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# Game Design and Game Development Resources This page lists useful resources that can explain how to design games in general. It also lists resources for a specific subtopic of game design, the structure of the game's code. Try to divide this page with useful subheadings that group the links. ## Story Design * The master himself on "Fairy Stories" (sic): J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories (1939). In: C.S. Lewis (editor), Essays presented to Charles Williams. William B. Eerdmans Pub., Grand Rapids 1947. * Easier to find reprint: J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf. George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, London 1964. ISBN: 0 04 820015 8. * [English Wikipedia summary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Fairy-Stories), [German Wikipedia summary](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Fairy-Stories). Reading the original is recommended, but Tolkien's English is very elaborate and for a non-native speaker quite challenging. There's a German translation around somewhere, but Tolkien heavily draws from language specifics, thus the essay cannot really be fully understood in another language than English. ## Code Design ### Game coding * [Robert Nystrom, Game Programming Patterns](http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/) (web version is free of charge, consider buying the hardcopy) * OpenGL tutorial: https://learnopengl.com/ * [HN discussion on enemy pathfinding](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22848106) * [Generating organic patterns with L-systems](https://jsantell.com/l-systems/) * [Small study on small custom game engines](https://gist.github.com/raysan5/909dc6cf33ed40223eb0dfe625c0de74) * [This person wrote a custom C++ game engine from OpenGL scratch in 30 weeks with a team size of 11 persons](https://www.undefinist.com/hydeandseek) * [Background on programmatical colour handling](https://peteroupc.github.io/colorgen.html) * [GameMode](https://jonathancarter.org/2020/08/11/gamemode-in-debian/), sets various OS configuration parameters on Linux while a game is running * [Efficient memory management with handles instead of pointers](https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html) ([lobste.rs discussion](https://lobste.rs/s/4xcla1/handles_are_better_pointers)) * [Ray Tracing in One Weekend](https://raytracing.github.io/) ### Coding in general * If you need to refresh your C++ knowledge: [learncpp.com](https://www.learncpp.com/) * Stay up to date with latest C++ concepts by following [lobste.rs on C++](https://lobste.rs/t/c++) * How to properly organise C++ header files: [Kieras, C++ Header File Guidelines (2015)](http://www.umich.edu/~eecs381/handouts/CppHeaderFileGuidelines.pdf) * Highly recommended article on API design: [Henning, acmqueue 2007/4, 24: API Design Matters](https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1255422) (PDF available) ## Dungeon design * [Dungeon map generator](https://dungeonscrawl.com/) * [Hobbyist creating a modded dungeon for an existing game, quite interesting read](https://blog.tcharles.fr/for-a-better-dungeon/) ## World design * [Lighting tutorial](http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light01.htm) ## Miscellaneous - [Monastery Plan of St. Gall](http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/list/one/csg/1092). This plan dates to the 9th century and gives the ideal form of a monastery. [English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_Saint_Gall), [German Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Galler_Klosterplan) - [Passauer Kunst](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passauer_Kunst) (“Art of Passau”) Superstitional believe in the Middle Ages that certain papers from the city of Passau could make you invulnerable. - [British Museum's Historical Travel Guide to Edo](https://blog.britishmuseum.org/historical-city-travel-guide-edo-tokyo-early-19th-century/). The [Tōkaidō](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D) may serve as inspiration for our fantasy world's most important street. - [Montezuma's headdress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma%27s_headdress), a featherwork crown of unknown history from the Aztec empire.