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General Resources

 

The Game Developer's Page

Creating Hot Games

Pedagogue Ponderings

Robot Wisdom, a decidedly odd place...

An article on converting DOS games to DirectX (recommended)

Microsoft's interactive media documents page

Interactive Fiction Resources

I Have No Words & I Must Design An article about design which, unfortunately, isn't as clever as the title.

A Chris Crawford article on the death of video games

Game Development Truisms


Ben Sawyer, "The Ultimate Game Developer's Sourcebook"; Coriolis Group, 1996

Despite the silly cover art and blurbs, this is a good book on game design and the entertainment programming industry. Recommended.


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Date this article was posted to GameDev.net: 7/16/1999
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