All about Games Programming
Want to program games? Do you know the difference between SDL or DirectX? What is a Vertex Shader or an A* algorithm. Find it all here.
An overview of the SDL Library
An overview of the SDL Library that is used in the C Game Programming Series of tutorials.
Game Programming in C Tutorial Six - Super Snake
Game Programming in C Tutorial Six- The Super Snake Game, with the new features (high score, demo mode and fly away scores).
Game Programming in C Tutorial Five- Snake
Game Programming in C Tutorial Five- The Snake Game, continues explaining how the snake game works..
Game Programming in C Tutorial Four- Snake
Game Programming in C Tutorial Four- The Snake Game, uses SDL to implement a graphical game with full source code and graphics.
Game Programming in C++ Tutorial Two - Star Empires
Game Programming in C Tutorial Five- The Snake Game, continues explaining how the snake game works..
Learn C++ by programming Star Empires a simple text game
This first C++ game programming tutorial uses Star Empires, a simple text game to demonstrate objects, references, vectors, printf and cout.
Powerpoint Presentation- The Next Maintream Language?
This is a fascinating Power Point presentation of 67 slides looking at the development of a major PC and console game, written in C++. He examines the problems faced in the future by increasingly faster hardware with powerful parallel processing and how those problems might be overcome with a different approach to coding.
Programming An Odometer in C with SDL
This is an article on how to program an odometer (trip meter) in C using SDL with a colorful background and scrolling digit
Programming Games in C - Tutorial One Star Empires
The first in a series of programming games in C, this introduces the game of Star Empires.
Programming Games in C - Tutorial Three on Star Empires
How to program games in C. Tutorial Three - Star Empires, on Game Loops, combat, ai and other features
Programming Games in C - Tutorial Two on Star Empires
How to program games in C. Tutorial Two. A detailed look at the C programming used in the first tutorial on the game Star Empires.
Setting Up Visual Studio/Visual C++ 2010 Express for SDL Development on Windows
Instructions on how to set up Visual C++ 2010 Express and Visual Studio 2010 for building SDL applications.
So you want to be a Game Developer?
Ever thought of programming games, either for yourself or for a game publisher. Learn what is involved.
Techniques used in games
A catalog of mechanics used in simple computer games to inspire programmres
The design of the Asteroids Game
This is the design of the Asteroids Game as part of the C Game programming tutorials, and used as a spec for the coding of the game.
The design of the game Snake for the Programming in C Tutorial
An article about the game design decisions made when creating the game Snake for tutorials four, five and beyond.
What Games Should be in the Tutorial?
This is to help with the "what games should be in the tutorial" poll, and decide What Games should be written for the Programming Games Tutorials.(Updated September 19 for final selections).
What is DirectX?
About DirectX the development library for Windows PCs.
Why I made decisions about the design of the Star Empires Game
An article about the game design decisions made when creating the game Star Empires