Programming Linux Games Available Online 32
Newtonian_p writes "The LaTeX source and a PDF file of the book Programming Linux Games by Loki Software and John R. Hall has been released online. According to Happy Penguin, it is not available under a free documentation license and is for personnal use only. Get it from one of these mirrors."
Thanks for the book (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe there's a new law on the internet: Everything will be free if you wait long enough.
Re: Thanks for the book (Score:5, Funny)
> Maybe there's a new law on the internet: Everything will be free if you wait long enough.
Excepting Steamboat Willie.
what an amazing coinkidink (Score:3, Insightful)
Perhaps this will be my chance to make doing graphics directly a workable idea. Thanks to whoever posted this story and thanks to the author for making this free on the web. If it turns out to be the reference I hope it will be, they have just netted themselves another sale!
Re:what an amazing coinkidink (Score:2)
Why a book? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why a book? (Score:2, Informative)
Because the source to Tux racer maybe very informative in terms of a racing game, it may not help in making a flight simulator, or a platform sidescroller, or a FPS...you get the idea. The book presumably [slashdot.org] provides a good overview of programming games, issues specefic to Linux, design, implentation, and all that other good bs. The source code to tuxracer might be able to tell you how, but hopefully this book (which I haven't read) tells you why
Re:Why a book? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Why a book? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why a book? (Score:1, Redundant)
overcode (Score:2)
ty overcode
can you sign the printed version of the pdf
Re:overcode (Score:2)
Re:overcode (Score:1)
But I really appreciate the release of the book. I had thought about purchasing it recently, but like a poster above, it hasn't reached the top of my list yet.
This will let me get started looking at it and purchase it when it does make the top of my list. It likely will still reach the top of my list within the next couple of months.
Re:overcode (Score:1)
Servers Bursting into Flames (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Servers Bursting into Flames (Score:4, Informative)
Hey, the more the better... but I wasn't expecting nearly that much traffic. The box has been
-John
free CS department printing (Score:5, Funny)
Page 433 of 433.
I hope I sent it to the right printer.
Definatly an Anonymous Coward
Re:free CS department printing (Score:3, Informative)
-John
Re:free CS department printing (Score:1)
Re:free CS department printing (Score:2)
-John
Re:free CS department printing (Score:1, Informative)
Re:free CS department printing (Score:1)
Assuming, of course, that it's in the discount section..
I have the dead tree version. (Score:3, Informative)
It got me started into SDL programming.
If you are looking to get started with SDL this is the best intro I have seen.
SDL's great for Linux (Score:5, Informative)
In addition to being fully cross-platform, it supports events, audio, basic thread-creation, and has wrapper libraries around it for C++.
One of the best SDL tutorials I've seen (for Windows) is here [gamedev.net], but there's great Linux stuff available too, and it also runs on BeOS, MacOS & MacOS X.
If you'd like to get up to speed on Linux (and other platforms') games programming quickly and you've got C or C++ skills, do yourself a favor and check this out!
Programming OS X Games Available Online... (Score:3, Informative)
Cheers overcode!
review wanted (Score:2)
Great... (Score:2, Funny)