Language Agnostic

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Language Agnostic tutorials are independent of programming language, and may be helpful to you no matter which language you prefer. These tutorials may contain language-specific source code (as long as it is easily readable), but pseudo-code is strongly preferred.

Tutorials

Getting Started

• An Introduction to Becoming a Game Programmer

Game Design

• An Introduction to Designing a Game

Algorithms

• Flag Variables & Toggles
• "Framing Buffer" Tile Scrolling Algorithm
• Basic game timing
• About 2D RPG Maps
• Saving RPG Maps to Files
• RPG Character Movement
• Selecting objects by drawing a 'Lasso'
• Collision detection for 2d polygons
• Ray Triangle Intersection
• Consistent speed regardless of FPS
• Implementing a Heat Seeking Missile
• Object Selection Using Unique Color IDs
• Programming Turn Based Movement
• Optimizing Your Online Game Bandwidth
• Lexical scanner for parsing characters into token

Artificial Intelligence

• A* Pathfinding Algorithm
• Genetic Algorithm
• Neural Networks
• Rule-Based-AI

Physics / Math / Transformations

• Linear Interpolation
• 3D Matrix Transformations - Very helpful understanding how Matrix Transformations work.
• Backface Culling
• Vector Math
• Numbering Systems
• Tangents to Circles and Ellipses

Graphics

• Faster Ray Traced Terrain Shadow Maps
• Generating Mesh Shadows On Terrain Using OpenGL
• Screen Transition Effects How to get from Screen A to Screen B in the most flashy way possible.
• Sky boxes
• ZBuffer Tutorial

User Interface Design

• A Method of Mouse Cursor Magnetism

Art Creation

• Creating Textures, Part I
• Creating Textures Using A 3D Application
• Creating Seamless Tiles and Textures
• A Comparison of Modelling Programs Blender and Silo

External Links

Algorithms

• The Game Loop - An overview of game loop implementations

Artificial Intelligence

• Game AI for Developers at AiGameDev.com
• AI Junkie
• AI-Depot
• Artificial intelligence at Wikipedia
• Game AI
• generation5

Graphics

• Homebuild terrain engine - A decent article about terrain generation and rendering.
• 2d randomly generated terrain for Worms style game A simple but effective technique for creating 2D terrain.
• Procedural Planet - A in-depth article about how to create code+datasructures for a planet-sized sphere by Andrew True, also replicated on his home page
• How Tilemaps Work, How Sprites Work Interesting high-level discussions of common tile graphic techniques.
• Writing Your Own 2D Map Editor A primer on creating and using 2D map files.

Math & Physics

• Open Dynamics Engine
• Mathworld
• Matrices explained nicely
• Hypergraph, a large graphics-related mathematics resource
• Excellent physics/math/simulation tutorials

Physics / Math / Transformations

• Kineticbook sample chapters - A great resource for formulas related to physics.
• Vectors - Part One - A brief introduction to vectors.
• Vectors - Part Two - Covers useful operations with vectors.