game-programming

Good platformer/puzzle game implementation tutorials?

There are incredibly many platform games around but when I type platform game tutorial into a search engine I'll get horribly written flash tutorials. A curious thing because computer games have been longer around than personal computers. Have you seen properly written platform or puzzle game tutorials around that start from the blank s...

Opengl Games: Do i have to know 3d related math to create good opengl games ?

Hello. I read about OpenGL and about nvidia-cg-toolkit and other shaders, all contains lots of math problems and math formulas for effects and such. I want to be able to make proper 3d games that use the GPU as much as possible. Do I have to use a 3d Engine if the math related info does not interest me ? if so, can anyone recommend of...

game programmer portfolio

hello, i want to work as a programmer in a game modification team. Most teams require a portfolio to show. I haven't any previous experience with game programming and I would like to know what I should program and include in the portfolio Thank you ...

Where to place main game loop in android game

Hi, everyone! I am trying to write some skeleton for a game on android, using OpenGL. I would like to know, where should I place my main game loop code? So far, my best candidate is Renderer.onDrawFrame(...) method, which seems to be called per-frame, so the code looks like this: void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) { preLoopActions(); ...