Carl Granberg

Hello people,

If you're reading this message then I'm already dead and you are the last survivors of a cataclysmic event of unimaginable proportions...

Too bad that makes my books more or less useless… Well, not quite I guess. You could always light a fire with them or use them as insulation during the coming fallout winters. What do I care? I’m already dead...

Alright... All jokes aside. If you’ve found this page then I guess that you are more or less like me… A nerd. Don’t feel bad though (at least not for very long). There will come a time when the nerds will rule the earth (see ‘Daemon’ & ‘Freedom™’ by Daniel Suarez). While you’re waiting for that glorious day, you might as well enjoy some light reading.

If you want to start off with some good and proper Game Development, I’d recommend you start with Frank Luna’s ‘Introduction to 3D Game Programming’ comes both for DX9 & 10.

After you’re comfortable with the basics I’d highly recommend the earlier books in the ‘Game Programming Gems’ series. The later ones are ok too, but the best stuff is in the early books (in my own humble opinion). These books will prove invaluable to you as reference material years after you’ve bought them.

Then if you feel so inclined do try out my books as well. They are a bit of the ‘skip-the-meat-and-go-straight-for-the-pudding’ variety. I usually try to keep the ‘theoretic’ parts (read boring) as light as possible and cover the stuff that you might actually care about. If I were you I’d read the RTS book before the animation book. Even though the RTS book is a bit dated, there’s still a lot of core concepts covered in that book that you’ve have a lot of use for during you game development projects. You probably won’t have any use of the sound or the networking part of that book though since the API’s have changed so much since the book was written. People have been bugging me to make an updated second edition of that one... But again, I’ll rather skip to the pudding as well and write something new instead.

You can find out some more about the books at www.cjgraphic.com, you can also reach me at carl(at)cjgraphic(dot)com should you want to.

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