would recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to get bogged down by the DirectX COM interfaces.

My site:
http://www.bludstaynesoftware.tk

It's got a few basic C++ tutorials and one on tile engines. It's a work in progress, so don't expect too much out of it.

www.gamespp.com

My Site
I am developing a Basic language for game development that is open GL based and I have tutorials once I finish transfering the content over to my new portal i made.:D

needs proper language support installed but a decent site it looks

http://www.openglsource.com/

Well thanks, but i just redid the whole site to look better. I will take your advice and add the language support. I am going to probably add the content to the site today. I now use snartor's ezportal instead of mine, but it is nicer. lol :D

i meant the link i posted, but your sites nice too

Good tutorial for learning game programming. Finally being able to compile Lamothe's Directx8.1 stuff with bloodshed
http://www.imagethis.org/

Not really a tutorial but a useful link that you can download all kinds of graphics libaries and other goodies
http://devpaks.org/

Here's a cool DOS game tutorial/code page:
http://www.codersource.net/c++_game_...g_catcher.html

I would've loved that tutorial if...if I had Windows lol.

Allegro:
http://www.cppgameprogramming.com

This site just came out this week. Has a few lessons right now, and more are on the way. Also has source code for games, more to be added as well.

My combined, and origanized, list of sites I've ran by to do with game programming (some from this topic). Non are dead links at the moment of me posting this.

Graphics Libraries:
_OpenGL:
|-- OpenGL (official) - http://www.opengl.org/
|-- NeHe Productions - http://nehe.gamedev.net/ //great start to OGL 3D programming
|-- Red Book I - http://www.opengl.org/documentation/...1.0/index.html //eBook
|-- Megabyte Softworks - http://www.megasoft.wz.cz/main.php
|-- Cone3D - http://cone3d.gamedev.net/cgi-bin/in...s/ogladv/index
|-- Null Terminator - http://www.nullterminator.net/opengl32.html //opengl/c++/win32 tutorial
|-- Delphi3D - http://www.delphi3d.net/listfiles.php?category=2 //opengl/delphi demos
|-- Lighthouse 3D - http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/ //tutorials
|-- OpenGL Source - http://www.openglsource.com/ //CHINESE
|
|__Libraries for OpenGL: //audio, mouse, keyboard, etc.
|--- SDL - http://www.libsdl.org/index.php
|---- PLIB - http://plib.sourceforge.net/index.html //combination of libraries/toolkits
|
|__Addons for OpenGL: //windows, buttons, scroll bars, checkboxes, etc.
|--- Toolkit: FreeGLUT - http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/ //more updated than GLUT
|--- Toolkit: GLUT - http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html
|-------- Wrapper: GLOW - http://glow.sourceforge.net/ //wrapper for GLUT (best for gaming IMHO)
|-------- Library: GLUI - http://glui.sourceforge.net/ //library for GLUT
|--- Framework: Qt - http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/
|--- Toolkit: FLTK - http://www.fltk.org/
|--- Toolkit: GTK+ - http://gtk.org/
|-------- Extension: GtkGLExt - http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/ //extension to GTK
|--- Toolkit: GLAM - http://glam.sourceforge.net/
|--- Toolkit: LibUFO - http://libufo.sourceforge.net/
|--- Toolkit: GLFW - http://hem.passagen.se/opengl/glfw/ //framework
|--- Toolkit: vGUI - http://paine.wiau.man.ac.uk/pub/doc_...tml/index.html
|--- Framework: TURSKA - http://turska.sourceforge.net/
|--- Framework: GLGOOEY - http://glgooey.sourceforge.net/

_DirectX: //Direct3D/Sound/Input/etc (libraries) combined together is DirectX
|-- DX Developer Center (official) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/
|-- nVidia Developer - http://developer.nvidia.com/page/home.html
|-- GameDev D3D - http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=24
|-- sunlight - http://www.sunlightd.com/Windows/DirectX/
|-- Drunken Hyena - http://www.drunkenhyena.com/
|-- NeXe Productions - http://nexe.gamedev.net/directKnowledge/ //great for beginners
|-- two kings - http://www.two-kings.de/tutorials/d3d.html //starter tutorials
|-- Groovyweb - http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/ind...0in%20direct3d //basic reference
|-- Games++ - http://www.gamespp.com/
|
|__Libraries for DirectX: //audio, mouse, keyboard, etc.
|--- CDX - http://www.cdxlib.com/

_Allegro:
|-- Allegro (official) - http://awiki.strangesoft.net/bin/view/Main/AllegroGUI //links to addons also
|-- Allegro CC - http://www.allegro.cc/?request=10443...b608ef62313f10
|-- Allegro Webring - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8890/
|-- AllegroGL - http://allegrogl.sourceforge.net/ //mix OpenGL with Allegro
|-- Allegro Vivace - http://www.glost.eclipse.co.uk/gfoot/vivace/vivace.html //tutorial
|-- LoomSoft - http://www.loomsoft.net/resources/al...ltut_index.htm //tutorial
|-- AGDN - http://agdn.netfirms.com/main/ //tutorials and examples
|-- C++ Programming - http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/ //allegro tutorials

_Mesa:
|-- Mesa3D (official) - http://www.mesa3d.org/

_Other:
|--


Game Engines:
_3D:
|-- Torque - http://www.garagegames.com/ //paid
|-- Irrlicht - http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
|-- Crystal Space - http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
|-- Genesis3D - http://www.genesis3d.com/
|-- Power Render/Prototype - http://www.powerrender.com/

_2D:
|-- Golden T - http://goldenstudios.or.id/products/GTGE/


Full Engines: //game engine, dialog engine, sound engine, etc.
|- Game Maker http://www.gamemaker.nl/

Game Development Communities:
|- Kylm.com - http://kylm.com/ // #1 biatch [:p:]
|- GameDev - http://www.gamedev.net/
|- flipcode - http://www.flipcode.com
|- Gamasutra - http://www.gamasutra.com

Game Tutorials/Articles:
|- GameTutorials - http://www.gametutorials.com/ //paid
|- GameDev - http://www.gamedev.net/
|- flipcode - http://www.flipcode.com

Concepts:
_Math:
|-- Matrices - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall.../matrices.html

_Physics:
|-- Faqsys - http://thorkildsen.no/faqsys/cates/tutorial.html

Universal Other:
|- Faqsys - http://thorkildsen.no/faqsys/cates/tutorial.html //great! source of concepts
|- Real-Time Rendering - http://www.realtimerendering.com/ //great source of information directing you to links
|- Ultralight Magazine - http://www.salleurl.edu/~manuellv/Pu...nglish.cg.html //tons of docs on game programming
|- CMP Game Group - http://www.cmpgame.com/ //gaming articles/magazine/job listings
|- Games++ - http://www.gamespp.com/ //algorithms and graphics programming
|- Half-life Programming - http://www.planethalflife.com/hlprog.../tutorials.asp

An obvious one:
http://www.gpwiki.org
It's a Game Programming Wiki. (You guessed that because it has wiki in the address, right?)

Egypt Game Developers , Yahoo mail group

groups.yahoo.com/group/EgyptGameDevelopers

there are books and games with source in the files section.

Suprised this never made any list:

http://www.devmaster.net

www.humus.ca

advanced OGL and DX shader samples.

-psychopath

I am just learning to do some gaming programming and found http://lazyfooproductions.com/SDL_tutorials/index.php to be very helpful in learning a lot of the things that are needed to do the graphics, sound and controll portions in SDL . I haven't made it through all the of the tutorials, but I would recommend it.

www.zalsoft.com :D

I would like to inform you about the new group for 2D Game Making Tutorials for newbies and not only.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/2D_Game_Making_Tutorials/

These tutorials (I hope) might help and those that are not good in programming..

Anyone is welcome to add he's own tutorials.

All tutorials are in Open Document format, so you might need to download and use the free and excellent OpenOffice Suite.

;)

Not sure if this has been posted here before but I just found it and I'm about to pop out so:

http://www.devmaster.net/articles/so...ring/part1.php

Nice meaty article about all things 3D (almost all). I'll certainly be giving this one a thorough read tonight!

out of 100's that i have looked over there is not one that i would recomend because everone who writes a tutorial learns by text and i don't.

Tons of links to other sites:

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/.../gameprog.html

And for terrain:
www.vterrain.org

http://tassadar.physics.auth.gr/~cha...php?key=opengl

This site has many free game programming books availible for download. The reason that they are free is most likely because the books are slightly dated (ie 2003 instead of 2006).

The site doesn't just have game programming books, though. It has many other categories too, like php, html, css, regular C++, and much, much, more.....

You use cygwin? You have a problem compiling Nehe's opengl tutorial?

Nehe suggests to use VC++ to follow his tutorial but I searched everywhere for a way to compile it under cygwin when I came up with a solution:

Step1: Make sure you installed the right packages
cygwin has a nice collection of packages you can install and add with nothing but a click. Make sure you have the "opengl: OpenGL -related libraries" checked.

Step2: Make sure you have the opengl dll files in your windows\system32 folder
glut32.dll glu32.dll opengl32.dll or other appropriate ones when you make use of them.

Step3: Nehe's tutorials include an old library - The GLaux Library, which apparently is not supported anymore. An easy fix would be to comment out or delete the current including of the glaux header file and include the GLUT library instead:
#include <gl\glut.h>

Step4: Now to compile it under cygwin we will use the line:

Code:

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g++ -mwindows -mno-cygwin -o myprog.exe myprog.cpp -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32

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where myprog is the file you saved the tutorial on. -mwindwos lets you have the standard libs linked in; -mno-cygwin lets your program run outside of cygwin environment; the -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32 make sure your program links the dlls.

Thats it.
Disclaimer: I am merely a beginner - this short solution may not work for you, but I think it should. Anyway hope this helps anyone out there.

http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/...tutorialA.html
Great explanation of the Separating Axis Theorem (2D Collision Detection).

Quote:

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Originally Posted by glo

You use cygwin? You have a problem compiling Nehe's opengl tutorial?

Nehe suggests to use VC++ to follow his tutorial but I searched everywhere for a way to compile it under cygwin when I came up with a solution:

Step1: Make sure you installed the right packages
cygwin has a nice collection of packages you can install and add with nothing but a click. Make sure you have the "opengl: OpenGL -related libraries" checked.

Step2: Make sure you have the opengl dll files in your windows\system32 folder
glut32.dll glu32.dll opengl32.dll or other appropriate ones when you make use of them.

Step3: Nehe's tutorials include an old library - The GLaux Library, which apparently is not supported anymore. An easy fix would be to comment out or delete the current including of the glaux header file and include the GLUT library instead:
#include <gl\glut.h>

Step4: Now to compile it under cygwin we will use the line:

Code:

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g++ -mwindows -mno-cygwin -o myprog.exe myprog.cpp -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32

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where myprog is the file you saved the tutorial on. -mwindwos lets you have the standard libs linked in; -mno-cygwin lets your program run outside of cygwin environment; the -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32 make sure your program links the dlls.

Thats it.
Disclaimer: I am merely a beginner - this short solution may not work for you, but I think it should. Anyway hope this helps anyone out there.

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Just one thing to add: at the bottom of the link you gave you can download the cygwin source code:

Quote:

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DOWNLOAD Cygwin Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Stephan Ferraro )

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Very nice utility written in VB that will take any normal bitmap, perform gnomonic projection on it and save as 6 separate bitmaps.

These 6 bitmaps then can be used as cube maps for skyboxes, environment mapping, etc - with no seams if you do it correctly.

Your original bitmap should have a 2:1 ratio.

http://www.unrealroc.com/CubeTheSphere.html

Thought this may be a good link, i found it great when i was choosing an ide and need to set up directX. Its a tutorial for setting up DirectX with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

http://www.burninghands.net/2006/04/...h-directx-sdk/

Anyone know any good 3d math sites that kind of focus on the math you can use practically within 3d rather than all encompassing theory?

hello,
did anyone purchase the tutorial cd from gametutorials ? is it worth 70 dollars?

I have bought it, also, I believe it's worth the $70.00, I learned so much from it. It may or may not be good for you, if you learn better by looking at examples of code with really detailed comments then it's good for you. I believe it's one of the best tutorials out there! Just they focus more on C++, so if you're wanting to learn a lot about C#, C# or Java, then you can, but not as much of detail as C++ has in the CD/Download.

thank you so much tylermoyer. this sound very good to me. i usually work with c and c#, but also with c++.

For those interested in making multiplayer games, here's a paper on "Trailing State Synchronization". It provides a nice overview of the major concepts involved in different schemes of game networking.
http://warriors.eecs.umich.edu/games...s/mtap-tss.pdf

Here are 2 good sdl tutorials:

Lazy Foo' Productions

and

Moosader - Games, Apps, Tutorials and more! (still under construction).

This feels like a bit of a thread necro, but I was told to post here so.... :)



The site I am recommending is Game From Scratch | The art and science of game creation, from beginning till end.


Of specific interest to most people here will be the Beginner's Guide which although a long read covers a number of topics that new game developers have to answer early on. It covers the most popular language selections, then for each language breaks down learning links, book recommendations, tool/IDE resources and the most popular programming libraries. If you are just starting out, it is a good place to begin.


If you decided to go with C++, or are a beginner level C++ programmer and want to get better there is the Game From Scratch Complete game in C++ tutorial This tutorial as also very long, currently at 8 chapters and growing, but it covers concepts in great detail. It is as much or more a C++ primer as it is a game programming tutorial. It bridges the gap between code samples and full programs showing you how to implement a non-trivial program using real world OO programming. You should be able to take what you learn here and scale it up to a game of almost any complexity. As a result, it is the worlds most engineered Pong tutorial! Note though, it will not teach you to program, it assumes you have at least a basic understanding of C or C++ programming ( syntax, ifs loops, variables, etc ). But if you have had trouble learning OO because making a dog bark isn't all that intuitive to you, this might be a good place to go.


Finally and completely unrelated is OpenGameArt.org. When starting out, its amazing how much more motivating it is to work with good artwork instead of a red box and blue triangle! The quality on this site varies massively, but some work is quite good and the price is right!

When I was first getting into the idea of Game programming I found Riemers XNA Tutorial > Home really useful, I startes with the XNA tutes and will move onto the C++/DirectX ones when I get time..

What I really would like to say is what a page of links! Lovely Jubbly! Thanks :)

The Book | OpenGLBook.com

This is a free book focusing on the new features of Open GL 4.0 there is not much depreciated material here, for a free book I was pretty surprised.
You will have to have a graphics card that supports OpenGL 4.0 in order to run 99% of the code in this book.

Really love the Google Doodle for kids programming. I think it's a really fun way of introducing programming basics to newbies and should be employed on a wider scale in the schools across Pakistan.

https://g.co/doodle/vd8xer?ds=cl

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Lord Slytherin

Really love the Google Doodle for kids programming. I think it's a really fun way of introducing programming basics to newbies and should be employed on a wider scale in the schools across Pakistan.

Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding

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Sorry bat, I will argue with you, there are many services that are much better, take even a Gabling ...

Welcome - parallelrealities.co.uk

great game programming tutorials with emphasis on software architecture. the tutorials use SDL2.