Resources pertaining Games from our Programming category

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

2DNow - A forum for people interested in independent 2D game development.

3Ddrome - News

3rdlife.net - A game community driven game programming and modding website. Includes tutorials and articles

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.

A* Pathfinding for Beginners - Introduction to the A* path finding algorithm.

AAAI page on Video Games - Toys

Action Arcade Adventure Set - The entire book by Diana Gruber describing how to make a side scrolling game.

AI Wisdom - Attempts to catalogue every game AI article ever written in game development books

Amit's Game Programming Information - Descriptions of algorithms for artificial intelligence

Amit's Thoughts on Path-Finding - Online paper about path-finding

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Computer Games - Companion site for the book "Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games: An Introduction." Includes bibliography

ASCII Robot Soccer - Unix soccer-like testbed. Source code (C++ with curses and termcap)

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.

BlueParrots - C

Bug in the Machine - Game programming site. Sources

CFXweb - Demo and Game Development - Daily news

CGF-AI Links to Game AI and Tactical AI Resources - A number of annotated links referring to tactical AI (for games

Chinook - Checkers program written by Jonathan Schaeffer et al.; play online. Publications

Command Forces Simulation (CFOR) - Battlefield command and control testbed and knowledge base. Publications

Cylinder Based Collision Detection - A game programming tutorial on Cylinder based collision detection and response.

Daneu - Ales

DIV Design Studio - Community site for programming with DIV.

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

Dynamic Stochastic Control - A New Approach To Game Tree Searching - Robin Upton's Ph.D. Thesis uses this branch of Probability Theory to generalise conspiracy numbers

East Coast Games - training new programmers and to making great games

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

Excalibur - Our goal is to develop a generic architecture for autonomously operating agents

flipCode - Find articles

Fuzzy-Mail-List - archive by thread

Fy Software - Game developement

Gamasutra - The Art and Science of making Games.

Game AI - Publications

Game Algorithms - Algorithms

Game Artificial Intelligence Articles and Research - This site contains a comprehesive database of Artificial Intelligence articles specific to games that appeared in game programming books

Game Developer Magazine - A monthly publication that delivers technical

Game Development Search Engine - The

Game LS - The game development resource community driven database of sites

Game Semantics or Linear Logic? - A discussion of how linear logic relates to computability logic

Game Tutorials - Over one hundred tutorials in C/C++ for the beginning programmer.

GameDev.net - Featuring a huge reference library and weekly interviews of professionals inside the industry. Participate in a public game development project.

GameDev.net -- Artificial Intelligence - Gamedev.net is the leading resource for game developers

Gamedev.org - Game development discussion forum.

GameDeveloper.net - Good site with many tutorials. Subjects include 2D/3D

GameFurnace - Open source games

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

GameProgrammer.org - Game programming news

GameProgrammer.org - Game programming tutorials

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

Games Research - Materials from

GAMES Research Group - The GAMES research group produces high-performance

Games++ Megasite - Game programming

GarageGames.com - An online game development community and resource center

Gepard Studio - Downloads for game programming

GGD - Global Game Developer - Provides tools and knowledge needed to create and distribute games. Including tutorials

GIB Research - Bridge program written by Matthew Ginsberg. Results

Goal Seeker -- Solving the 15 Puzzle - A JAVA framework that implements heuristic goal-seeking algorithms. Using this framework will allow developers to focus on a specific domain of interest

GRIDWARS - The GRID WARS Challenge is a parallel programming challenge where developers submit battle programs that fight for control of parallel processors.

Home Page of the International Computer Games Association (IGDA) - Information from the ICGA organization

How to Start a Gameproject/Gamedevelop Company - Article from a swedish programmer. Also related links.

IGDA - Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group - IGDA has set up the AI Interface Standards Committee to develop AI interface standards for computer games. The initiative is a joint effort of game AI developers

Impacto - A tool to make games and multimedia applications.

Imperial Snowman Soft - Game programming resources for VB

InTheory - A forum that encourages descussion about Game Theory

Irt.org - Design challenges

John Laird's Artificial Intelligence & Computer Games Research - Information about some research on Computer Games and Artificial Intelligence in academia.

Knowledge Hound - Tutorials

Kynogon - an Artificial Intelligence expert for the video game industry

Logistello - Othello program written by Michael Buro. Publications

LunaticSystems - An independent game developer's site containing resources such as tutorials

Machine Learning in Games - Review of research and implementations in Backgammon

Mappy for PC (DOS and Win95) - A utility for creating flexible 'maps' for tile based 2D games (scrolling shoot-em-ups

NeHe Productions - OpenGL programming. Many tutorials

Paul Hsieh - Source code

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.

Pixelate - An online gameprogramming magazine.

Quake Developers Pages - Information and resources for quake developers

Ray Game Designer - Freeware 3D construction kit for Windows based on a RayCaster.

Reprints of Works by Diana Gruber - Articles and book chapters by Diana Gruber on the subject of game design and programming.

Repune - Multiplayer snake game with C sources. [Open source

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

RoboCup: The Robot World Cup - Aims to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.

RPG game programming page - Page related to RPG programming. Has a freeware game (not finished

SimBionic - An intelligent agent toolkit that lets you create behaviors within games and simulations quickly and easily

Simple Game Engine - Information

SoftLight Development - Lots of programs and source code

Steering Behaviors - Description of techniques to autonomously steer vehicles through a predefined virtual world. Simple behaviors (e.g. obstacle avoidance) can be combined to create more complex behaviors.

Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters - Description of simple techniques for controlling goal-directed motion of simulated characters around their world

The Game AI Page - Building Artificial Intelligence into Games

The Game Programming Wiki - Game programming tutorials and source code.

The Playground Project - Building computer environments for 4-8 year-olds to play

Toymaker - Aimed mainly at the new games programmer. It contains notes and answers to common questions with examples in C++ and DirectX. Resources. T2

Unofficial DM2 Description - Technical information about the DM2 data format.

Web Game Builder - Free resource for anyone wishing to write online games. Offering tutorials

XDev.ru - Games development articles and tutorials. Game industry news.

XeNTaX's MultiEx - MultiEx allows you to extract and import files from over 90 game data formats (including HOG

Xtreme Games - Free tools and source code and an offer to sign up new developers for joint ventures for a general pooling of resources.

Zingtech Computer Solutions - Development site with tutorials

Ziron Multimedia - Links to articles

zstar - An extensible