[Robotgroup] Free game dev and graphics books

[Vern Graner]

Cool! Thanks for the heads up! :)

Andre Lamothe wrote:
> 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'
> 
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