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Theory and Practice of making games - I used to write this

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59 pointsEGreg14 comments

Have any communities taken up the charge since Flipcode died? It was an amazing resource of great value. I haven't seen anything else quite like it.

There is Gamasutra. But I find it too heavily focussed on the industry and not enough on the practice. They don't offer enough technical, practical, working material. It's primarily a discussion of ideas and theories.

I'd love to see something like Flipcode alive on the web today, in this climate of do-it-yourself games as apps. The market is open like never before to the insurgent developer, no longer in the exclusive purview of mega-companies.

A friend of mine writes http://www.hobbygamedev.com - Interesting articles about game development - some on a technical "this code accomplishes this task" level, and some on a more theoretical "what is a game" level

You can try gamedev.net's articles and resources section: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/

Nice work! Flipcode was a regular reference of mine back in the day, it's a shame it died out.

Hehe, thanks guys. I must admit I'm kind of liking my irreverent style of writing back in those days. I think I should bring it back.

By the way, I never actually tackled girls on steroids: http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_06_Ev...

flipcode was the first site I ran into that really had good programming information. For some reason, undoubtably silly, I never 100% grooved with gamedev/gamasutra.

Ah well. The wheel turns.

Great resources, I remember Flipcode fondly (if fuzzily) from 3D game engine dabbling in the past.

I think it would be really interesting to see a reappraisal of these articles from a '10 years later' perspective, to see how the state of the art has (or hasn't) progressed.

Augh! Nice work EGreg, I hadn't run across this before. I'm reading them and I'm so sad there aren't more. Just finished Landscape I and I've been left wanting more.

So... Pretty please? :-)

Thanks man. These days I am working more on http://myownstream.com/

Have you checked out http://thinkupapp.com/

heh, now I have. I am building something a little more ... extensive :)

Nice to see you HN Greg..what game platforms are you programming for now?

I am getting into 2d/3d games on the android platform and at some point maybe iphone

Well, right now I'm working hard on a social network that I hope will change the world. It's a distributed social network with total control over your data and privacy. And it also helps you make plans for dinner :)

It's a distributed social network with total control over your data and privacy

Typo or joke?

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