Guide to Game Development/Theory

Categories 50% /Game logic/ The general set up that most games fit around 25% /Mathematics/ Basic Math, Vectors, Matrices, Trigonometry, Calculus, Quaternions 25% /Geometry/ The drawing of the objects in the scene, e.g. the player, enemies, terrain, boxes 0% /Transformations/ Translation, Scale, Rotation 0% /Pose/ Poses and Coordinate frames 0% /Camera/ The view-port that the game is viewed from. Perspective & Orthographic projects. 25% /Lighting/ The Lighting that's cast onto the scene. Ambient, Diffuse, Specular lighting, Normal vectors and Lightmaps. 25% /Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and Heads-up-displays (HUD)/ The menus that the user navigates and the displays that appear on top of the game to display statistics like health. 25% /Collision detection/ How all of the entities in the game collide with each other and the terrain. 25% /Physical motion/ The physics/mechanics behind the motion, forces and gravity. 0% /Textures/ How textures are loaded, stored and placed onto geometry. 0% /Shaders and Graphic pipelines/ How the geometry, camera and lighting in a scene gets processed from the scene to the screen. 0% /Artificial Intelligence/ Programming of intelligence into a computer/bot/enemy. 0% /Path Finding/ Path finding algorithms used by AI 0% /Animations/ In game animations 0% /User inputs/ How you handle user inputs and how they affect things in the game 25% /Viewing angles/ The topic of different types of game genres and how to create for that genre 25% /Miscellaneous theory/ Everything else to do with theory External Links Youtube: Math for Game Developers by Jorge Rodriguez - A Youtube series teaching you about the maths behind game development. 3D Physics Engine Tutorial by thebennybox Coding Math - A Youtube channel that links mathematics with coding. Extra Credits - A Youtube channel that discusses the theory of games and game design/development. Wikipedia: List of Mathematical Symbols 25%