Recommended Reading on Game Design & Game Development

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Articles

Advice For Aspiring Indie Game Developers

8 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE GAME PROGRAMMERS

How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days:

How to Build an RPG in a Week

The Indie Ethos

How to make games for visually impaired children

Natural Funativity

Terrain Reasoning for 3D Action Games


Overview of the AI techniques used in the game KillZone  (PDF)

 
Video Game Revolution  (Lots of articles here)

How many frames per second can the human eye see?

Make Games, Not Engines


Why Johnny can't code

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 Building a Game Engine ?

 Game Engine Anatomy 101  

 Movement Mechanics in "The Legend of Zelda"

 3D Game Programming

 Learning To Love Your Z buffer  

 The Making of "Shadow Of The Colossus" (PDF)

 Making Games for a Living ?

 Game Biz Advice page  (great FAQ!)

 GDC 09: Everything you wanted to know about going indie...  (2dBoy talk about going Indie)

How To: Create your own game company, Part One

How To: Create your own game company, Part Two

 Successful Shareware

 Das Uberspiel: Pitching Your Game To A Publisher

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-heres-how-many-games-i-sell.html

Should working in games be more fun?

Indie Legals 1.01: Starting an indie game company

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 Legals ?

10 Big Myths about copyright explained

Keeping the Pirates at Bay:Implementing Crack Protection for Spyro: Year of the Dragon

 Hardware Statistics

 Break Down of Windows machines

 Game Programming Books

 The Art of Computer Game Design  (PDF - Link @ Bottom Of Page)

 How to Make Money by playing Video Games (ebook)

 Physics For Dummies Download dummies (ebook)


 http://www.freetechbooks.com/    This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books..

Understanding Technology

  Understanding Moore's Law

  CPU vs. GPU

  A nice article about CPU's