Technical external resources

About game programming

• Programming Linux Games, a whole book available online (more than 400 pages) [PDF]
• gamedev, especially cone3d
• 2dgame-tutorial
• gametutorials
• SDL official site
• Independant Games Festival
• Spiderweb Software
• Avec quoi puis-je faire un jeu ? [in french]

Languages

C / C++

• a much appreciated freely downloadable book
• C/C++ Reference
• SGI's Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
• C++:Beyond The Standard Library
• DevX portal
• C standard library
• C++ taught by examples [in french]
• La Foire Aux Questions de fr.comp.lang.c++ [in french]
• Introduction au C++ et à la programmation objet, by Emmanuel Courcelle [in french]
• Cours de C/C++, by Christian Casteyde [in french]

Python

• Python official site [Module index]
• Dive into Python
• Boost.Python

Erlang

• Official site
• French main site
• Projects with Erlang
• the Rei Framework [French]

About libraries and plug-in

• GNU Libtool and libltdl
• Shared objects for the object disoriented!
• Program Library HOWTO
• Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad

About SDL

• Official SDL website
• Introduction to SDL, by Sam Lantinga, a little outdated
• openGL + SDL presentation, by Bob Pendleton
• Sam Lantinga's tutorial about game creation under Linux : part [1/5], [2/5], [3/5], [4/5], [5/5]
• A graphics tutorial with SDL and C/C++

About OpenGL

• The well known OpenGL Red Book [PDF] [alternate download location]
• The famous NeHe OpenGL tutorials
• OpenGL + SDL including the NeHe tutorials converted to SDL+OpenGL

Libraries for game programming

• Kyra, a C++ sprite engine
• OSDL (of course !)

Tools

About development

• Valgrind, the nec plus ultra to debug and profile x86-Linux programs, in a IBM/Rational purify fashion
• doxygen : to generate documentation from sources
• graphviz (a.k.a. dot) : allows doxygen to generate graphs (inheritance, collaboration)
• GNU binutils : a package (to be recompiled with one's compiler) which handles binaries, most useful for libraries
• Arstistic Style (a.k.a. astyle) : a free, fast and small automatic indentation filter for C, C++, and Java source codes, useful to enfore coding conventions in a team of developers
• CVS : the standard version control system
• Subversion, the next-generation CVS
• GNU Compiler Collection (a.k.a gcc)
• Intel C++ compiler (not for commercial use, see licence)
• Various Borland free compilers, including C++, for trial and demo purposes
• Bloodshed Dev-C++, a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language
• Code::Blocks, an open source, cross platform Free C++ IDE
• MinGW, tools to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs

About authoring

Websites

• HTML tidy : a tool to ensure strict W3C conformance of one's web pages
• Link Checker : an online W3C validator which scans websites for dead html links

2D content

• Cenon , for editor and constructing vectorized graphics
• The Gimp, the famous GNU Image Manipulation Program

3D content

• Blender, a famous 3D modeler, actually a complete 3D authoring chain
• KPovModeler, a specialized modeler for POV
• POV-Ray, another famous renderer, named Persistence of Vision Raytracer, computes high-quality three-dimensional graphics

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