Book Suggestions!

[Forrest Shooster]

So to those of you interested in cool books about game development I have a few here for you:

So, just to get you all started:

AUDIO:
- Audio Programming for Interactive Games by Martin D. Wilde

- Designing Audio Effect Plug-ins in C++ by Will Pirkle

- The Complete Guide to Game Audio by Aaron Marks

GAME ENGINE / AI PROGRAMMING:

- Artificial Intelligence for Games by Ian Millington + John Funge

- 2D Game Collision Detection 

(Literally being sold now for only the cost of a tweet on twitter, get it before they change their minds! http://www.collisiondetection2d.net/)

[FOR THE HARDCORE PROGRAMMERS]

- Real-Time Collision Detection by Christer Ericson

LEARNING NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BOOKS:

- Absolute Beginner's Guide to C by Greg Perry

- HTML&CSS: design and build websites by Jon Duckett

- Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot by Michael Kolling
(for learning java programming basics: keep in mind you should also learn how to use eclipse)

- HTML5 Canvas: For Games and Entertainment by Rob Hawkes

[FOR THE HARDCORE PROGRAMMERS]

- ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham

Feel free to post in the forum any other recommendations you may have for other members!:

[Andrew Litfin]

One book that has been recommended to me by several people is A Theory of Fun for Game Design, by Raph Koster.  I'm currently reading it and it's pretty interesting!

[RGDC Admin]

Yeah, my roommate recommended that to me as well. Its on my list of "Things I Need to Read"