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The journey continues with this ALL NEW volume in the Game Programming Gems series! As with the first two volumes, a dynamic group of some of the best game programmers in the industry have generously joined together to share their insights and techniques. Their ready-to-use ideas, tips, and solutions, will help save hours of programming time, prevent redundancy, and leave you with more time to add cutting-edge features to your own games. Covering all the key areas of game development, this invaluable resource delves deep into the problems often encountered by programmers, and provides practical, valid solutions. Each section is edited by an expert in the field to ensure that the ideas are original, accurate, and useful for a variety of game development projects. In addition to covering Mathematics, Graphics, General Programming, Audio, and Artificial Intelligence, Game Programming Gems 3 also includes an all new section on Network and Multiplayer games. This is a must-have reference, and series, for every game developer. If you are just getting started, this book offers a true cross-section of the challenges youíll face, and provides a variety of additional references to help you find all the resources you need to advance your skills and knowledge. If youíre an expert already, youíll find new ideas and techniques to help save plenty of valuable programming time.
About the Author
Dante Treglia is the Lead Software Engineer at Nintendo of America's Software Development Support Group where he supports the Nintendo GameCube development community.
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July 5 2003
Format:Hardcover
I've noticed several scathing reviews from folks who admit in the review that they aren't even game programmers. Am I missing something? How in the world could this book be at all useful or interesting to someone who admittedly has no interest in programming games? Unbelievable.
For anyone specifically interested in actually using this book to develop games, you're going to get your money's worth.
For Beginner Programmers ONLY!
May 9 2003
Format:Hardcover
The Game Programming Gems books are fat and full of good ideas. Unfortunately, these ideas are only really useful to beginning programmers; anyone who has programmed seriously for more than two years will know 90% of the material in the book series.
The remaining 10% of the book is remarkably good, with innovative ideas on how to approach problems. But Charles River Media decided to lengthen the book with such trivialities as how to use the C++ Standard Library and using Direct3D. Most of the material in the GPG series is covered better, and in more depth in other books which don't have the word "game" in their title.
The remaining 10% of the book is remarkably good, with innovative ideas on how to approach problems. But Charles River Media decided to lengthen the book with such trivialities as how to use the C++ Standard Library and using Direct3D. Most of the material in the GPG series is covered better, and in more depth in other books which don't have the word "game" in their title.
Valuable resource for those in the trenches
Feb 16 2003
Format:Hardcover
For anyone who actually works as a game programming professional, I'd highly recommend this book. Those of you looking for general-purpose interesting programming tidbits, try one of Scott Meyer's books instead, which I'd recommend to ANY C++ programmer, not game programmers.
One thing to note: I've heard claims (regarding this and previous books in the series) that these books are simply pre-existing articles pulled from the web and other sources and packed into a collection to be resold. This is nonsense - every article in the book was submitted by programmers, and was exclusively commissioned and paid for by the publisher for use in this series. You won't find these articles floating around on the net. Moreover, because these articles are commissioned, peer-reviewed, and professional edited, the overall quality is much higher than random articles found on the net.
Overall, this book, and the entire series for that matter, gets my highest recommendation. You're naturally not going to find every article or topic useful or relevant, but if you're actually in the trenches, the likelyhood of finding at least one article that really helps you out is likely high. In my experience, simply finding one really valuable article is worth the price of the book alone.
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I gotta slam this book
I now have all three of them. OK, first two were borderline acceptable, meaning the ratio of anything exoteric to programming trivialities (like loading DLLs explicitly) was, in my... Read more
Published on Jan 1 2003 by John Doe
GP3 does not worth the money
I pre-order this book before release. I'm not a game programmer but I work in software programming/design for 13y
The book is much worst than the GPG1 GPG2. Read more
The book is much worst than the GPG1 GPG2. Read more
Published on Oct 26 2002
Exceedingly valuable
While Gems 1 will always have a special place in my heart, this book solidly builds on the foundation of Gems 1 & 2. Read more
Published on Sep 6 2002 by Winchell D. Chung
Normally, I don't write reviews..
While normally, I don't write reviews, I HAVE to disagree with a previous review on this.. Someone wrote the matrix calculations were wrong on "Real time UI input in 3D... Read more
Published on Aug 23 2002 by Another reader
Game Programming Gems3 tech value.
As game developer i pre-ordered GPG3 months before release of the book. I read most of the book articles and i think the book has less quality than GPG1 and GPG2. Read more
Published on Aug 6 2002
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