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Programming Linux Games
Post Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:02 pm by ndaru Reply with quote
Programming Linux Games

Author(s) : John R. Hall and Loki Software Inc
Publication date : Aug 2001
ISBN : 1-886-41149-2
Pages : 415
Publisher : No Starch Press

Book excerpts:

This is a complete guide to developing 2D Linux games, written by the Linux gaming experts. It discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very thorough discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of Linux game programming. Readers will learn about the state of the Linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community.

One should notice however, that this book doesn't discuss 3D game programming.

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Smile "This book decribes everything you need to know to make a high quality 2D game in Linux with easy to understand tutorials."

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Post Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:35 am by pr_tiglao Reply with quote
The link is dead Sad

http://csx.calvin.edu/JSPWiki/attach?page=GameSIG%2FProgramming+Linux+Games.pdf

This one however, is alive still Smile
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So sad...
Post Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:49 am by ndaru Reply with quote
Thank you pr_tiglao Smile

I guess it's time to send a notice to John R. Hall. In the meantime, the link stays.
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Game Development Technical Materials
Post Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:38 am by kelin Reply with quote
Hi,

I collected a great deal of Game Development Technical Materials, helpful for you!

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Sorry, Kelin
Post Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:59 am by ndaru Reply with quote
Kelin, I know you work hard to make such a huge collection. But I checked some of your books, and there is no mentioning from the authors or the publishers about releasing them as a free material.

So I have to remove the link to your FTP server .

Sorry. Smile
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Re: Game Development Technical Materials
Post Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:00 am by zero0w Reply with quote
kelin wrote:
Hi,

I collected a great deal of Game Development Technical Materials, helpful for you!

(link removed - read the post below)


It looks like many of these e-books are illegal to distribute without publisher's or author's permission.
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