COMPUTER GAME LINKS
Graphics &
Digital Arts
www.raph.com/3dartists
Best online exhibit of computer graphics images by professional digital
artists.
www.braid.com
Braid Media Artists. Master artists in digital media (very good)
www.3dsite.com
3D Studio MAX, Maya, modeling and animation site.
www.vfxpro.com
Visual Effects Professionals. Official industry site for film and visual
effects development.
Programming
www.gamasutra.com
Best all-around game developers site on the net.
Tutorials, tips, algorithms, company links, forums.
www.programmersheaven.com
Great general site for programming. Many samples.
www.siggraph.org
SIGGRAPH Compute Graphics publications
www.graphicsgems.org
Excellent short coding tips for graphics programming
www.opengl.org
Official home site for Open GL. Tutorials, links, etc.
www.scorpioncity.com/dj1.html
Good detailed tutorial on DirectX
nehe.gamedev.net
Ne(on) He(lium) OpenGL game tutorials.
Excellent well documented tutorials on every aspect of OpenGL
www.flipcode.com
Game development resources. Large collection of tutorials and archived
forums.
www.globalserve.net/~kjiao/cgp/gfx_c.html
GFX Graphics Programming. More sophisticated graphics algorithms. Descriptive.
Gaming Industry
www.fatbabies.com
Inside forums by developers in the game industry. Discusses artist-programmer
relations, etc.
gamespot.com
Gamespot magazine. Good general site on computer games for non-developers.
Industry news.
Computer Game History
"Hackers" by Steven Levy (book $14)
An Essential History of the Early Wizards of Computer Games.
(Note: 'hackers' is used here in its more classical 60s meaning as a person
who is an advanced, programming wizard, and not the modern media-modified
version: a person who engages in illegal systems entry)
gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/
Good detailed year-by-year history of computer games.
www.digital-eel.com/hcg/index2.htm
History of computer games. Pictures! Skips most of the 70s. Good site
on post-80s games.
(This list compiled by Rama C. Hoetzlein, 2002).