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Game Development Wiki A wiki designed for game programmers by game programmers. Any person who knows about these subjects is welcome. The Wiki will have basic articles like Game programming to more advanced like C programming, DirectX, SDL and on major subjects like 3D, 2D game programming and so on. The tutorials will cover basic to advanced knowledge of SDL and DirectX game APIs. Since 12/24/07 and adopted on May 2nd 2008 by Freud2008

Contents
Main Articles Genres Compilers DirectX and all its subarticles History of videogames C for videogames C++ for videogames Java for videogames Physics Game Design and Function Libraries Game Design 101 Blitter Direct Access to Pixels Basic Artificial intelligence: Finite State Machines Advanced Artificial intelligence: Chess GameMaker Tutorials First SDL program Using SDL_TTF to render text Collision detection (making an Arkanoid game) DirectDraw DirectDraw Advanced DirectSound DirectInput DirectPlay
Featured Articles
Game programming - The main article on this wiki, it contains links to main subjects. Ray Casting - The ability to turn a 2D environment into a 3D display, to get the classic 3D-like approach used in Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
Helping out
To write a new article, just enter the title in the box below. <createbox> width=24 break=no buttonlabel=Create new article </createbox>
GDW To-Do List
Add main articles Organize a tree to find the tutorials as easily as possible. Prepare a better Table of Contents Prepare the image database to decorate articles with, from logos to examples. Assign logos

Not sure where to start?

• Find out more about the wiki on the About page.
• If you are new to wikis, check out the tutorial.
• Check out Help:Starting this wiki if you're setting up the wiki.

Adding content

• Every wiki has two list of articles that need help called "Stubs" and "Wanted Articles". Don't be shy, get in there.
• Uploading game images is another really easy way to help out - see the Special:Upload page!
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on the templates project page.

Talk and more...

• Check out the community portal to see what the community is working on, to give feedback or just to say hi.

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Any comment will be appreciated by User:Freud2008, who adopted this Wikia and is also an admin