Resources

Game Resources

• Game Web Sites:
  • GameTutorials.com: http://www.gametutorials.com/
  • Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/
  • FlipCode.com: http://www.flipcode.com/
  • GameDeveloper.net: http://www.gamedev.net/
  • IGDA (Intl. Game Developers Assoc.): http://www.igdn.com/
  • NZGDA (NZ Game Developers Assoc.): http://www.nzgda.com/
  • IGDA Auckland Student Chapter: http://auckland.igda.org.nz/
  • Virtual Terrain Project: http://www.vterrain.org/
    • New Zealand virtual terrain sources
    • Volcanoes of Auckland (with VRML 3D virtual fly throughs)
• Game Engines:
  • Fly3D: http://www.fly3d.com.br/
    • Fly3D HTML Help pages (click on link to open or right click and use "Save Target As" to download)
  • The Nebula Device: http://www.nebuladevice.org/
• Web articles and info for "newbies" who wish to become game programmers
  • So You Want To Enter The Game Industry? by Ben "Digiben" Humphrey of GameTutorials.com 
  • So you want to be a games designer? by Ed Bartlett of bitmap-brothers.co.uk 
  • DigiPen Institute of Technology - the Ultimate Game Developer's School (DigiBen's alma mater)
• Data files and other resources
  • Site for free 3D polygon mesh models: 3D Cafe.
  • Quake II and Quake II models, tools, specs, etc.:http://www.planetquake.com/polycount.

Textbooks and reference books:

• OpenGL
  • Edward Angel, "OpenGL, A Primer", Addison Wesley Longman, 2002.
  • OpenGL Architecture Review Board (Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis), "OpenGL Programming Guide", Second or Third Edition, Addison Wesley Longman.
• Windows Programming
  • Prosise, "Programming Windows with MFC"
  • Petzold, "Programming Windows"
  • Richter, "Advanced Windows"
• 3D Computer Graphics
  • Hill, F.S., "Computer Graphics using Open GL", 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2001
  • Edward Angel, "Interactive Computer Graphics, A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL", Third Edition, Addison Wesley Longman, 2003
• Game Graphics and Programming
  • David H. Eberly, "3D Game Engine Design", Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
  • Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, "Real-Time Rendering", 2nd edition, A K Peters Ltd, 2002.
  • Andre LaMothe, "Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus", SAMS Publishing, 2003.
  • Alan Watt, Fabio Policarpo, "3D Games (Vol. 1) - Real-time Rendering and Software Technology ", Addison Wesley, 2003.
  • Alan Watt, Fabio Policarpo, "3D Games (Vol. 2) - Animation and Advanced Real-Time Rendering ", Addison Wesley, 2003.
• Gaming-related topics
  • David Luebke, Martin Reddy, Jonathan D. Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Benjamin Watson, Robert Huebner, "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics", Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
  • Sandeep Singhal and Michale Zyda, "Networked Virtual Environments, Design and Implementation",  ACM Press and Addison Wesley Longman, 1999 (ISBN 0-201-32557-8).

Graphics & Programming Resources

• OpenGL/GLU
  • IntroductionToOpenGLand.NET: Tutorial which explains how OpenGL projects are created using MS Visual C/C++ 7.0 under .NET (used in COMPSCI 372 S1 C).
    
    • Example in section 1.1: Available as source file ass1a.cpp
    • Example in section 1.4: Available as .NET solution OpenGLExampleNET.zip or source file drawObjects.cpp
  • Microsoft OpenGL/GLU libraries and header files: opengl95.exe
  • OpenGL/GLU manual: indexOpenGLManual.html ( also available as download GLandGLU_man_pages.zip)
  • OpenGL v.1.3 specification: OpenGL_spec_1_3.pdf
  • OpenGL v.1.5. specification: glspec15.pdf
  • OpenGL v2.0 specification: glspec20.pdf
  • OpenGL Shading Language specification v1.10: GLSLangSpec.Full.1.10.59.pdf
  • OpenGL extensions header: glext.h
  • OpenGL Examples (from the OpenGL Programming Guide): Available as .NET solution OpenGL_ExamplesNET.zip, as VS 6.0 workspace OpenGL_ExamplesVS6.zip or as individual source files OpenGL_ExamplesSourceFiles.zip.
  • (Semi-)automated extension loading libraries: GLEW, GLee, extglgen, OglExt
• GLUT
  • GLUT libraries and header files (compatible with opengl32 and glu32). Originally written by Mark Kilgard, ported to Win32 (Windows 95,98,Me,NT,2000,XP) by Nate Robins: glut-3_7_6-bin.zip
  • GLUT manual (ps-files): indexGLUTManual.html ( also available as download GLUT_man_pages.zip)
  • GLUT v.3 specification: glut-3-spec.pdf
  • GLUT manual: online HTML files at opengl.org web site.
• ANSI C
  • DEC C Language manual (contains all ANSI C constructs and some DEC specific extensions): DEC C Language manual
  • ANSI C Standard Library: DEC C documentation or C Standard Library documentation by Ross Richardson.
• C++
  • Thinking in C++, Copyright (c) 2000, Bruce Eckel (http://www.BruceEckel.com). The following two links are local copies for use in this class only:
    • Volume 1: Contents
    • Volume 2: Contents
  •   Some notes for Java programmers who are learning C++
  •   Some notes comparing C++ and Java