Sumber2 Game Programming Dan Design 101

[C-Fu 0]

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Last Updated: 16 September

Let me start by saying that to start a project is dead easy, anybody can do it.

But to finish it off, that's the hard part.

And the last 10% to complete the project will make your head explode

That said, I'd say that there are a couple of distinct schools of thoughts on stuff related to gaming:

- Commercial gaming

- Research gaming

My terms lah but basically there are two paths that you can choose if you want to work in a game-related field. Commercial gaming is essentially anything that can make you money or deal with money. I guess a lot of people can sort of have an idea lah kan. Homebrew or underground games can probably fit into this category as well.

Research gaming is a very, very big and fairly new field that you can go into (and a lot of fun as well). This includes stuff like interaction design, New Media (the name of the field, not media-media yang baru), social computing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, etc etc. Basically any experimental stuff comes from here first. Erm like for example games like Killer 7 is what you see in this field. The bad thing about this field is that it is not really stable; it fluctuates a lot. One day you see people bising2 about New Media, then tomorrow senyap oledi. Or just 'silly' stuff like new research papers on a game-related topic. One subsect of this field is the popular political games section, where people create games to make a political stand (like the london bombings, or Christian games for example) and THOUSANDS of people play these games daily, so you can become very famous for "simple" games like this

Some companies that create (or publish) games in Malaysia:

GameBrains

Sherman3d

Phoenix Games

MiniMax (new one)

Gameflier

TerraICT

Dragonback Games

UnrealMind- Mobile games

If you wanna meet people from the local industry, I'd suggest you to look out for the IGDA Malaysian Chapter meeting @ Souled Out Cafe, Desa Sri Hartamas. It's not really formal meeting la, just lepak2 wan.

EVENTS:

Zzap!, a gaming 'festval' organised by LimKokWing Cyberjaya will be held from 15-21 August @ Cyberjaya lah. Go lah if you guys are free.

The 2005 Asian Game Developers Summit will be held near MidValley Megamall on the 10th and 11th October. Registration costs RM225. If you wanna meet guys from Valve, NeverwinterNights 2, Shadowbane, then I think RM225 is a very very good deal ah.

The 2005 Game Developer's Game Career Guide is out. It costs US$6 to buy the digital version.

LOCAL GAMES EDUCATION:

Multimedia University (Cyberjaya) - Bachelor of Multimedia (BMM) Degree in Software Engineering And Game Design

Lim Kok Wing Univeristy College - Diploma in Games Design

APIIT - Higher Diploma in Computer Systems & B.Sc. (Hons) in Computing with specialism in Multimedia

COURSES AND CONFERENCES

Microsoft On-Demand Webcast series - Videogame Development: Learn to Write C# The Fun Way. This is a FREE course done in association with the world-famous DigiPen Institute, and it's FREE! You get Visual C# 2005 Express program, the source codes, and the .wmv webcasts.

GameProgramming - FREE game programming course. Class starts 24th August 2005 so register quick!

The Education Arcade's 2005 Games in Education Conference - Held in conjunction with the last 2005 E3Expo (video torrents available)

GAME DESIGN & PROGRAMMING RESOURCES

Visual Studio 2005 Express - FREE & excellent IDE for all kinds of languages

GameDev - Game programming & design big daddy site

Game Programming Wiki - VB, C, C++, .Net, Java

32Bits - Excellent DirectX & MFC Tutorials

Visual Basic + DirectX Multimedia Programming Resource - DirectX7,8,9 + VB

GAME MODELLING & ANIMATION RESOURCES

Blender3D - Excellent FREE modelling software with video tutorials

Zbrush Central - Award-winning modelling program + big community and beginner tutorials

Digital-tutors - Some beginner video tutorials for multimedia programs such as Maya, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc.

SPECIALISED GAME ENGINE'S RESOURCES

Neverwinter Nights engine tutorials @ NWVault

Unreal Engine tutorials @ 3dbuzz

Amit’s Game Programming Information - Excellent one-stop page for algorithms

SexyAppFAQ - Great resources for the free, tested and reliable PopCap Games Framework

Kaneva Game Platform - The FREE toolkit (3DSMax-compatible), video tutorials and source codes

Microsoft + Valve: Coding4Fun - Half-Life 2 Mod Spot

Valve's Developer Community

Interlopers.net - 150+ Half-life 2 Engine Tutorials

Ogre3D - Commercial-grade, open-source graphics engine

Wintermute Engine - Free point&click game engine

DESIGNERS' SITES AND BLOGS

EPIC's CliffyB Blog: Check out his "How to get Hired" article!)

Kieron Gillen's Workblog: How to Abuse Game Journalists (for publicity)

ea_spouse's blog: EA: The Human Story

Grimwell's The Colonies - the MMOG that was never made

Ron Gilbert's Grumpy Gamer - from the creator of the Monkey Island series

A couple of links on game development and/or research that I can think of right now:

How did you get your start in the video game industry? - A great Gamasutra article!

IGDA Malaysian Chapter forum

Ludology - Videogame Theory & Research

WaterCoolerGames - Politics, Education, anything non-entertainment in gaming

Gamasutra - game industry news and articles

Game Development Search Engine

Eurosis and Game-On Conference

Malaysia Game Developers Community (MyGDC) - Mostly MMU students

SourceForge - Great place to find open-source programs and games and game engines

Malaysian INdependent Developers Community - For general developers, backed by Microsoft

OpenAL - Cross-platform 3D audio API

I'll update this post if you guys have more links or events or stuff or whatever ask me if you guys got any questions related to game course annd I'll try to answer as much as I can & know.

Edited September 16, 2005 by C-Fu