Resources

Blogs

Amit's Game Programming Information
Amit Patel

Lost Garden
Daniel Cook

Designer's Notebook
Ernest Adams

Designer Notes
Soren Johnson

Fun In Games
Raph Koster

Twenty Sided
Shamus Young

Gamasutra
compendium

Tuts Plus
compendium

GameDev
compendium

Game Studies
compendium

Books

Game Engine Architecture
Jason Gregory

Game Programming Patterns
Robert Nystrom

A Theory of Fun
Raph Koster

Game Mechanics
Ernest Adams, Joris Dormans

Game Feel
Steve Swink

Articles

• The Chemistry Of Game Design - [Daniel Cook on Gamasutra]
• Techniques for Achieving Play Balance - [Tom Cadwell on GameDev]
• Tight Game Systems of Cause and Effect - [Daniel Cook on Lost Garden]
• How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days - [Kyle Gray ++ on Gamasutra]
• Evolutionary Design - [Daniel Cook on GameDev]
• Persistent Myths About Game Design - [Daniel Cook on Lost Garden]
• A Conversation with Will Wright - [Celia Pearce on Game Studies]
• Game Economics - [Soren Johnson on Designer Notes]
• New Dimensions in Storage - [Shamus Young on Twenty Sided]
• Spacecute: Extending the Verbs - [Daniel Cook on Lost Garden]
• Loops and Arcs - [Daniel Cook on Lost Garden]
• The No Twinkie Database - [Ernest Adams on Designer's Notebook]
• Why You Should Share Your Game Designs - [Daniel Cook on Lost Garden]
• The Wii Help Cat: A lesson In Interactive Design - [Daniel Cook on Lost Garden]
• 2D Collision Detection and Response (SAT) - [Metanet Software]
• Broad Phase Collision - [Metanet Software]
• GJK Collision Detection Algorithm - [Casey Muratori on Molly Rocket - Video]
• Convex Sets - [Geoff Gordon - Lecture]
• Rigid Body Kinematics - [Unknown Author]