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Monday, 13 June 2005 |
C and C++ Programming Tutorials and Tools
http://www.cprogramming.com/
Website with C and C++ tutorials. Great for beginners to get started with.
http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_cbuilder.html
Borland provide their C/C++ compiler and command line tools available
for free download. Programming without an IDE can be difficult for more
advanced development tasks, but this is a great deal for those getting
started with simple programs or tutorials.
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Metapad is a lightweight text editor with the minimum feature set for
coding. Good for rapidly programming small applications or tutorials.
http://www.bloodshed.net/download.html
Bloodshed's Dev-C++ is a free IDE that uses the Mingw GNU C/C++ compiler. It is free (GPL), and works for all Windows platforms.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
For professional Windows development, there is nothing close to Visual
Studio for power, scale and features. It comes with a price tag (around
$100 for Visual C++), however if you can afford it it's a gamedev
company's #1 software investment.
PlayStation 3 Graphics Programming: Getting Started
http://www.opengl.org/
A good place to begin, OpenGL is an industry standard graphics API used by games like Doom 3.
http://nehe.gamedev.net/
NeHe Productions has some of the best and accessible OpenGL tutorials
out there. A great place to learn basic OpenGL graphics programming.
PlayStation 3 Graphics Programming: Advanced Topics
http://www.khronos.org/opengles/
The OpenGL|ES homepage on khronos.org contains the specifications,
white papers, tutorials, sample code and more. Sony have said the
PlayStation 3 will use a modified version of OpenGL|ES as its graphics
API.
http://developer.nvidia.com/page/cg_main.html
Cg is nVIDIA's GPU shader language, an advanced form of which will be used on the PlayStation 3's RSX graphics card.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~lkolker/cgTutorial/
A large tutorial on Cg.
General Game Development Resources
http://www.gamedev.net and #gamedev on afternet
A great all-round resource for new or intermediate stage game developers. Lots of articles and friendly, helpful forums.
http://www.gamasutra.com
"The Art and Science of Making Games". Gamasutra features articles on many advanced topics and techniques in game development.
http://ps3dev.info/breaking-in.html
An article about what you need to know if you want to break into the games industry.
If you have any suggestions for additions to this page, please let me know. Thanks, and happy developing!
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