3D Game Engine Programming
(Game Development Series) by Oliver
Duvel
Overall, A Very Decent Book
Are you interested in learning how to write your own game engines? With
3D Game Engine Programming you can do just that. Youll learn everything
you need to know to build your own game engine as a tool that is kept
strictly separate from any specific game project, making it a tool that you
can use again and again for future projects. You wont have to give a
second thought to your engine. Instead, youll be able to concentrate on
your game and the gameplay experience.
Personal Review: 3D Game Engine Programming (Game
Development Series) by Oliver Duvel
This book is for the following person: A programmer who woke up one day
and said "Wow, I'd really like to make a Game Engine. Where do I start?

How should I plan this thing out? What kinds of things do I have to
implement? What things should I be worried about?"
The code is solid, with just a few exceptions that a good programmer
should be able to catch. The author speaks German, so he'll occasionally
ramble about the war and whatnot, but overall he's a good teacher. He's
answered questions about the tiny problems with his code, but you'll have
to check out the forums at his Gaming University website (not his German
one. Unless you happen to speak German)
He doesn't go in depth into many things because his book is designed to
get you started, and show you all the steps you'll have to take in your
game-engine education. That being said, you WILL create a fully
functioning first-person shooter engine at the end of the book.
It's written at a reasonably moderate level, so I suggest that you learn
DirectX 9 and C++ ahead of time, but once you've done that you're good to
go. It provides a good bird's-eye view of the game engine process, shows
you how to make each little bit in a modular, reusable way, and puts
together a lovely result.
One of the reviews on this page suggests the purchase of the Game
Programming Gems series. Now, as nice as that series is (And it is nice),
Game Programming Gems is about tiny bits of code that make a project
more exciting. In fact, I'd have to say that Game Programming Gems has
absolutely nothing to do with Game Engine Design. Heck, it's the polar
opposite of 3D Game engine Programming. Gems are fragments- This
book is about bringing everything together.
A better suggestion would be to use the Game Programming Gems series
to make this book's engine more impressive.
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