The best game programming websites on the whole of the net

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Companies

Become a Video Game Designer - Offers useful excerpts from a guide on how to become a video games designer.

The Celebrity Cafe: Carl Muller - Interview with long a long time programmer. Developed games for multiple platforms including Commodore, Sega, and Nintendo 64.

CoolGameJobs.Com - Executive search firm specializing in the electronic entertainment industry. Site provides job opening descriptions, FAQ, and industry overview.

Evermore Entertainment, Inc. - Madison, WI software developer whose products include AD & D Core Rules II Expansion and AD & D Core Rules II.

Game Publishers Directory - Alphabetical listing of links to major video game publishers.

The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers - Where are they now? A huge archive and general trivia repository for the creators of the great classic video games of the 1970s and 1980s.

The History of Video Games - Oligopolisation of the video games market (main focus: USA and the UK), the gameplaying experience, and the patriarchal nature of the industry.

Independent Games - Information, links, and a game database for players and developers of independently produced computer and video games.

iNOIZ - Provides music, sound effects, animation, 3D artwork, and models to gaming professionals.

International Game Developers Association - Independent, non-profit organization for game software developers. The site features news, membership information, articles, and forums.

Kevin Toms - Independent developer of Football manager.

MagicSeven Studio - Developer of shareware puzzle and logic games. Offers downloads and FAQ.

The Oliver Twins - History of the games written by The Oliver Twins.

Smarterville - Developer of educational software for kids 3-7. Offers game information and downloads.

Soundz Wicked - Provides digital audio production services for the film, TV, internet and video game industries.

South African Game Development - News and resources for developers based out of South Africa.

SurvivorSoft - Developer of eDerby.

the.Konnexion - Information about the Java game developer Krisis Entertainment.

Thought Guild Inc. - Licensing agency presents wide variety of games and software available for licensing, distributing or OEM contracts.

Meet David Crane: Video Game Guru - Article by Colin Covert

Libaries

Arcade 2D - A complete 2D Game Development Kit, featuring a completely modular 2D game engine and a set of powerful and easy to use utilities to get you started really fast.

Betatron - For the creation of 2D-platform and action-arcade games in C++ for the DJGPP v2.0 compiler. [Open Source]

ClanLib - ClanLib is an opensource cross platfrom Game SDK. Currently is works on Linux and Win32.

Clean Game Library - Complete development system for creating tile-based games with the functional language Clean. Includes several example games.

GUT - The Grand Unified Toolkit (GUT) is a C++ library targeted towards the development of games and other forms of interactive media.

Jet3D - Jet3D is a (commercial) free and open source realtime 3D graphics engine and SDK.

Kyra - A simple, fully featured, industrial strength SDL Sprite engine written in C++. [Free for non-commercial use.]

libksd - A cross-platform SDL game framework (written in C++) that would allow you write your game once and compile it for multiple operating systems and environments, including: Linux/X11, Linux/SVGAlib, MacOs, Windows, and BeOs. [Open Source - LGPL]

libMgTk - A SDL library that has a set of C++ classes to do graphics and audio.

MIDAS Digital Audio System - MIDAS is a multichannel digital sound system. It supports DOS, Win32, and Linux platforms and plays Protracker (.mod), Scream Tracker 3 (.s3m), FastTracker 2 (.xm) and Impulse Tracker (.it) modules, as well as samples and audio streams in raw or WAVE . MIDAS is free for non-commercial usage.

PathLib - Pathfinding library for games, optimal paths through maps, timing objects and their movements through maps. Sample application available.

PenguinPlay - A free and open source Game SDK in development, that provides an environment for games and multimedia applications on Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

The Photon Effect - libCON DirectX C++ libraries and ColDet collision detection libraries. Documentation, tools, code examples, and game skeletons available.

PowerPak GSDK - A GUI and networking game programming library that is meant to be portable across platforms. Stable releases support Linux on various architectures, BeOS, FreeBSD and Windows.

RAD Gametools - Develops game software technologies which are licensed by primarily by video game companies.

Regimental Command - A generic armored combat system.

SciTech MGL - An open source (MPL) game library containing an implementation of OpenGL, sprite management, full screen support, and hardware triple buffering.

SDL Console - A console that can be added to any SDL application. It is similar to Quake and other game consoles.

SDL: Simple DirectMedia Layer - Free LGPL, multi-media, portable multi/cross-platform library, low level access, graphics development API, supporting: events, threads, video framebuffer, sound, networking, mouse, keyboard. MacOS support being developed.

SDLMappy - Library that uses 2D tiles based maps created by Mappy. It allows layer transparency, animations, and the creation of up to eight different layers.

SDLSprite - This C++ class contains the datas and functions required to display animated sprites from a BMP file.

Titan - A C++ based library to load/save game-related file formats, such as graphics, sound and 3d meshes.

Personal Pages

Blackshade - Information about programming production.

C Gurus - Programs, source code, and tutorials.

Code Warrior - A site for amature programmers who are interested in learning a language, or honing their skills.

Crazy Vasey's - Information on learning to program in C/C++ and Half Life maps.

Cubic Expansion - Featuring graphics, programming, games, hobbies and ideas.

Da Krazed Programmer - Programming in BASIC (3D).

Etomic Software - Game previews and programming links.

Game Programming Galaxy - Tutorials, tools, and projects.

Imnes: Game Programmer's Homepage - Imnes' homepage. Information, tutorials, and links relating to games and game programming and development.

Lingoman - Website of an expert in Macromedia Director Lingo scripting and reusable code and behaviors. Extensive knowledge on Shockwave, multimedia, and Flash games.

Martin Otten's Quake Programming Site - Tools for Quake 3 Arena with VC++ source code available. The Argus source includes the Quake DM3 format.

Merlin's Library of Game Programming - Information on DirectX, game design, graphics, and AI with message boards.

Mike's Micellaneous Mess - Development site with tutorials, an introduction to DirectX and a game idea center.

Programming of magic games - Pages Sergey Anisimov for games development on BC ++ VESA.

Prosoft Games - Several small programs and some code that may be useful to other programmers.

Q Games Development - Game developer using DIV Games Studio.

Reidonius' Programming Lair - devoted to the C++ and Windows ventures and projects of Reid Howard.

Sean Wilson's Programming Site - Games and graphics programming, programs with full source code.

Solosnake - Homemade application downloads, details on how to edit levels in Red Stroms Rogue Spear, some open source code in C++.

Stalker's Game development site - Tutorials and examples on game programming in C++ & ASMx86. mostly for Windows and DirectX.

Steven's Home Page - Games information and source code.

Synthetic Software - Basic information about Pascal.

Unit 01 - This is a personal site about an RLG the author is currently programing.

www.aaronkingsley.com - Visual Basic source code, Spiders Invaders video game, and Australian football information.

Yves Debilloez - Chess, computer chess, programming, algorithms, AI, and connect 4. Free download of source code and games.

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Websites!

Game Developer Magazine- A monthly publication that delivers technical, how-to articles

NeHe Productions- An excellent site for OpenGL programming. Many tutorials, sample programs/games, and source code. A CD is available for order containing all of the site and more.

Alberto C. Saldamando's - Video game programming links.

AmaDev - Independent resource site for game developers.

Amit's Game Programmer Information - Game Programming and AI Resources

Atmo3d Domain - Game Developers resource with gaming news, articles, and programming tutorials.

Blitz Basic - A specialized version of BASIC designed specifically for game development. Includes features like custom types and functions. Code is compiled before execution to speed things up.

CFXweb - Demo and Game Development - Daily news, articles, art gallery, downloads, games, demos, demo scene news, forums, online irc clients, and source code.

Coder's Chaos - Game programming info, code, and files in ASM and C/C++

Combat Aircraft Simulation - Resources for developing a flight simulator.

Creating Worlds - General information on game programming with intro docs, Watcom C/C++, 3D graphics, and DirectX.

A Critical Look at Programming Languages - An article by Tim Sweeney on the evolution and future of programming languages as it relates to game development.

2Dgame.nl - Ten step tutorial for programming a 2-dimensional parrallax-scroller with realistic physics, sound, and music.

DIV Design Studio - Community site for programming with DIV.

DIV Games Studio - An easy to use environment for creating games using a specially designed and much simplified coding language that requires no previous knowledge of programming but which can be extended with C or C++.

Dungeon Crawl Software - Directory of hundreds of resources for the game developer.

DXC Companion - Tutorials and resources for the DX-Creator.

East Coast Games - training new programmers and to making great games, tutorials on C/C++, Java and DirectX, several games written for Windows (freeware).

Easy Games Programming - Downloads, examples, help, links and tutorials about new game programming tools, even those that are not yet widely known.

e-Software - Help for beginner game programmers.

Exaflop - A programmers' resource with extensive resources related to graphics and games programming.

FireStorm Entertainment - Tutorials for C++, DirectX, and 3d Studio Max. Also some games and other examples with source code.

flipCode - Find articles, coding techniques, news, and interviews relating to Game programming. A fair number of specific tutorials as well.

Gamasutra - The Art and Science of making Games.

Game Development Central - A site for beginners to learn about game development. Subjects include: programming, selling a game, operating systems, Java, Digital Video, Digital Audio, MIDI, 3D content, how games work, the game development cycle, and how to get started.

Game Development Search Engine, The - Web portal and search engine dedicated to game development. Links to articles, tutorials and source code that cover all aspects of game development. Read and post to game development newsgroups.

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GameDeveloper.net - Good site with many tutorials. Subjects include 2D/3D, physics, AI, and others. Covers OpenGL, DirectX, game design, graphic art, and more.

GameDevelopers.com - Links, book reviews, and software.

GameDev.net - The Ultimate Source for Game Development Info. Featuring a huge reference library and weekly interviews of professionals inside the industry. Participate in a public game development project.

GameProgrammer.com - Game and graphics programming articles of interest to game programmers with all levels of experience.

Games Creation Resources - Game creation programs for non-programmers.

Games++ Megasite - Game Programming, Online Games, Cheats, Tutorials, References, Direct X, C/C++, Java, and much more!

Games Research - Materials from, and links to resources related to, the Siggraph 2000 course "Games Research: the Science of Interactive Entertainment"

GamesCoding UK - Overview of different languages and libraries for game programming, demo programs, "projects" (tutorials), and news about the industry.

GarageGames.com - An online game development community and resource center, keeping independent and professional developers connected to their peers, the industry and cutting edge information, tools and code.

Gepard Studio - Downloads for game programming, along with some Java, Linux, Dos and Windows games.

Guldan's - Tutorial on writing the game logic for a simple 2D Tetris game in C++.

Irt.org - Design challenges, tutorials, and articles on coding design.

Jay's Game Programming Page - Tutorials, references, and downloads for coding games using DJGPP and other C variants.

JJC's Programming Techniques for Games - Descriptions of techniques through derivation, text, and graphics. Techniques include texture mapping, collision detection, and tile caching.

KamKa Dreamcast Programming - News, downloads, tools, and information for using GNU and GPL tools to program for the Dreamcast.

Knowledge Hound - Tutorials, tips, and how-to guides for game programmers of all types.

Mappy for PC (DOS and Win95) - A utility for creating flexible 'maps' for tile based 2D games (scrolling shoot-em-ups, or 8-way scrolling adventures, whatever).

The New Game Programmer's Guild

Pakistan Gamers Club - Learn game programming online using OPGC Trainee.

Pawn's - Libraries and tutorials many of which focus on audio issues.

PC Game Programming Explorer - Book by Dave Roberts that takes readers inside the world of PC game programming and reveals the essential techniques to make game programming easy and fun.

Programmer's Lair - A unique and comprehensive game programming web page. Has information on AI, sound, DirectX, and books.

Quake Developers Pages - Information and resources for quake developers

Rise Game Development Home Page - Tutorials on games and QBasic along with developer tools downloads.

RPG game programming page - Page related to RPG programming. Has a freeware game (not finished, but in development) w/ all its sources

Simple Game Engine - Information, screenshots and downloads for Simple Game Engine (freeware) that enables you to write your own games using a definition language.

SoftLight Development - Lots of programs and source code, development tools, Direct X examples, and killer links. With a Windows focus.

TI 83/86 Program Source Code - TI-83 and 86 Source Code for several games. All games can be programed directly onto your calculator.

The Verge Source - Articles and downloads for the game programmer.

Ziron Multimedia - Links to articles, source code, and tutorials.

zstar - An extensible, distributed system for game development, consisting of an abstract game client, and a game server to which players connect to play games against other players or alone

Linux

The ClanLib Game SDK - A cross development platform for developing games for Linux and/or Windows. News, about, features, download, documentation, FAQ, mailing list, IRC information, and links.

The Game Programming Toolchest (GTC) - Pre-alpha library of various things useful for games. Code put under the GNU LGPL. Downloads, screenshots and links on site.

The Linux Game Programming Webring - Collection of sites concerned with Linux Game Programming. You can also find links to games from these sites.

PenguinPlay - An opensource Game SDK in development, that provides an environment to create and port game and multimedia applications to the Unix like operating systems.

Quest/Linux Homepage - A linux port of a fully featured and widely used DOS-based Quake level editor.

Steve's Portable Game Library Page - Set of OpenSource (LGPL) libraries for writing games and other realtime interactive applications that are 100% portable.

XSpriteWorld ++ - A C++/Qt API for X11 and Linux that handles game sprites.

Windows

Blue Orb Software - A CSG editor, programming tricks, and an DirectX example game.

DX++ The DirectX Programming Site - DX++ The definitive DirectX programming site. Here you can find articles, classes and examples demo's using DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound and DirectPlay.

Game Programming Bookmark - Game development resources - A comprehensive directory of Game programming sites, information, resources, game development tips, articles, libraries & engines, tutorials and guides. Find everything about game development here. You can browse by category or search for keywords.

GamesBasic - Game creation programming language similar to BASIC with extended commands to support graphics, sounds, networking and input devices. Requires DirectX 5 or later. (Open Source)

Hot Windows 95 Game Programming - Information on game developing for Windows 95, including information about DirectX.

Kimbro Software - A graphical editor to create tiles and other images for strategy games using DirectX.

Outlast Game Dev - Several tools for Windows programming and a sound engine.

The Win95 Game Programmer's Encyclopedia - An excellent resource for Windows 95 game programming.

The World of ZlaGad - File managers, map managers, and RTS programming secrets for sale.