I though it would be a good idea if you guys shared some of the game programming learning resources you have. I've recently started DirectX, and I'm still looking for good tutorials/books. I know of a few tutorial places and some books, but all the books and tutorials start at different places and they go into different way of design, and I'm not sure which one to go with.

Anyways, Here you can post some of the resources you guys have for game programming.

I'll start first:

DirectX

- http://www.c-unit.com/tutorials/
- http://www.sunlightd.com/Windows/DirectX/
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/ --Microsoft Official DX website--
- http://www.drunkenhyena.com/
- http://www.two-kings.de/tutorials/d3d.html

OpenGL

- http://www.gamedev.net
- http://www.flipcode.com (also has some really good Win32 tuts)
- http://www.gamasutra.com
- http://nehe.gamedev.net
- http://www.opengl.org
- http://www.lighthouse3d.com
- http://www.opengl.org/documentation/red_book_1.0/index.html good

Allegro/AllegroGL

- http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
- http://allegrogl.sourceforge.net/
- http://www.grandgent.com/allegro/faq/
- http://www.grandgent.com/gfoot/vivace/vivace.html - really good..
- http://www.loomsoft.net/resources/alltut/alltut_index.htm

Other
- http://devpaks.org/
- http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/meshes.asp 3D models for your games
- http://www.devmaster.net/
- http://www.humus.ca/


DirectX/Direct3D Books
- Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 - Frank D. Luna
- Begining DirectX 9 - Wendy Jones
- Real-time Rendering tricks and techniques in DirectX
- Advanced 3D game programming with DirectX 9.0

This is all i got guys, I don't really know which ones of these links/books are bad so please feel free to speak your mind.

Also add more links!

Pinned, good job!

An excellent book for OpenGL game programming is "OpenGL Game Programming" (imagine that) by Kevin Hawkins and Dave Astle. It's part of the Prima Tech game dev series.

Great list, is Andre Lamothe' there? He's the only DirectX book writer I understand.

Why not add some more:

Cross platform Open source 3D (Game) Engine with OpenGL, Direct3D and even Blender support: OGRE

2D/3D Java, C, C++, Win32, OpenGL, DirectX tutorials
GametuTorials.com

FlipCode is dead, but their archive is still available, most of the members migrated to DevMaster.net - massive amount of tutorials at both places on OpenGL, C++, etc...

Ultimate Game Programming with: C++, C#, Java, VB.NET, OpenGL, DX9, DX10, Game Engine tutorials.

Nate Robins OpenGL tutorials and demos.

And iDevGames for the Mac - I doesn't really know this one, but it is something big.

This might be useful, too: a Java OpenGL / OpenAL wrapper lwjgl.

Tao and CsGL are C# wrappers for OpenGL, CsGL is not developed anymore, so Tao is the way to go - however its a bit pervert to use OpenGL in C# imho

A quick glimps at the embedded things: OpenGL ES (GLES)
the specifications and an open source library (Vincent), or a bit more specific one: any Symbian OS 8.0+ SDK here or from Nokia, and probably many more...


Physics:
- ODF -
Open Dynamics Framework
- PhysX (formerly Novodex) by Ageia, if you are planning for hardware acceleration

And something fun:
Indie Game Jam - really good ideas, mostly with proof of concept demos and even with source codes - but respect the copyrights please.

lots and lots of game ideas!
http://www.gamediscovery.com/
oh for now bandwith of the site is exceed but wait a few days and it will be back (i hope)

oh i forgot there is also SDL
http://www.libsdl.org

This post has been edited by dec1pher: 27 Jan, 2006 - 03:38 PM

Great Links.

Hah, I can start learning now.

here is another great link to a conference's webpage:

http://www.gdconf.com/

March 20-24
San Jose, California
@ the San Jose Convention Center

See you there (Yeah this means i'll be there i hope )

Oh yeah! If you want to make GBC or GB game roms, here is the link to the thread where I went text heavy:

Great GB/GBC stuff

I might post all the stuff needed for GBA deving when i've learned it fully too.
GameBoy/GameBoy Advance deving is awesome!

There's even a DS devkit also I should find and post, unless you want to post it first.

here's a site which i don't believe anyone here mentioned
http://www.hinjang.com/gfx/

Wow thats a great resource. Good find.