Any good books?

[Pennywise]

Hello

I was wondering if there is any good books on game development for total beginners. I have almost read all of my C++ Programming book and think it's time I think about a book on game development. Christmas is only about 2 months away.

What I really need is a book explaining all the concepts of game development and all that crap. I'm hoping for one that really explains everything in detail.

It would be nice to know what game development related books you learned from when you were noobs.

Thanks

PS: Sorry for the quite frequent question posts.

[avansc]

two books i have that are very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Core-Techniques-A ... 0131020099

good theory book.

http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Programmin ... 0672318350

this one is a beast 1600 pages, probably the most complete book on the matter (note it uses directx). its a bit old, but still very nice. basically babies your though making a quake2 engine.

[Pennywise]

Thanks avansc for those book suggestions ^^

Do you know of any books that explore the 2d game development concepts? I'm looking into making 2d games before reading a book on making a 3d Engine.

[avansc]

Thanks avansc for those book suggestions ^^

Do you know of any books that explore the 2d game development concepts? I'm looking into making 2d games before reading a book on making a 3d Engine.

http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Game-Dev ... 948&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Focus-Direct3D-Pr ... 898&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Isometric-Program ... 898&sr=1-1

[Pennywise]

Them books are so bloody expensive in England but my book of choice looks like it might be Advanced 2d Game Development or Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming.

Thanks again for your book suggestions avansc.

[Pennywise]

What do you guys think of reading the book Focus on SDL to learn to make games?

[Milch]

Some weeks ago, this book was released
http://www.amazon.de/Game-Engine-Archit ... 913&sr=8-1

As far as I know most of it is theoretical. So no C/C++ exercises ;D

[Pennywise]

This book looks promising ^^

Thanks Milch

[hurstshifter]

What do you guys think of reading the book Focus on SDL to learn to make games?

Focus on SDL is a good book to learn the SDL library, but really will not help you learn to make games. If it's SDL you are considering why don't you try the lazyfoo tutorials http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php

[Milch]

Dont forget reading the articles on Lazy Foo!
These also feature good stuff for game developement.
So you might also want to check these.

[Pennywise]

Thanks for all your help ^^
I look up Lazy Foo's tutorials to learn the SDL library.