[Robotgroup] Free game dev and graphics books

[Andre Lamothe]

For those interested in gaming as well...

David Perry is the former CEO of Shiny entertainment (the matrix, earthworm 
jim, MDK, messiah, etc.). Anyway, he is a friend of mine from the game dev 
realm and has built a wiki for game dev and related technology. I licensed 
him a couple books to put on the wiki and they are up. Someone did a LOT of 
work converting them :)

Anyway, one is a 3D book from 1995, still pertinent to 3D if you are not 
using windows (math is math). And the other is a windows, directx game dev 
book which is still 100% up to date on the gamedev side (algorithms, AI, 
physics, etc.) and supports DirectX 7/8/9 in 2D. In any event, here are the 
links:

http://www.dpfiles.com/dpfileswiki/index.php?title=Black_Art_of_3D_Game_Programming:_Writing_Your_Own_High-Speed_3D_Polygon_Video_Games_in_C

http://www.dpfiles.com/dpfileswiki/index.php?title=Tricks_of_the_Windows_Game_Programming_Gurus:_The_Fundamentals_of_2D_and_3D_Game_Programming

Definitely take a look at all the other books that are there for free. His 
"transcoder" person spent so much time, he literally had to scan the books 
in, and then redo the figures from the hard copies, since none of us had 
electronic versions anymore.

Andre'