COSC 3550
PROGRAMMING COMPUTER GAMES
Neat Sites


This page links to various interesting sites that are somehow related to Computer Games.

Homemade Hero
Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code. Thanks to Andrew Peacock for this great find.

The game development page at tuts+
Mark Schlottke recommended this great site for a variety of game topics. In particular, he liked the explanation of quadtrees.

Global Game Jam 2016
Global Game Jam is an annual event where groups all over the world work for 48 hours solid to write games. This page has some of the games from the 2016 Jam.

FreeSound.org
An amazing collection of sound effect recordings. Great classification, search features, etc. Click on the "Sounds" tab.

sodaconstructor
Another e-toy. This site (found by Kevin Idzi) is a great example of simulated physics at work.

Java on the Brain
Karl Hoernell is a programmer in Sweden who writes some very nice Java games. While that would be worth knowing just by itself, he makes it even better by putting them up on a beautiful website with lots of background commentary regarding game design and technical problems and solutions.

gamedev.net
Articles, Forums, Blogs, useful links.

Gamasutra
General game industry news and updates. Includes job listings.

Map Generation
Dozens of algorithms for map/maze (i.e. virtual world/game world) generation (Found by Andrew Lijewski).

DOS Games Archive
An impressive collection of DOS games, many of which are playable at this site.


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